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Mirova Raises $171 Million at First Closing of Gigaton Fund 1 To Support Clean Energy Transition in Emerging Markets
Blended finance debt fund aims to accelerate clean energy transition in emerging markets.
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- Finance
- Region
- Global
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Switzerland Pledges 15 Million Francs to the Bamboo-UNCDF Initiative for the Least Developed Fund
The BUILD Fund is a unique investment fund in support of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in least developed and lower middle income countries (LDCs and LMICs).
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- Investing
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- Global
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Prosper Africa, Partners to Invest US $274 Million in Affordable Housing Across West Africa
The U.S. investment in Africa’s emerging markets allows West Africans greater access to homeownership.
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- Finance
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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AfricaGoGreen Fund Closes US $47 Million in New Equity Investments to Advance Climate Resilience in Africa
The funding will allow AGGF to broaden its financing for climate-friendly projects in Africa.
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- Energy
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Press Release: USAID Announces Four New Public-Private Partnerships Under the Digital Invest Program to Support Digital Finance and Internet Service Providers
This year, USAID will launch the following new partnerships, expanding and diversifying the Digital Invest portfolio.
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- Finance, Technology
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- Global
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Just Useful… Or Truly Catalytic? How Entrepreneurs Really View Catalytic Capital — And What Impact Investors Can Do About It
Much of the attention in the impact finance sector tends to go to the stewards of capital — investors, foundations and other funders — most of whom firmly believe that catalytic capital is the type of finance that entrepreneurs value most. But as Bjoern Struewer at Roots of Impact and Jed Emerson at Tiedemann point out, it's unclear if investors' assumptions about the value of catalytic capital align with entrepreneurs’ actual opinions about it. They discuss new research that explores what entrepreneurs really value in this type of financing — and how these structures might be improved.
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- Investing
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Climate-Oriented Blended Finance on the Decrease
The report found a significant decline in aggregate financing levels for climate in recent years.
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- Environment, Finance
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- Global
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- blended finance, SDGs
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Cashing In on Sustainability: A Blended Finance Program Aims to Fight Climate Change by Catalyzing SME Investment in the Peruvian Amazon
Peru has lost an average of 100,000 hectares of rainforest per year since 2006, as illicit, extractive businesses are pushing the Amazon ecosystem closer to total collapse. But as Luis Garate at USAID CATALYZE Peru and Rocio Perez Torres at Palladium point out, without access to financing, the sustainable small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that could take the place of illegal, extractive businesses are often left out of market growth. They discuss how CATALYZE is partnering with private sector financial service providers and investors to mobilize capital for sustainable SMEs in this vital region.
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- Environment, Investing
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