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Press Release: Deetken Impact Sustainable Energy Announces Its First Investment in Solar Energy in Jamaica With Soléco Energy
Through a common equity investment in a Special Purpose Vehicle, the funds will finance solar PV distributed generation projects for commercial and industrial clients using long-term solar lease agreements.
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- Energy
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- North America
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Press Release: Africa Finance Corporation Plans $500 Million Infrastructure Climate Resilient Fund Under Newly Created Asset Management Division, AFC Capital Partners
As part of its drive to address Africa’s vulnerability to climate risk, Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) has created an independent asset management arm, AFC Capital Partners.
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- Environment, Investing
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Press Release: Convergence Provides Funding to Protect Critical Habitat and Advance Sustainable Agriculture in Indonesia
Convergence awards a feasibility study grant to the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) to develop a blended finance solution in Indonesia that increases access to credit and training for smallholder coffee farmers to engage in sustainable agriculture
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- Agriculture
- Region
- South Asia
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Press Release: Fiera Capital Invests in World Bank Sustainable Development Bonds and Raises Awareness for the Importance of Water and Ocean Resources
This bond is the latest example of the World Bank’s engagement with investors around specific development challenges and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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- Environment, Investing, WASH
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- Global
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Agri Commodities and Finance Secures a $115 Million Syndicated Loan for Sustainable Agriculture
The funds, which benefit Agri Commodities and Finance (ACF), a subsidiary of Export Trading Group (ETG), will promote sustainable agriculture in Africa.
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- Agriculture
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Six New Climate Finance Ideas for a Sustainable Recovery
The Global Innovation Lab for Climate Finance (the Lab) has selected six new climate finance ideas for its 2021 acceleration programme.
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- Investing
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Taking Control of the Value for Money Narrative: How Innovative Metrics Are Making Impact Part of the Financial Equation
The nonprofit VisionSpring—which provides affordable, high-quality eyeglasses to base of the pyramid customers—realized it needed a metric that could balance cost and impact, while keeping its target customers at the center of decision-making. Analysts at CASE and SoJo discuss the value of the “programmatic value for money metric” VisionSpring implemented, and explore how this type of metric can help organizations consider trade-offs between cost and impact.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing, Social Enterprise
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Analysis: Sustainable Finance Addresses Social Justice as COVID-19 Raises the Stakes
Early in the pandemic, the coronavirus was seen as the "great leveler," hitting rich and poor alike. Instead, it's become apparent that COVID-19 is the "great divider," aggravating the many structural inequities between richer and poorer nations and people--leading to demands for social justice.
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- Coronavirus
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