ESG Today

JULY 19, 2023

Barclays announced a series of new senior appointments to its Sustainable and Sustainable and Impact Investment Banking (SIB) team, including Arnoud Boksteijn as Managing Director, Cindy Quan as a Director and Head of Americas ESG Advisory, and Bogdan Oprea as a Director.

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3BL Media

MAY 24, 2022

The report is part of the Ceres Food Emission 50 initiative, an effort focused on decarbonizing the nation’s food sector. Decarbonizing the U.S. degrees," said Mary Beth Gallagher, Director of Engagement at Domini Impact Investments. “It SOURCE: Ceres. by the end of the decade.

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Impact Alpha

JULY 5, 2024

Those industrial processes, which rely on high heat generated by fossil fuels, are notoriously difficult to decarbonize. The post Low-carbon cement and solar-powered steam startups tackle decarbonization with new funding appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Major Emitters Progressing on Climate Goals, But Lagging on Decarbonization Strategies: CA100+. ESG Investing. Impact Investing Passes $1 Trillion for First Time: Report. BlackRock Launches ESG Bond Fund with £500 Million Investment from Scottish Widows. London Stock Exchange Launches Voluntary Carbon Market.

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Impact Alpha

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The post With catalytic climate financing, Energy Department looks to demonstrate, deploy and decarbonize appeared first on ImpactAlpha. ImpactAlpha, Sept. 28 – “We’re the government and we’re here to help.” The Department of Energy is trying to turn the old punchline.

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Impact Alpha

MAY 29, 2024

The post Clean Energy Ventures raises $305 million for second decarbonization fund appeared first on ImpactAlpha. The oversubscribed round for Clean Energy Venture’s second climate tech fund was a third higher than its initial $200 million target. Investors in.

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Impact Alpha

MARCH 2, 2023

Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: Conference Circuit Regeneration and risk-taking: Overheard at the Latin American Impact Investing Forum. The post The Brief: Regeneration and risk-taking at FLII, decarbonizing food, green hydrogen, Egyptian fintech, clean energy acquisition appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Impact Alpha

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Seaweed-based biofibers to decarbonize global fashion. Biodegradable plastics made from invasive sargassum. Water-insulated panels and nature-based construction materials. Women-led companies from Mexico to. The post Female founders power climate entrepreneurship in Latin America appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

TPG Rise Climate, the climate investing strategy of TPG’s global impact investing platform, TPG Rise, announced today the acquisition of industrial aftermarket emissions reduction solutions provider Miratech, citing opportunities to address the emissions challenge created by growing power demand from increasing data center usage.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 15, 2025

M&Gs impact investing unit responsAbility Investments announced today that it has raised over $350 million for its Asia Climate Strategy, aimed at actively contributing to CO2 reduction in Asia through targeted investments in low-emission technologies.

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ESG Today

AUGUST 8, 2023

Barclays announced today the appointment of James Edmonds as Global Head of Sustainable Project Finance in its Corporate and Investment Bank, leading a project finance team focused on helping clients transition to net zero.

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ESG Today

JUNE 29, 2023

The firm said that the newly created role reflects the critical role that sustainable investment and decarbonization will play in driving future client returns.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 22, 2024

As the world increasingly focuses on financing reduced emissions, we provide decision-useful climate and nature data and analytics that enable firms to make more informed, impactful investment decisions. For investors that engage in decarbonization, there are automated tools to track these engagements for sustainability report.

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Impact Alpha

JANUARY 20, 2022

20 – The New York-based venture firm has made a name investing in ready-to-deploy technologies that help its energy and industrial. The post Energy Impact Partners raises $200 million to target industrial decarbonization appeared first on ImpactAlpha. ImpactAlpha, Jan.

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ESG Today

APRIL 12, 2024

Freier joined Barclays in 2021, and prior to her current role was most recently serving as Global Co-Head of Sustainable and Impact Investment Banking (SIB). Freier will work alongside ETG in EMEA Co-Head Marie Freier.

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The survey found that around two thirds of investors believe that private asset investing will offer the best opportunities to target key trends such as the energy transition or impact investing, as well as to help achieve diversification goals.

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ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

According to La Banque Postale, the new impact debt fund, classified as Article 8 under the SFDR regulation, will provide long-term support for projects that make a substantial contribution to mitigating climate change or are committed to decarbonizing their operations. It will be deployed over a three-year period.

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ESG Today

AUGUST 5, 2024

M&G plc’s impact investing unit responsAbility Investments announced today that it has raised over $200 million for its climate investment strategy for Asia at the fund’s second closing, including a $100 million investment from M&G’s Life business.

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ESG Today

MARCH 9, 2023

Launched in 2001 as part of TPG’s impact investing platform TPG Rise, TPG Rise Climate invests in companies that can enable carbon aversion in a quantifiable way, in areas including clean energy, enabling solutions, decarbonized transport, greening industrials, and agriculture and natural solutions.

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ESG Today

AUGUST 2, 2023

Demand for low carbon steel is expected to increase significantly, over the next several years, as manufacturers globally aim to decarbonize their supply chains. The global steel industry accounts for 7-9% of global CO2 emissions today, which creates a massive opportunity for Hybar to drive decarbonization at scale.”

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ESG Today

JULY 20, 2023

New investors joining the funding round included Innovation Development Oman Investments, Vopak Ventures, and investors represented by impact investing advisory firm Sagana. Our technology can play a key role in enabling humanity to address the urgency of climate change without waiting until 2030.”

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

This commitment is strategically divided: $50 million supports nonprofit grants that empower organizations driving climate and social impact, while the other $50 million is dedicated to equity and debt investments in early-stage climate startups (Seed to Series A) and venture funds. Leading Decarbonization Across Land, Sea, and Cities.

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ESG Today

JUNE 28, 2022

The growth equity investment was led by TPG Rise Climate , the $7 billion climate investing strategy of TPG’s global impact investing platform, TPG Rise and saw participation from existing investors infrastructure investment firm Climate Adaptive Infrastructure and private equity firm Trilantic Energy Partners North America.

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The new fund aims invest in four key areas of technology supporting the achievement of net zero by 2050, including energy transition, decarbonizing industries, sustainable food & agriculture and sustainable transportation. Lightrock raised €860 million for the fund, significantly exceeding its initial €600 million target.

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Impact Alpha

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

16 – Energy Impact Partners’ Frontier Fund invests in big-bet climate startups that have proved their decarbonization technology and are poised. The post Energy Impact Partners seals $485 million early stage climate fund appeared first on ImpactAlpha. ImpactAlpha, Nov.

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Planet A has invested in 14 green-tech startups to date, with portfolio companies including supply chain decarbonization tech provider Makersite, and carbon mineralization technology company 44.01. Fridtjof Detzner, Founding Partner at Planet A, said: “Green-tech and impact investing is no longer a niche in venture capital.

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James Militzer

JANUARY 8, 2024

This year’s contest featured a strong slate of articles, covering a diverse array of topics ranging from systems change to decarbonization , in sectors that included energy , agriculture , finance and more. You can access all the articles in the contest at this link.)

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Carbon Reform’s full suite of solutions offers building managers a toolkit for decarbonizing their HVAC systems, reducing pollutants, and achieving energy savings — all critical steps for transforming the built environment. Decarbonizing the built environment is one way to support global climate ambitions and resilient ecosystems.

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ESG Today

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The announcements follow recent sustainable finance appointments at the bank, including the appointment in September of Daniel Hanna as Global Head of Sustainable Finance for the Corporate and Investment Bank, and of Marie Freier as Global Co-Head of Sustainable and Impact Investment Banking.

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3BL Media

JUNE 9, 2022

LACI selected Impact investment firm Mission Driven Finance of San Diego, California to assist with loan origination and servicing, as well as supporting underwriting. About Homecoming Capital Homecoming Capital is a climate-focused investment firm that invests in businesses that decarbonize the economy as they grow.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 21, 2021

Let's name it what it [is] and move forward," Jackie VanderBrug, head of sustainable and impact investment strategy at Bank of America, said of the blind spots companies operate with when they fail to consider gender dimensions related to business strategy. .

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James Militzer

JANUARY 22, 2025

Image credit: Pixabay You May Also Be Interested In: Missed Calls = Missed Opportunities: How Starlogik is… Making the Case for Early-Stage Impact Investing Surviving the Valley of Death: A New Funding Database Aims… Emre Eren Korkmaz is a researcher at the University of Oxford and founder-director of OCTD.

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Stanford Social Innovation

OCTOBER 5, 2023

But if you are not willing to concede any returns from your “impact” investments, your options are limited. We interviewed more than two dozen professionals with expertise in asset management, impact investment, asset allocation, and measurement. Investments in physical decarbonization are also limited in scope.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 14, 2023

“I saw the importance of this kind of community investment when, 18 years ago, Anthony and I founded then ran City Kidz Ice Cream Cafe , which incorporated a food science education laboratory that has been held up as a national model,” he continued. Now we want to put this kind of social impact investment to work at a much larger scale.”

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Impact Alpha

MARCH 20, 2023

ImpactAlpha, March 20 – Global finance is not keeping up with the urgent challenge of decarbonizing the economy and helping communities adapt to. The post Global Innovation Lab develops new financial models to tackle climate challenges in emerging markets appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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James Militzer

DECEMBER 22, 2023

As 2023 draws to a close, it’s time for NextBillion’s annual tradition: our “ Most Influential Article of the Year ” contest. We’ve been running the contest since 2012, selecting 12 of our most-read articles from the past year and inviting readers to vote for the ones that influenced their thinking the most. The contest serves three key purposes.

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James Militzer

OCTOBER 1, 2024

That’s why Save the Children Global Ventures , through our Children’s Impact Investment Fund, has invested in ATEC — a high-integrity innovator and distributor of clean cooking devices. ATEC verifies the carbon impact of its stoves by digitally measuring and recording their usage through a SIM card-enabled stove top.

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