Transition Finance: archive
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Mafix raises $5.4M pre-seed for rock-based carbon-removing fertilizer
The Stanford spinout will use the capital to prove its fast-weathering rock process inside cement kilns and produce 1,000 tons of fertilizer.
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Emirates NBD launches UAE's first transition finance framework
New framework gives hard-to-abate borrowers a labeled route to decarbonization finance.
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Senken signs 50,000-ton biomass carbon removal deal with Carbonsate
Multi-year offtake gives Carbonsate the certainty to expand its Namibia storage sites.
Ceres: transition plans turn climate analysis into decisions
A Ceres review finds climate-risk analysis doesn't change portfolios without a written transition plan — and argues the plan is now a competitive advantage.
Standard Life's biomass loan puts matching adjustment to work
The £61 million Snetterton financing is the first deal under Standard Life's new Project Infrastructure structure, a solvency-driven route for insurer capital into infrastructure.
BP to sell $4.1B Archaea Energy in capital-light pivot
BP's renewable natural gas platform is for sale as it nears its projected cash-flow turn.
BeZero puts Microsoft's carbon-removal diligence on the record
Fourteen ex ante ratings show how a major corporate buyer vets credits before issuance.
Emirates NBD writes the rulebook for its $30 billion transition pledge
Emirates NBD now defines which hard-to-abate borrowers count toward its $30 billion mobilization target.
Microsoft's retreat shrinks the carbon-removal market it built
Microsoft cut its purchases by 80% through mid-July. Global carbon-removal credit sales fell 66% as the young market lost its anchor buyer.
Nuclea Energy to buy Moltex nuclear portfolio in cash deal
The all-cash purchase, subject to UK approval, would add Moltex's fuel recycling process and two reactor designs to Nuclea.
Enduring Planet closes first climate debt fund after $24.7M
Fifty-eight loans averaging near $426,000 put the demand side of small-ticket climate credit on the record.
Climate Fund Managers raises $182 million for green hydrogen vehicle
A rand-denominated $182 million raise gives Southern Africa's hydrogen market a patient equity base and a test.
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Britain's wind curtailment bill tops £1bn as grid lags behind
The operator is paying turbines to stop and gas plants to start, and the tab is heading toward £10 billion a year.
China's steel heartland issued $7 billion in transition debt
Hebei's transition loans cost 30 basis points less than conventional steel debt — a small, measurable start for China's steel decarbonisation.
Nuclea Energy to acquire Moltex's nuclear fuel-recycling portfolio
An all-cash asset purchase would put Moltex's fuel-recycling and molten salt reactor patents in private hands, pending U.K. approval.
Emirates NBD's Bains: hard-to-abate sectors are the next test
Vijay Bains says financing existing high-emitting assets, not just green projects, will decide whether net-zero targets are met.
CEFC lends $100m to Australia's mid-scale renewables gap
A concessional-debt program of $100 million aims to prove that Australia's 'missing middle' of solar and battery projects can be financed.
Form Energy pulls in $750 million to scale 100-hour iron-air batteries
Another T. Rowe Price-led round lifts total equity past $2 billion, putting multi-day storage on a firmer financial footing.
Lloyds sets £100bn sustainable and transition finance goal
The UK bank's 2027–2030 target counts transition lending for the first time and implies an annual pace about 41% above its recent average.
Investors move into South Africa's renewable rush
ImpactAlpha's Monday briefing finds just-transition openings in Africa's biggest economy as emerging-market energy capital grows.
Bank of America's $250B plan puts energy, minerals at transition's core
The lender's infrastructure program treats the energy and minerals beneath AI as transition finance, widening what counts as green.
Climate Fund Managers banks $182m for Southern Africa green hydrogen
Blended finance gets a $182 million test in green hydrogen's hardest market.
Form Energy's $750 million Series G backs 100-hour iron-air batteries
The round, led again by T. Rowe Price, pushes the company's equity past $2 billion and funds a West Virginia factory.
Canada pledges C$10 billion toward C$70 billion clean energy package
Federal support backs 14 GW of hydro and wind projects in Labrador.
CIP's growth-markets clean-energy fund closes at $3 billion
The final close is three times the size of the predecessor fund, with $1.6 billion already committed across nine investments.
CIP reaches financial close on first Mexican solar-plus-storage project
La Esperanza, a 420MW solar farm with 150MW of batteries, is CIP's first construction project in Mexico and an early commitment from its $3 billion growth-markets fund.
CIP reaches financial close on its first solar-plus-storage project in Mexico
A $510 million debt package, anchored by a CFE power agreement, backs La Esperanza Solar.
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Sonnedix closes €730m loan from nine banks for solar and storage
Nine banks lend Sonnedix €730m for solar and battery projects across Italy, Spain, Portugal, and France.
CIP closes $3B growth markets fund, half already invested
The final close nearly triples the predecessor vehicle, and $1.6 billion is already committed — evidence of institutional appetite for emerging-market energy infrastructure.
Citi widens its sustainable-finance rules with $650 billion already counted
A December framework change adding nuclear power, nature projects, and data-center loans makes the remaining $350 billion easier to book and harder to interpret.