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Unlocking bioeconomy finance: Connecting capital markets and forest conservation in the Amazon

UNEP FI Backs Living Amazon Mechanism to Channel Private Capital into Biodiversity, Bioeconomy Solutions

June 12, 2025 No Comments

Key Impact Points: Connecting Capital Markets with Conservation As the world prepares for COP30—the “COP of Solutions”—one urgent challenge remains: how to finance global goals for nature and biodiversity. Meeting the Rio Conventions’ targets will require more than public funding; it will demand bold private sector investment and partnerships. The

SWEN CP launches the second vintage of its impact ocean fund Download Accueil / News / SWEN CP launches the second vintage of its impact ocean fund

SWEN Capital Partners Launches €300 Million Fund for Ocean Biodiversity, World’s Largest Impact Venture Fund of Its Kind

June 12, 2025 No Comments

Key Impact Points: SWEN Capital Partners Scales Ocean Impact Strategy with Second Blue Ocean Fund SWEN Capital Partners has raised €160 million in the first close of SWEN Blue Ocean 2, the world’s largest ocean-focused impact venture fund. With a €300 million target, the fund will back startups advancing technologies

Fugro to Lead Development of Safety Standards for Ocean-Based Carbon Removal

June 12, 2025 No Comments

Key Impact Points: Fugro to Develop First-Ever mCDR Environmental Impact Standards Fugro has been tapped by Ocean Visions to lead the development of a standardized Environmental Impact Assessment Framework for marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR) technologies—advancing a critical area of climate innovation focused on the ocean’s capacity to store carbon.

It’s time for the second draft of globalisation

June 10, 2025 No Comments

Capital markets need to be better attuned to individual countries’ goals and the interests of workers By Larry Fink – Originally published in the FT June 2025 The global economy is in a strange place: we know more about the next seven years than the next seven days. For nearly

Development Banks Commit €3 Billion to Fight Ocean Plastic by 2030

June 10, 2025 No Comments

Key Impact Points: €3 Billion Push to Stem the Tide of Plastic Pollution A coalition of development banks has pledged at least €3 billion ($3.4 billion) by 2030 to address plastic pollution in oceans—marking the world’s largest coordinated investment effort to tackle the crisis. The announcement came as the second

CAF Commits $2.5 Billion to Strengthen Latin America and Caribbean Blue Economy by 2030

June 10, 2025 No Comments

Key Impact Points: CAF Doubles Ocean Commitment to Lead Blue Finance in the Region CAF – the development bank of Latin America and the Caribbean – has announced a bold new investment of $2.5 billion through 2030 to advance a sustainable blue economy and preserve ocean ecosystems in the region.

Luxembourg, EIB Global Back $100 Million Blue Economy Fund for Climate Action in Small Island States

June 10, 2025 No Comments

Key Impact Points: Luxembourg and EIB Global Join Forces for Ocean-Based Climate Solutions Luxembourg is partnering with EIB Global to contribute €5 million to the Outrigger Impact Fund I, a new initiative designed to support climate resilience and low-carbon development in Small Island Developing States (SIDS). The fund, managed by

Follow the Money: Why Sustainable Finance Is the Smartest Bet for a Resilient Future

June 6, 2025 No Comments

Key Impact Points: FfD4 Must Move from Generic to Tailored Climate Finance The 4th International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4), set for July 2025, is a pivotal moment to reshape how climate finance reaches the world’s most vulnerable nations. With 40% of the global population living in climate-vulnerable zones,

Brazil Prosecutors Move to Block $180M Amazon Carbon Credit Deal Ahead of COP30

June 6, 2025 No Comments

Key Impact Points: Brazil’s Landmark Carbon Credit Deal Faces Legal Challenge Federal prosecutors in Brazil have filed a lawsuit seeking to annul a $180 million carbon offset deal signed in 2023 by the state of Para. The agreement, part of the LEAF Coalition initiative, was designed to conserve the Amazon

June 8 is World Oceans Day: Here’s What You Need to Know

June 3, 2025 No Comments

Key Impact Points: UN Ocean Conference 2025 Set to Drive SDG 14 Action The third UN Ocean Conference (UNOC), co-hosted by France and Costa Rica, takes place in Nice from June 9–13, 2025, under the theme: “Accelerating action and mobilizing all actors to conserve and sustainably use the ocean.” More