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#CleanTech #funding is changing in #Canada. Check out our latest blogs on the topic: 💡 https://lnkd.in/gVr7eQdK, and 💡https://lnkd.in/ecCBNx4f (#ESG, #SDGs, #investment #tax #credits).

Our public bond issue is GSS-certified, guaranteeing responsible use of funds for green and sustainable projects. It aims to finance projects with a high social and environmental impact in line with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). For more information, visit the operation's website: https://lnkd.in/dYiS7Ath #Investment #GreenFinance #SustainableEconomy

WBAF FINANCIAL INCLUSION CENTER – shares a working paper of the European Investment Fund (EIF) with its members: EIF Working Paper 2024/98, Cleantech Industry Survey 2023: Financing, Regulatory, Innovation and Human Capital Issues. This paper highlights the main challenges faced by the Cleantech sector. Key barriers include limited access to external finance, with many respondents expecting to raise significant funds in the next five years. Additionally, stringent and uncertain standards and regulations create operational challenges. Expanding our understanding of the Cleantech sector can enhance targeted support schemes to accelerate clean technology adoption, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and improve environmental sustainability. This is the latest paper resulting from a project on “The cleantech industry in the European Green Deal: policy challenges and the finance landscape for SMEs” (CLEU), initiated by EIF’s Market Assessment and Research Division. Funded by the EIB Institute’s University Research Sponsorship (EIBURS) programme, the project aims to enhance our understanding of the Cleantech sector and improve the design of support schemes to accelerate the green transition in the EU. Here you can download the report free from the Toolkit Area: www.id.wbaforum.org

WBAF FINANCIAL INCLUSION CENTER – shares a working paper of the European Investment Fund (EIF) with its members: EIF Working Paper 2024/98, Cleantech Industry Survey 2023: Financing, Regulatory, Innovation and Human Capital Issues. This paper highlights the main challenges faced by the Cleantech sector. Key barriers include limited access to external finance, with many respondents expecting to raise significant funds in the next five years. Additionally, stringent and uncertain standards and regulations create operational challenges. Expanding our understanding of the Cleantech sector can enhance targeted support schemes to accelerate clean technology adoption, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and improve environmental sustainability. This is the latest paper resulting from a project on “The cleantech industry in the European Green Deal: policy challenges and the finance landscape for SMEs” (CLEU), initiated by EIF’s Market Assessment and Research Division. Funded by the EIB Institute’s University Research Sponsorship (EIBURS) programme, the project aims to enhance our understanding of the Cleantech sector and improve the design of support schemes to accelerate the green transition in the EU. Here you can download the report free from the Toolkit Area: www.id.wbaforum.org

With the Clean Technology ITCs announced in the budget last week, Canada might feel like it can sit back and watch the capital roll in. But it won't at the scale we need it to because we are still behind other countries - we haven't implemented the criteria for what qualifies as sustainable investment. Learn more about the need for a sustainable finance taxonomy by reading the open letter from my Clean50 colleagues as submitted to Ministers Freeland, Guibeault & Wilkinson in Gavin Pitchford's post below. Can you also lend your voice to mobilizing a sustainable finance taxonomy in Canada?

Words matter! Definitions matter! What qualifies as a "sustainable" or "clean" or "green" investment - and what doesn't - matters. Which is why 230 Canada's Clean50 leaders, another 60 senior executives, and 200+ organizations have today asked the Federal Government to get on with implementing a sustainable finance taxonomy - so investors will know what qualifies - and what does not. Read our letter and the hundreds of signatures here: https://lnkd.in/gGuasaGa Literally every other developed nation has one - Canada is alone in not having established these definitions. It matters. It's limiting Canadian organizations' ability to raise money - for clean tech companies to grow - and for organizations to transition to new, more sustainable models.

The Hera Group has started the year with a new milestone in sustainable finance: as first Italian company to issue a green bond in 2014, Hera successfully launched its fourth "green" bond today. With this issue, Hera has once again given the market an opportunity to finance the Group’s strategic projects aimed at the green transition and aligned with the Ue #Taxonomy, once again confirming itself internationally as a reference company for sustainable finance. The green bond, that amounts to a total of 500 million euro, repayable in 6.5 years, consists of senior, non-convertible, unsecured notes, intended for circulation among qualified investors. The issue attracted significant interest also from international investors, receiving orders almost 5.5 times the amount offered. This bond, covered by its “Euro Medium Term Note Programme” (EMTN) bond issue plan, recently updated and increased in its maximum amount, respects the Group’s Green Financing Framework (GFF), prepared on the basis of ICMA principles, aligned with the criteria of the European Taxonomy and certified by an independent firm. More information: https://lnkd.in/d5rbb9S2

Sustainable financing: Payment for ecosystem services (PES) - Explaining the possible revenue mechanisms from healthy marine ecosystem services.

➡️ Why wait to engage and support a UN organization that in 2023 provided sustainable financing support to 41 of the 45 least developed countries—when we all recognize that the lion’s share of sustainable investment continues to avoid precisely these markets? ⬜ More: https://uncdf.link/EB24 #LDCs #LDCsDay

WBAF FINANCIAL INCLUSION CENTER – shares a working paper of the European Investment Fund (EIF) with its members: EIF Working Paper 2024/98, Cleantech Industry Survey 2023: Financing, Regulatory, Innovation and Human Capital Issues. This paper highlights the main challenges faced by the Cleantech sector. Key barriers include limited access to external finance, with many respondents expecting to raise significant funds in the next five years. Additionally, stringent and uncertain standards and regulations create operational challenges. Expanding our understanding of the Cleantech sector can enhance targeted support schemes to accelerate clean technology adoption, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and improve environmental sustainability. This is the latest paper resulting from a project on “The cleantech industry in the European Green Deal: policy challenges and the finance landscape for SMEs” (CLEU), initiated by EIF’s Market Assessment and Research Division. Funded by the EIB Institute’s University Research Sponsorship (EIBURS) programme, the project aims to enhance our understanding of the Cleantech sector and improve the design of support schemes to accelerate the green transition in the EU. Here you can download the report free from the Toolkit Area: www.id.wbaforum.org