For the UN Capital Development Fund, this year's ECOSOC Forum on Financing for Development (FFD) was a platform for UNCDF to display its wide expertise in a variety of areas in innovative finance:…
We are extremely pleased to share outcomes from our High-Level Dialogue inon Leveraging the Potential of Green Bonds to Scale-Up Climate Action, where global leaders highlighted a number of concrete…
The move comes even as the African telecom sector continues to register strong growth each year
In a significant move that reduces Singapore’s footprint in Africa’s telecommunications market,…
In this Decade of Action, the Wind and Solar industries call on Governments to work with them to accelerate the deployment of renewables across the globe.
A key pledge ahead of an upcoming climate change conference has still not been met and the money is not sure to be available before 2023.
The UK government has set out a new financing plan ahead of…
As Congress debates whether to pare down the Biden administration’s signature climate proposals or allow the fossil fuel industry to benefit more from new government programs, new research suggests…
In 2009, developed countries committed to jointly mobilize $100 billion annually in climate finance by 2020 to support developing countries in reducing emissions and adapting to climate change.
This…
Impact investing has garnered much attention for its potential to channel capital into material social and environmental objectives. However, it is important for investors to dig deeper into what…
Only 1 in 20 of Europe’s largest 1,000 listed companies will achieve their net-zero pledges unless they speed up emissions cuts in the next decade.
Almost one-third of those companies have committed…
Commitments of more than US$400 billion in new finance and investment announced; far more needed to address energy poverty and decarbonization of energy systems››
Clean Energy Council report shows the average quarterly investment in new renewable energy capacity is 70 % below 2018 levels.
Investment in new large-scale solar and windfarms and the number of…
If massive public investment in renewable energy were only enough on its own to draw average global warming down to 3.5°C, but fossil fuel and methane reductions brought the world within reach of 1.5…
Mercedes-Benz on Thursday became the latest car manufacturer to unveil plans for a greater investment in electric vehicles, saying that it hopes to transition to solely manufacturing electric…
BlackRock Inc. rejected almost five times more board directors at companies, including Berkshire Hathaway Inc. and Exxon Mobil Corp., during the recent proxy season because they failed to act on…
Shareholder activist group Market Forces has asked the corporate watchdog to investigate whether coal company New Hope misled investors by claiming that coal would “remain a significant part of the…
Top debt and equity investors committed over $300 billion in 2020 into building renewable energy capacity
Despite the economic disruption from COVID-19, top global debt and equity investors are…
Ahead of COP26 in November, investors managing more than USD 6 trillion in assets have called for a coordinated global price on carbon to reach the Paris Agreement goal of limiting global average…
Anti-oil activists are turning their focus on fossil fuel funding, aiming to stop the flow of money for good.
Even by the standards of the chief executive of America’s biggest bank, March 31 looked…
* Czech Republic, Bulgaria among states warning on use of rulebook
* Taxonomy aims to boost green private investments
* Commission wants rules to guide COVID-19 recovery cash
The European Union's…
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