IMPACT

Analysis

17 December 2024

Impact awards 2024 - Personality of the year: Amar Inamdar

Amar Inamdar has emerged as a leader in unlocking climate finance for Africa.
22 November 2024

Debt-for-nature deals are 'growing very rapidly and are very scalable'

The nature financing gap remains concerningly wide, but the increasingly active debt-for-nature market offers hope that the tide is turning. Ahren Lester reports
25 October 2024

A watershed moment for impact investing in the UK?

The UK's International Investment Summit had a dedicated impact investment strand and there were numerous eye-catching commitments to allocate capital to theme, writes Kieron Boyle

News

  • Social issues should not play 'second fiddle' to environment, says Triodos chair

    20 December 2024

  • JET Charge raises AUD72m for EV charging infrastructure

    19 December 2024

  • Family offices interest for impact set to boom, says GIIN

    18 December 2024

    Family offices interest for impact set to boom, says GIIN

  • T. Rowe Price adopts SDR label for impact funds

    17 December 2024

  • Sienna launches 'first' biodiversity-focused private debt impact fund

    17 December 2024

  • ResponsAbility partners with Mongolia's Khan Bank for $15m facility

    17 December 2024

  • Define impact investing in SFDR, EU Platform says

    17 December 2024

    The EU should define impact investing so impact funds can be distinguished in an overhauled Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR), according to expert advisors mandated by the European Commission.

  • Regen ag and biodiversity form 2025 investment focus for Schroders Capital

    16 December 2024

    Natural capital, biodiversity and newer themes such as regenerative agriculture will be a bigger area of focus for Schroders Capital in 2025, Environmental Finance has learned.

  • Trump's pending market deregulation could help impact returns case, says Schroders

    16 December 2024

    More exits at attractive valuations across the across the impact investment market should prove that impact and financial returns can be delivered simultaneously, Schroders Capital has claimed, as the return of Donald Trump buoys markets.

  • Winners of the 2024 IMPACT Awards revealed

    16 December 2024

    The winners of the 2024 Environmental Finance IMPACT Awards have been named.

  • Investors invited to apply for UK govt's £100m EM climate finance facility

    12 December 2024

    The UK Government will open applications for asset managers to secure funding from its £100 million ($127.4 million) emerging markets-focused facility in the New Year.

  • Swiss impact investing platform launches

    12 December 2024

  • SFDR updates will be 2025's biggest challenge for impact VCs, says Revaia

    11 December 2024

    Compliance with any changes to the EU's Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) will be the 'biggest challenge' of the new year, a French sustainable venture capitalist has told Environmental Finance.

  • ETF Partners, ABP leads €11m funding for real estate decarb business

    11 December 2024
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Environmental Finance Impact Awards 2023

IMPACT Awards 2023

Environmental Finance's annual IMPACT awards have been announced.

A widening range of impacts

Growing comfort with the use-of-proceeds bond model is driving innovation, diversity and more granular outcomes for sustainability-oriented investors, says Stephen Liberatore of Nuveen.

Delivering impact through sustainable farming

Nuveen Natural Capital, the world's largest farmland asset manager, is rolling out its Nature Positive Farming initiative. James Little explains how it will deliver impact.

Impact project/investment of the year - real estate: Patron Capital

Created to provide secure housing for women at risk of homelessness, domestic abuse survivors, and others with complex needs in the UK, Patron Capital's Women in Safe Homes fund has raised £29 million ($36.2 million)...

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Achieving impact in private equity

This webinar will assess how a shift towards impact compares with other forms of private equity investment strategies.
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The shifting focus of pension funds

This webinar will consider how impact investment is changing the investment decisions that pension funds are making.
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The Just Transition and impact: lessons learned from Covid-19

This free webinar will consider how the transition to a low carbon economy can minimise negative impacts to people and jobs, as well as considering the effect the Covid-19 has had on just transition impact themes.
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Family offices and their approach to impact investment

This webinar will assess whether a rush of family office-managed private wealth into impact investments inevitable and how approaches to impact may differ.