Collaborating to accelerate investment in climate adaptation and resilience

…climate risk assessment capabilities, shaping markets, and building pipelines of bankable investments. Further to these joint efforts, members of the Collaborative commit to: Adopt common principles for tracking finance for…

November 8, 2021

Supporting alignment with the Paris Agreement through investing in carbon removals

Marko Berglund

…University Press, Cambridge, UK and New York, NY, USA, 3056 pp., doi:10.1017/9781009325844. FRESCOS, Free Web Tool for Carbon Sequestration Calculation, https://www.frescos.earth, accessed 24.10.2022 PCAF (2020). The Global GHG Accounting and…

November 25, 2022

Finnfund and DFC commit 15 million US dollars in equity and loan financing to Kentegra Biotechnology to boost the expansion of pyrethrin production in Kenya

…and professional team, and its operations have significant development impact,” says Johanna Raehalme, head of Finnfund’s Nairobi office. “DFC’s support for Kentegra will expand the company’s production capacity for a…

August 22, 2023

New open-access FRESCOS Tool launched for accounting the carbon sequestration in forestry projects

…suggesting a combination of the tiered methods for the available higher and lower levels of accuracy. Amal-Lee Amin, Director Climate Change, CDC Group: “FRESCOS is an essential new tool for…

June 29, 2021

Capturing adaptation opportunities

…increase adaptation finance, especially for adaptation opportunities. Introduction Impacts of climate change are creating new challenges for both people and ecosystems (Ripple et al., 2019). While waiting for countries to…

August 13, 2021

We need ambitious targets for nature and biodiversity

Anne Arvola

…utilising so– called Nature-based-Solutions to tackle, for example, climate change. Companies and investors are publishing their road maps for biodiversity and preparing themselves for biodiversity and nature risk reporting as…

December 12, 2022

Finnfund invests in CREI to improve mobile connections in South Sudan

…the asset management company of ieng Group, Communication & Renewable Energy Infrastructure (CREI) and will be used to finance CREI’s Telecom Energy Service Company in South Sudan. The financing will…

June 28, 2024

Annual report 2021

May 9, 2022

OP Finnfund Global Impact Fund I joins a group of investors supporting India’s leading MSME lending platform Indifi

…access to credit from financial institutions. Indifi offers tailored loans for travel, hotel, e-commerce, restaurant, trading, and retail businesses. The funds raised will be used for serving more customers, identifying…

November 24, 2021

We got a deal from Montreal COP15 – then what?

Anne Arvola

…who have been pushing for the agreement for years in preparation, and finally, in the final stages for weeks with very little sleep – and even food. As you have…

December 20, 2022