Tagged - blended finance

Climate adaptation solutions remain under-invested despite the massive opportunities they offer. Impact investors must lead the way by combining both their capital and their influencing power to reframe climate adaptation as the smart thing to do.

In the wake of foreign aid cuts, and in its drive to become a world leader in impact investing, Asia needs to find its own sources of catalytic capital to attract more private investment to impact. Where will it come from, and how do we get there, were key questions at the AVPN conference 2025. 

This week: Palestinian beer hits UK shops thanks to social enterprise partnership, AVPN 2026 host city announced, ice cream pioneers call upon Unilever to ‘free Ben and Jerry’s’ – and more.

Against a shifting geopolitical context, there are not only challenges, but opportunities for the impact community in Latin America and the Caribbean. Ahead of Latimpacto’s fourth annual conference, we explore delegates' top talking points.

This week: the UK prime minister launches a new Civil Society Covenant, impact investments in Greece reach €1.8bn in 2024, half a trillion dollars is invested in gender equality across Asia Pacific, and more.

Business leaders at the UN Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development vow to tackle challenges that have prevented blended finance from scaling further to mobilise private investment to achieve the SDGs.

As Convergence publishes figures showing the blended finance market held strong in 2024, it predicts that US-led international assistance budget cuts will put smaller, high-impact deals most at risk.

This week: Bill’s Gates to close in 20 years; Char Love joins House of Hackney to stand up for nature; OpenAI’s public benefit corporation restructure confirmed – and more.

As Trump’s USA takes its eye off social impact, Europe’s venture capitalists stand at a decisive moment in history, concluded discussions at the latest FASE Impact Fire Talk. But capital strategies must evolve to unleash VCs’ true transformative power.