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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…
11 Jun 2025
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…
10 Jun 2025
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 …
10 Jun 2025
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…
10 Jun 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…
9 Jun 2025
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…
9 Jun 2025
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…
9 Jun 2025
The IFC invested CLP 23 billion in a securitized bond by Copeval, Chile's largest agricultural input distributor, to extend pre-harvest financing to over 50,000 farmers, 99% of them SMEs. The blended …
9 Jun 2025
A coalition of 180 financial institutions managing $17.2 trillion in assets signed the Finance Statement on Plastic Pollution, urging governments to adopt a binding global treaty addressing the full l…
9 Jun 2025
The European Commission and High Representative unveiled the EU's International Digital Strategy, creating a Digital Partnership Network and an EU Tech Business Offer pooling public and private invest…
8 Jun 2025
The European Commission introduced an import surveillance tool using customs data to detect trade diversion and sudden import surges redirected into the EU single market. The data-led trade-defence me…
8 Jun 2025
The Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market has approved two adipic acid nitrous oxide abatement methodologies and earlier versions of the TPDDTEC clean cookstove methodology, completing its…
3 Jun 2025
The IFC and South Africa's FirstRand Bank established a risk-sharing facility in May 2025 covering 50% of credit risk on a loan portfolio up to ZAR 1.8 billion (about $99 million) for climate-smart an…
30 May 2025
The European Commission launched the EU Startup and Scaleup Strategy, branded Choose Europe to Start and Scale, structured around five pillars including a proposed European 28th Regime and a Scaleup E…
29 May 2025
The EU and the Latin American Energy Organisation (OLADE) signed a Memorandum of Understanding advancing renewable energy and energy efficiency cooperation, conferring permanent observer status on the…
28 May 2025
The Toronto Stock Exchange launched the Canada Climate Week Xchange, a five-year initiative uniting stakeholders to support Canada's greenhouse-gas reduction goals by 2030 and align listed companies w…
27 May 2025
Ethiopia, with the World Bank and CIWA, commissioned the Adami Tesso and Kumato Rural Piped Water Supply System under the Horn of Africa Groundwater for Resilience Project, delivering water to over 24…
27 May 2025
The European Commission adopted four secondary legislative acts and one Communication to implement the Net-Zero Industry Act, including non-price auction criteria applying to 30% of auctioned volumes …
27 May 2025
The British Business Bank announced a £40 million investment in the £81.5 million Evolution Fund managed by Frontier Development Capital to expand flexible debt financing for SMEs across the Midlands …
27 May 2025
The IFC extended a $200 million senior loan to Nedbank Corporate and Investment Banking to finance EDGE-certified green buildings across South Africa, with at least half of residential funds for affor…
27 May 2025
The World Bank Group endorsed a six-year Country Partnership Framework with the Philippines covering 2026 to 2031, prioritising human capital, inclusive job creation, and resilience to climate and eco…
27 May 2025
The IFC extended a €20 million loan to Mikrofin, Bosnia and Herzegovina's largest microfinance institution, directing at least 50% to women-led micro and small enterprises and 25% to emissions-reducti…
27 May 2025
Africa CDC and the IFRC signed a renewed three-year Memorandum of Understanding at the 78th World Health Assembly to strengthen epidemic preparedness, legal frameworks, and community-led health delive…
27 May 2025
The European Commission's 2025 Blue Economy Report recorded 4.82 million jobs and near EUR 890 billion turnover in 2022, with offshore wind reaching 18.9 gigawatts across 11 member states. The finding…
27 May 2025
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