Schroders and emerging markets impact specialist BlueOrchard have launched a climate impact strategy targeting positive environmental change in emerging markets.The...
At the EBRD’s Green Cities Annual Conference 2021, the European development bank’s Carel Cronenberg laid out the respective benefits and drawbacks of two key green...
The Asian Development Bank has invested $20 million in green bonds issued by Georgian Railway. Proceeds will be used primarily to roll over maturing Eurobonds that it had...
The European Investment Bank has made a disbursement of €50 million to the Government of Georgia for the procurement of vaccines against COVID-19 through the COVAX...
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the European Union are providing new funds to support MSMEs in Ukraine. The EBRD will lend the hryvnia equivalent...
International rating agencies, Fitch and Moody’s, have affirmed GuarantCo’s ratings of A1 and AA- respectively, both with negative outlook. Fitch...
The World Bank has debarred China-based Zhejiang First Hydro & Power Construction Group Co for two years in connection with fraudulent and corrupt practices under the...
The BUILD Fund, an impact fund created in partnership between Bamboo Capital Partners and the United Nations Capital Development Fund, has made its inaugural investment,...
Parkwind has achieved financial close for the 257MW Arcadis Ost 1 offshore wind farm in German territorial waters of the Baltic Sea, northeast of the island of...
New regulation has been approved to help grow green finance in Mongolia in a move seen as a major step forward in helping the country tackle its environmental...
The African Development Bank has approved an €83 million loan to finance the second phase of Egypt’s Electricity and Green Growth Support Program. The funding...
The Asian Development Bank and the Government of India have signed a $484 million loan to improve transport connectivity and facilitate industrial development in the...
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has facilitated two trial transactions between National Bank of Greece and Citi on the digital trade finance network...
Spain's CaixaBank is partnering with BlackRock to bring more impact investing to the bank as it readies a new range of sustainability-focused investment and pension...
Green Yellow Madagascar and state-owned utility Jirama have agreed to further expand the Ambatolampy photovoltaic solar power plant in order to increase its capacity from...
Grzegorz Zielinski is has been appointed Director, Head of Energy Europe, for the EBRD. Based in Warsaw, he starts in his new role on 1 July, 2021. Zielinski succeeds...
The European Investment Bank is partnering with the Government of Barbados to provide €50 million ($60 million) for COVID-related emergency healthcare expenditure,...
The West African Development Bank (BOAD) has appointed Braima Luis Soares Cassama as second Vice-President for a renewable term of five years.He previously served as...
The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), together with the Government of Sri Lanka, has signed a financial agreement to launch the Smallholder...
Elisabetta Falcetti has been named as the new Head of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in central Europe and the Baltic states. She was...