6 posts found.
Selected Category: Climate
Learning to understand (and manage) climate risks
Floods, typhoons and tornados, forest fires, drought, and extreme heat. Extreme weather conditions have become part of our daily news. As the drastic effects of climate change become more evident, financiers, such as Finnfund, must learn to understand and live with the risks. Understanding the climate risks is particularly important because nearly all our portfolio […]
Read moreDecember 15, 2021
Collaborating to accelerate investment in climate adaptation and resilience
New multimillion dollar commitments and strategic collaborative actions to overcome key hurdles to private investment in climate adaptation and resilience in developing and emerging countries. The group of development finance institutions signatories and partners members to the Adaptation & Resilience Investors Collaborative (the “Collaborative”) today committed to substantially increase investments in climate adaptation and resilience […]
Read moreNovember 8, 2021
CDC Group, Finnfund, Norfund propose innovative partnership with New Forests with an ambition to raise $500m for sustainable forestry across sub-Saharan Africa
CDC Group (“CDC”), the UK’s development finance institution; Finnfund, the Finnish Fund for Industrial Cooperation; Norfund, the Norwegian Government’s investment fund for developing countries; and New Forests, a global investment manager focusing on sustainable landscapes, have today announced an intention to partner to develop investment strategies designed to scale and transform the sustainable forestry sector […]
Read moreNovember 3, 2021
Finnfund is one of the founding members of the Forest Investor Club launched at COP26
At COP26 during the World Leaders Summit’s Forest Day session on November 2, 2021, the United States launched the Forest Investor Club. This network of leading public and private financial institutions and other investors aims to unlock and scale up investments that support sustainable, climate-aligned outcomes in the land sector. These financial institutions and Network […]
Read moreNovember 2, 2021
Electric mobility is a question of health and it needs investments to develop
Earlier this year, I had the pleasure of moderating a panel discussion where investors gathered to discuss the risk profile of investing in charge points. Having worked with investments in developing countries for the past 20 years, it was refreshing to discuss with investors whose focus is elsewhere than the emerging markets. We discovered a […]
Read moreSeptember 14, 2021
Finnfund first development financier to report carbon net-negative investment portfolio
Finnish development financier and impact investor Finnfund today released data showing that its total investment portfolio has a net negative carbon balance. The figures for 2019 indicate that Finnfund’s investments removed 134,679 tCO2e more than they emitted. In 2019, Finnfund’s investment portfolio was EUR 617 million. “I am extremely proud that we have been able to […]
Read moreMay 4, 2021