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Climate finance in Africa: profitable and deeply transformational
Equity Group is addressing the climate challenge in Africa by combining green loans, capacity building, and targeted partnerships. The Group is dedicating an increasing share of its portfolio to finan...
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Financial institutions’ climate role: from commitments to action
Financial institutions, including banking and funding institutions, have a pivotal role to play in driving low-emissions and climate-resilient development. They need to adopt practices that support cl...
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Finansleasing 2017
Finans Leasing, a subsidiary of Finans Bank, finances Turkish microenterprises and SMEs, as well as renewable energy and energy efficiency projects.
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GEF Latam: preparing the ground for climate mitigation and adaptation funding
GEF Capital invests in private climate change solutions in the mitigation and adaptation space in Brazil. Its partnership with Proparco has been catalytic in attracting investments from key institutio...
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Sustainable finance in action: when financial players transform their business model
To bolster their action in favour of climate change mitigation and adaptation to its adverse effects, financial institutions are reorganising. They are rethinking their processes, products and conditi...
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E-mobility: using debt to scale up
Scaling up the electric mobility sector requires the use of debt financing. This is the message conveyed by three representatives of major investors in vehicle decarbonisation in Africa, India and Lat...
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For Banco Promerica, green construction is key to a low-carbon future
Banco Promerica Costa Rica is committed to channeling capital toward impactful projects, promoting environmental and social value, while maintaining financial performance. Financing construction proje...
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RE&UP, circular technology serving climate mitigation
In Gaziantep, in south-eastern Turkey, SANKO Group is revolutionising the field of textile recycling. Its subsidiary RE&UP – which has partnered with a French company for its production machinery – co...
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“Our goal: to create a global network of circular textile recycling hubs”
RE&UP’s General Manager, Andreas Dorner, discusses the technical challenges encountered, the expansion strategy of Sanko Group’s subsidiary, and the key role of the partnership with Proparco.
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Financing adaptation: anticipating risks to create value
To be truly effective, the private sector’s contribution must be based on fairness and a long-term approach. This implies a pricing of risk that reflects the real costs of exposure without penalising...
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Adapting to climate change: an economic and financial imperative
Faced with the worsening physical impacts of climate change, adaptation is gradually becoming an economic and financial priority. Long perceived as a renunciation of mitigation, it is now becoming ind...
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In India, vineyards faced with climate change
In the Indian state of Maharashtra, the Sahyadri Farms (a farmer collective owned company) – supported by Proparco – has managed to build a network of 50,000 smallholder farmers and become the country...
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Sahyadri Farms, trailblazes with agricultural business and finance model
Farmer-owned Sahyadri Farms is building a resilient, profitable, and climate-aligned horticulture model. This entails leadership and collaborative planning, structuring and board monitoring.
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FIRST BANK NIGERIA
PROPARCO’s aim in supporting the credit activity of First Bank Nigeria, an internationally renowned institution, is to strengthen medium and long-term financing, which is hard to come by in the countr...
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AXA Climate: modelling climate risks, adapting crops
AXA Climate has used its modelling tools and agronomic expertise to identify the impacts of climate change on crops at Sahyadri Farms and propose ways of adapting.
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