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- Sustainable Finance
World Bank and ICVCM Launch Carbon Market Guidance for Governments
The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market, the World Bank, and the UNFCCC have jointly launched practical guidance to help governments navigate carbon market decisions and maximise their c…
- Climate & Nature
EU launches €5 billion guarantee platform for Egypt's green transition
The European Commission and Egypt launched the EU-Egypt Investment Guarantee for Development Mechanism to mobilise up to €5 billion in investments by 2027. The blended-finance, EFSD+ guarantee model o…
- Sustainable Finance
EU projects €241 billion nuclear investment need by 2050
The European Commission's eighth nuclear illustrative programme (PINC) projects approximately €241 billion in investment required by 2050 to support Member States' nuclear plans. The Commission's posi…
- Sustainable Finance
World Bank approves $34.5 million Bhutan green-economy value-chain project
The World Bank approved a $34.5 million package on June 13, 2025 to modernise Bhutan's Renewable Natural Resources sector and create 12,000 jobs. The project's blended IDA-PROGREEN financing and measu…
- Climate & Nature
Hebei steel transition guidelines drive over $2.8 billion in loans
Hebei province's December 2023 Guidelines for Transition Finance in the Iron and Steel Industry catalysed over USD2.8 billion in labelled transition loans by end-2024, per a Climate Bonds Initiative a…
- Sustainable Finance
Climate Bonds launches Vietnam transition finance guide for hard-to-abate sectors
The Climate Bonds Initiative launched Transition Finance for Hard-to-Abate Sectors in Vietnam, providing a decarbonisation methodology for steel, cement, and basic chemicals. Its CBAM-driven, ISSB- an…
- Sustainable Finance
Ecuador launches $45.9 million Green Climate Fund mangrove restoration project
Ecuador launched a USD 45.9 million Green Climate Fund "Mangroves for Climate" project using results-based payments to restore mangrove forests. Its performance-linked blue-carbon finance model offers…
- Sustainable Finance
World Bank approves $150 million Gabon urban resilience project
The World Bank approved a $150 million Gabon Urban Development Project to build climate-resilient infrastructure and reduce flood risks in secondary cities. Its focus on underserved urban centres and …
- Sustainable Finance
IFC and QBE partner to extend Building Resilience Index across Asia-Pacific
The IFC partnered with QBE Asia to expand the Building Resilience Index and address the widening property insurance gap in the Asia-Pacific region. As the first insurer to integrate the BRI framework,…
- Sustainable Finance
IFC provides $92 million loan for Thailand renewable energy expansion
The IFC announced a THB3,140 million (approximately $92 million) financing package to Winchai Company, a Sermsang Power subsidiary, to expand renewable energy across Thailand and Southeast Asia. The l…
- Climate & Nature
India's auto-component MSMEs face disruption from EV transition
India's rapid shift to electric mobility is exposing micro, small, and medium enterprises in the auto-component sector to disproportionate risk as ICE-specific parts face obsolescence. With MSMEs repr…
- Sustainable Finance
Catalytic Climate Finance Facility awards $1.1 million to three blended-finance vehicles
The Catalytic Climate Finance Facility awarded USD 1.1 million on June 3, 2025 to three blended-finance vehicles spanning agriculture, textiles, and social enterprise across Africa and Asia. One award…
- Sustainable Finance
EBRD launches InvestEU programme in Bulgaria with €149 million guarantees
The EBRD launched its InvestEU programme in Bulgaria, signing €135 million and €14 million portfolio guarantees with Postbank and ProCredit Bank Bulgaria. The risk-sharing model mobilising over €300 m…
- Sustainable Finance
EU and India expand trilateral development cooperation in third countries
The European Union and India agreed in June 2025 to enhance trilateral cooperation in third countries under their Strategic Partnership Roadmap and the Global Gateway Strategy. The framework positions…
- Regulations
Malaysia signs five MoUs promoting sustainable commodities at Expo 2025 Osaka
Malaysia's Ministry of Plantation and Commodities launched KPK Week at Expo 2025 Osaka, signing five MoUs advancing sustainable palm oil, circular-economy innovation, and net-zero goals. The deforesta…
- Climate & Nature
UNEP FI-backed Living Amazon Mechanism channels capital into bioeconomy
The UNEP FI-backed Living Amazon Mechanism (LAM) offers a blended-finance model directing private capital into Brazil's Amazon bioeconomy while de-risking investment. Aligned with Target 19 of the Glo…
- Sustainable Finance
UN initiative reframes climate transparency as engine for finance access
UN Climate Change's Together4Transparency initiative, with the Center for Clean Air Policy, finds nations with robust transparency systems are better positioned to attract climate finance. As India su…
- Sustainable Finance
UN Global Compact launches China-Indonesia alliance to fund SDG gap
The UN Global Compact launched the Sino-Indonesia Corporate Community Action Network to mobilise private capital toward Indonesia's US$8.7 trillion SDG financing need by 2030. The cross-border, ESG-in…
- Sustainable Finance
CPI report finds organic waste management drew 1% of methane finance
A Climate Policy Initiative assessment coordinated by GAIA found that organic waste management received only 1% (USD 20 million) of methane abatement finance in 2021-22, while 94% of solid-waste funds…
- Sustainable Finance
CPI launches Climate Finance Reform Compass tracking 32 reform topics
Climate Policy Initiative launched the Climate Finance Reform Compass, an accountability tracker for the COP28 Global Climate Finance Framework that evaluates 32 reform topics across nine themes with …
- Sustainable Finance
Report outlines blue finance instruments to scale ocean conservation capital
An international development coalition issued a 2025 report, Accelerating Blue Finance, mapping instruments such as sovereign blue bonds, debt-for-nature swaps, and parametric insurance to mobilise pr…
- Sustainable Finance
IEA projects record $3.3 trillion global energy investment in 2025
The IEA's World Energy Investment report projects global energy investment will reach a record $3.3 trillion in 2025, with clean technologies attracting $2.2 trillion, twice the capital allocated to f…
- Sustainable Finance
IEA launches Global LNG Capacity Tracker amid record liquefaction expansion
The IEA launched the Global LNG Capacity Tracker, projecting nearly 290 billion cubic metres per year of new LNG liquefaction capacity online between 2025 and 2030, against current operational capacit…
- Sustainable Finance
IFC and Mongolia's FRC sign MOU to expand thematic bonds
The IFC and Mongolia's Financial Regulatory Commission signed an MOU launching the second phase of the IFC Green Finance Market Development Project to introduce blue bonds, sustainability-linked bonds…