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Press Release: Launch of Green Guarantee Company to Mobilise Billions in Climate Finance
Guarantees are pivotal to enable developing countries to access long-term hard currency debt financing to combat climate change.
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- Transportation
- Region
- Global
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Analysis: Tackling the Plastics Pollution Crisis by Channeling Private Capital to Projects that Reduce Plastic Waste
The new Plastic Waste Reduction-Linked Bond channels up-front financing from capital market investors looking to support plastic waste collection and recycling activities.
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- Global
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- impact bonds, waste
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Press Release: IFC and SIMA Launch $150 Million Solar Green Bond for African Solar Developers alongside Finland and GEAPP
IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, in partnership with Social Investment Managers and Advisors LLC and other financiers have reached the first close of a $150 million solar green bond, which will finance productive-use solar projects throughout Africa.
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- Energy, Environment, Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Emerging Africa Infrastructure Fund Acts as Cornerstone Investor to Anchor Zambia’s First Green Bond
EAIF acted as the cornerstone investor of the bond issued by CEC Renewables (CECR).
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- Energy
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Press Release: Rare Unveils World’s First Impact Bond for Small-Scale Fisheries
The SSF Impact Bond will finance the community-led co-management of small-scale fisheries, a proven pathway to meeting the needs of people and nature.
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- Investing
- Region
- South Asia
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Press Release: IIX’s Women’s Livelihood Bond™ 6 Breaks New Ground with US$100 Million Issuance as the Largest Orange Bond in the Market, Expected to Empower Over 880,000 Women and Girls in the Global South
WLB6 sets a new industry standard as the largest Orange and Sustainability labeled Bond in the market, doubling in size compared to its predecessor.
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- Investing, Technology
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- Global
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BURN Manufacturing Issues US$10 Million Green Bond To Support Clean Cooking
The proceeds from the bond will allow BURN to increase existing manufacturing capacity in Kenya as well as launching a new manufacturing facility in Lagos, Nigeria.
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- Energy, Environment, Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Brazil Aims to Raise $2 Billion in ESG Sovereign Bonds in September
Brazil is set to issue around $2 billion in its first sustainable sovereign bonds in September, a senior Finance Ministry official said.
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- Environment, Investing
- Region
- Latin America
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