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  • A blue economy investment framework

    12 May 2026

    Rolando Morillo, Emily Claire Mackey Faubel and Mark Spalding present a practitioner's guide to ocean engagement in public equities

  • Webinar: More impact data the 'tipping point' for sustainable bond issuance

    09 October 2025

    More impact data can help encourage more sustainable bond issuance, but a lack of standardisation around reporting can cause challenges for investors, an Environmental Finance webinar heard.

  • Mirova: 'If blended finance doesn't scale soon, we'll have to pull our focus'

    23 September 2025

    If blended finance cannot scale in the next five years, Mirova may have to reconsider its future in the sector, and expects other mainstream asset managers will be in a similar position, an OECD event has heard.

  • OECD updates guidelines for blended finance 'cottage industry'

    22 September 2025

    The OECD has published its second iteration of guidelines for blended finance, which it argued remained a "cottage industry" lacking in scale and standardisation.

  • Strategic asset allocation in emerging markets

    10 April 2025

    Unlocking private capital for impact investing in EMDEs requires a fundamental rethink of how risk, return, and impact are evaluated, write Mike Sebastian, Royston Braganza, Simon Cooke, Sindhu Krishna, Tim Streeter and Callum Thomas.

  • Mobilising private finance to address the biodiversity crisis

    31 March 2025

    Evidence of private sector momentum in scaling biodiversity funding is increasing, but not fast enough, write Frank Rijsberman, Juan Casado Asensio and Dominique Blaquier

  • Blended finance in fragile contexts: Ukraine as a test case

    27 March 2025

    An OECD and Environmental Finance conference discussed the role of blended finance in crises and conflict-affected contexts, using Ukraine as an example. Romina Bandura and Emilia Stazi summarise

  • Unlocking local currency finance: The EBRD's SME local currency programme

    04 March 2025

    The development bank's programme is helping to strengthen financial markets, writes Thea Kokhreidze and Callum Thomas

  • Disasters and currency risk: implications for development and climate finance

    21 February 2025

    Foreign exchange risk is a development risk, and tackling it should be a core pillar of global efforts to build resilience in disaster-prone economies, write Ulrich Volz, Yuen Lo, Harald Hirschhofer and Callum Thomas

  • SLBs: 'Flight to quality' amid complexity challenge could be a positive

    12 February 2025

    The underappreciated complexity of the sustainability-linked bond (SLB) has played a major role in the issuance decline in recent years, but...