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How Finance can help stop climate change: Green bonds

Edouard Stenger

Part of this revolution is the meteoritic growth of green bonds, which were started in 2007 by the World Bank and the European Investment Bank. If growth was slow from the first green bond issuance to 2012, things have accelerated since. Green bonds are indeed often oversubscribed due to their success.

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Announcing NextBillion’s Most Influential Articles of 2022: Vote for Your Favorite!

James Militzer

NextBillion has been running our “ Most Influential Article of the Year ” contest since 2012, selecting the 12 most-read articles we’ve published each year and inviting readers to vote for their favorites. From Impact Investing to ‘Impact-First’ Investing: 
Seven Ways Investors Can Take a Holistic Lifecycle Approach to Impact.

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Announcing NextBillion’s Most Influential Articles of 2024: Vote for Your Favorites by Jan. 5

James Militzer

Each December since 2012, we’ve selected 12 of our most-read articles from the past year, inviting readers to vote for the ones that influenced their thinking the most. As we bid farewell to an eventful year, it’s time for NextBillions annual tradition: our Most Influential Articles of the Year contest.

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Let There Be (Sun)light

Chris Hall

First founded in 2012 as a crowdfunding platform aiming to finance decentralised solar energy projects in Africa, the firm rapidly became a success story, progressively turning into a sizeable private debt management company financing renewable energy projects across emerging markets.

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Sustainable Funds Landscape?—?Highlights and Observations

Jon Hale

Sustainable Funds Universe, 2012–21 Source: Morningstar Direct. Sustainable Funds Flows and Assets, 2012–21 Source: Morningstar Direct. But just as the latter have gotten more substantive over time, so too can sustainable fund impact reports. Data as of Dec. Note: Includes funds that have been liquidated during this period.

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The 2020 GreenBiz 30 Under 30

GreenBiz

Ballen, who recently took on her new role at Indigo Ag, says her time working in the food and beverage sector shed light on "just how important agriculture is to a sustainable future and the climate change battle.". — Senior Sustainability Consultant — Climate Strategy Lead, Quantis International; San Diego. Meg Wilcox.

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Four for 2024

Chris Hall

David Grimaud, CEO, Bamboo Capital Partners, makes the case for stronger commitments to impact investing to deliver on the UN SDGs. On November 2023, the draft revised Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) standards on climate change and energy were published ahead of COP28 (the climate COP).