Sustainable Investing archive
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- Policy & Disclosure
CPP Investments adds a governance check to carbon footprint disclosures
Canada's largest pension fund now says which of its heavy emitters have begun transition planning, and which have not.
- Policy & Disclosure
ISSB moves off seed money with a five-year plan
The sustainability standards board adds a Geneva office and its own financing through 2031, while the SEC keeps an eye on the parent foundation's remit.
- The Wrap
Transition finance puts a price on hard-to-abate steel
A 30-basis-point discount on Chinese steel debt is the first measurable evidence that transition finance is crossing into hard-to-abate industry. A green hydrogen fund and a biomass loan test the same question.
- Products
Blue Earth raises $200M for impact secondaries with Walton LP support
The $200M second close puts Walton family money behind an effort to build a secondary market for impact investments.
- Transition Finance
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.
- Who's investing
World's largest fund asks if impact investments can hedge
Norges Bank's hedge question puts impact managers on notice to prove downside protection.
- Who's investing
African Development Bank, Italian DFI back RMBV's third fund
A Cairo manager approaches a $300 million close for a North African consumer-access fund with two development-finance backers.
- Transition Finance
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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- Products
WovenEarth closes $155M fund-of-funds for early-stage cleantech
The Palo Alto firm's second cleantech fund-of-funds spreads LP capital across the earliest, riskiest layer of climate tech.
- Products
SSE's debut Kangaroo green bond raises about $708m
A two-tranche sale, 2.5 times subscribed, lifts SSE's outstanding green debt to about $8 billion.
- Transition Finance
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.
- Policy & Disclosure
Japan's disclosure lesson: the CARB extension is a runway, not a reprieve
The CARB extension lasts three months. Japan's TCFD experience shows why voluntary reports won't satisfy the rules that carry a $500,000 penalty.
- Transition Finance
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.
- Transition Finance
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.
- Transition Finance
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.
- Transition Finance
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.
- Who's investing
BBVA's climate fund commitments pass €500m
A €15m EQT ticket brings the lender to eleven platforms and leaves Alterra as the untested relationship.
- Transition Finance
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.
- Transition Finance
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.
- Products
Reach Capital closes $265 million fifth fund for inclusive AI
Reach Capital's fifth fund backs startups at the intersection of learning, health, and work, as AI moves to the center of impact investing.
- Transition Finance
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.
- Transition Finance
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.
- Transition Finance
Climate Fund Managers banks $182m for Southern Africa green hydrogen
Blended finance gets a $182 million test in green hydrogen's hardest market.
- Transition Finance
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.
- Policy & Disclosure
EU deforestation law collides with West Africa's untraceable cocoa
The EU wants cocoa traced to the plot. West Africa's cocoa trade is not built for that.
- Transition Finance
Canada pledges C$10 billion toward C$70 billion clean energy package
Federal support backs 14 GW of hydro and wind projects in Labrador.
- Policy & Disclosure
Seven asset owners from five countries push back on SEC climate rollback
Seven pension funds and public trustees from five countries are urging the SEC not to rescind its 2024 climate disclosure rules.
- Products
All Aboard Coalition closes $133 million debut climate-tech fund
The collaborative's first fund lands at 44% of the $300 million it set out to mobilize.
- Transition Finance
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.
- Policy & Disclosure
FTSE 100 climate-vote campaign enters its sixth year
LAPFF and CCLA renew their push for shareholder votes on corporate climate plans; investors managing £3.1trn backed last year's effort.
- Transition Finance
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.
- Transition Finance
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.
- Policy & Disclosure
U.S. threatens EU action over sustainability rules
Washington says recent EU reforms leave American companies exposed to CSRD and CSDDD, raising the prospect of another transatlantic trade dispute.
- Who's investing
La Caisse and Brookfield complete Boralex take-private
The Canadian pension and Brookfield close their $37.25-per-share bid; La Caisse ends up with roughly 30%.
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- Policy & Disclosure
U.S. warns EU sustainability rules still burden American commerce
Washington says the EU's Omnibus fix fell short, reopening a clash over extraterritorial reporting and the 2029 deadline.
- Transition Finance
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.
- Transition Finance
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.
- Transition Finance
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.