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Blue Marble Launches Climate Adaptation Project With Support From USAID
With a grant from USAID, Blue Marble will scale an innovative financial product in Kenya to strengthen the climate adaptation of coffee farmers connected to global supply chains.
At COP28, Senegal Becomes 25th Country to Back Declaration for Simplified and Consistent Access to Climate Finance With LoCAL
The declaration adds momentum to ministers' repeated calls for increased adaptation finance for African nations, Small Island Developing Sates and Least Developed Countries.
New Platform to Boost Environmental Impact Financing in Africa
The European Investment Bank and the Green Climate Fund have announced their collaboration in the Green and Resilience Debt Platform, a vehicle that aims to boost climate finance in Africa.
Africa: The Italian CDP Lends EUR100M to the AFC to Finance the Ecological Transition
The pan-African financial institution will use the funds to finance the green transition through sustainable infrastructure in Africa.
Symbiotics Launched Two Green Bonds of $17 Million in Africa With Sun King
The green projects that will be financed belong to the renewable energy category, in particular solar kits.
British International Investment and Symbiotics Partner to Launch First-ever Green Basket Bond Across Africa, South and Southeast Asia
The green lending program will direct much-needed financing to small-scale green projects across Africa, South and Southeast Asia through local MSME banks.
AFC Offers Its E-Learning Course on Climate Finance, Resilience and Financing for Biodiversity Impact in East Africa
Through this course, bank staff learn about climate risks and opportunities, methods to assess climate risk and offer biodiversity or nature-based adaptation and mitigation solutions to climate proof their clients and reduce the bank’s exposure to climate risk.
Reducing Climate Risks - AFC Assists Malagasy to Insure Themselves Against Income Losses
The overall program objective is to increase the productivity of the participating actors in the agricultural value chains particularly affected by climate change.
Symbiotics Launches $15 Million Green Bond for Greenlight Planet
Greenlight Planet will use the proceeds of the Green Bond to finance supplier advances, inventory and customer lease structures for pay-as-you-go solar home systems.
UNCDF Is Boosting Financial Inclusion and Job Creation in Ghana Through Green Innovation Challenge
Applicants can be based anywhere globally, however solutions must focus on youth, women, returning migrants or MSMES in Ashanti and Western regions of Ghana.