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Press Release: GuarantCo and British International Investment Partner to Unlock US$500 Million of New Renewable Power for South Africa With Landmark $100 Million Etana Energy Deal
This innovative type of deal is designed to unlock new renewable energy capacity by providing independent power producers (IPPs) with the revenue certainty they need to break ground on new renewable energy projects.
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- Energy, Environment
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Catalytic Climate Finance Facility Awards USD 2 Million to New Cohort of Blended Finance Vehicles
The CC Facility will grant the selected five grantees USD 2 million to test, structure, launch, and expand solutions.
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- Energy, Environment, Investing
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- Global
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ADB Partners With MSEL To Build 20-MW Solar Power Plant In Bangladesh
The funding includes a $15.5 million loan from ADB and an $8.8 million loan from the Leading Asia’s Private Infrastructure Fund 2.
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- Energy, Technology
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- Asia Pacific
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Subsidy and Synergy: How Philanthropy Can Complement Impact Investing More Effectively
The original goal of impact investing was to build out the funding spectrum between philanthropy and commercial investment. But according to Asad Mahmood at SIMA and Nanno Kleiterp, the arrival of private equity firms — promising scale and market-rate financial returns — has pulled all the sector's energy toward the commercial end of the spectrum. They explore the key role philanthropic subsidy has played in the development of emerging markets business, clarify some misconceptions about its role in impact investing, and propose some ways philanthropists and impact investors can better align their efforts.
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- Energy, Finance, Investing, Social Enterprise
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From Baku To The Amazon: Eyes On COP30 As COP29 Disappoints
The meeting’s theme was “In Solidarity for a Green World,” and culminated with the adoption of an agreement that brought incremental progress in climate finance and mitigation goals.
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Business Seeks Details in Face of Mixed COP29 Climate Messages
While private sector investment was teased throughout the summit - including in a multilateral development bank pledge to mobilise $65 billion of it each year - the devil will be in the details.
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Analysis: COP29 Outcomes: Reversal of Hard-Won Gains Creates an Opportunity for the Private Sector to Step up and Lead
While some progress was made at COP29, this year’s COP is viewed as a reversal in ambition, as there was no agreement on phasing out of fossil fuels, and the new climate finance goal of USD 300 billion annually by 2035, is viewed as largely inadequate.
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- Energy, Environment
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TotalEnergies Pauses Investments in India’s Adani Group After Bribery Charges
The crisis is the second in two years to hit the Adani group, which was last year accused by short seller Hindenburg Research of improperly using offshore tax havens. The company denied those claims.
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- Energy
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- Global
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- governance, regulations, solar
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