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18 May 2020, London - BlackRock awarded Investor of the Year at the Environmental Finance 2020 Bond Awards.

Judged by an independent panel of representatives from leading investment firms, BlackRock has been recognised as the Investor of the Year by the annual Environmental Finance Bond awards ...

Story Highlights

• An issue brief from IDDRI suggests avenues for more efficient financing processes for the 2030 Agenda.

• Understanding the actual impact of investment flows is an important step amid the growing risk of "SDG-washing".

• The authors argue that the “true test” of 2030 Agenda ...

June 17, 2019 - Nearly half of Dutch people is open to experimenting with Mobility as a Service (MaaS): a travel subscription allowing them to use a whole range of shared and public transport, the idea being that a real-time app advises them on the most ...

 • New USD 1 billion+ fund will invest in sustainable companies in three primary areas: planetary health, people health and financial inclusion

• UBS raised more than USD 93 million as an exclusive wealth management partner of the fund

• Partnership with Generation Investment Management advances UBS's commitment ...

WASHINGTON & ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, May 23, 2019 - RENEW’s Impact Angel Network (IAN), one of the most active equity investors in Ethiopia with an expanding presence in East Africa, have successfully exited two investments to a regional private equity fund and a family office ...

May 15, 2019 - ABN AMRO yesterday announced it will enhance its bank-wide Mission 2030 to include the standards agreed in the Paris climate accord. In its 2030 mission, the bank set the goal to have its own buildings achieve at least energy label A by ...

Vienna, May 16, 2019 - Approximately half of the Armenian population make their living within a smallholder agricultural system - most of them, however, with little know-how and without the necessary machines. That this will change in the future is the declared goal of the "Organic Agriculture ...

White River Junction, VT, May 9, 2019 – Norwich Solar Technologies (NST) has announced the launch of their new Community Impact Fund focused on serving low-income residents, local non-profits, and business startups.

Traditional community solar projects work in two ways:

• Direct ownership – where customers buy part ...

CLEVELAND, May 7, 2019 - The Cleveland Foundation today announced that it will allocate $150 million in capital for social impact investing by the end of 2022. The foundation defines social impact investments as opportunities that align social good with financial return to bring about social ...