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CFO insight into Q2 2023
…will affect the global scenarios. Most likely, the business environment, especially in our target countries, will deteriorate if the global situation remains the same. We are closely monitoring our investees…
Read moreAugust 29, 2023
Why sustainable forestry is good business? Chris Burchmore from FSC® Africa explains
…products, too,” says Chris Burchmore, Director of FSC Africa. Deforestation and degradation of forests is a global challenge. According to FAO, Food and Agriculture Organization of United Nations, in Africa…
Read moreSeptember 28, 2017
Beyond avoided emissions, DFIs seek carbon removals
For quite some time, it has been acknowledged that global CO2 emissions need to be reduced to avoid the catastrophic effects of climate change. Today, many companies, development finance institutions…
Read moreNovember 12, 2020
Terhi Koipijärvi: Strategic thinking over administration
…and have made a long global career in forest companies and Metsähallitus, the Finnish forest administration, until switching to consultancy last autumn. So I had seen the industry in Finland…
Read moreJanuary 30, 2023
New policy statement guides Finnfund’s investment activities in strengthening natural values and biodiversity
…opportunities that develop and implement solutions contributing to the goals and targets set by the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF), including mechanisms that address both biodiversity loss and climate change,…
Read moreAugust 26, 2024
Finnfund issues a EUR 100 million green bond
…to eligible projects with the objective to mobilise debt capital to support Finnfund’s mission to generate lasting impact by investing in businesses that solve global development challenges. In addition, it…
Read moreJanuary 24, 2024
Support to smallholder tree farming relieves the pressure on natural forests in Africa
…PDR has a long history of teak growing. My heart has been beating for smallholder tree growing since my early days in the forestry studies. Rural people in the Global…
Read moreMay 20, 2020
2020: Lessons learned, challenges tackled
…year when the OP Finnfund Global Impact Fund I raised EUR 76 million in the first funding round. As the first commercial Finnish impact fund to invest in emerging markets,…
Read moreDecember 21, 2020
Ivory Coast’s successful Eurobond issuance raises hopes for easing Africa’s funding squeeze
…This raises hopes that the financing and debt crisis in Sub-Saharan Africa will begin to ease. The Covid-19 pandemic, the political uncertainty caused by the war in Ukraine, the globally…
Read moreFebruary 1, 2024
We are biodiversity
…Global Forest Watch). Population growth, expansion of the agricultural frontiers, etc. are pushing nature into an ever-diminishing space, which combined with other factors drives biodiversity loss. Thus, the number of…
Read moreJanuary 12, 2022