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Sustainable finance

Sustainable finance

Taking stock: The past and present of the Luxembourg Green Exchange

In conversation with Julie Becker, the creator of the world’s first sustainability-focused trading platform, the Luxembourg Green Exchange.

 
A farmer harvests rice at Bontomanai village in South Sulawesi, Indonesia. Tri Saputro, CIFOR

The challenge of achieving land-use transformation at scale

Mobilizing public and private finance for land-use transformation in agriculture in order to achieve climate change goals.

 
Axel Fassio, CIFOR

Investors are mobilized to protect biodiversity, land and climate

Three key events on natural capital investment take place this week in Europe.

 
Old architecture in Luxembourg City, the country's namesake capital. Andreas Wigmostad Bjerkhaug, Flickr

Insights into Luxembourg’s green growth

Luxembourg Ministry of Environment, Climate and Sustainable Development's André Weidenhaupt sees the country’s future with fewer cars and more finance.

 
In 2018, more than USD 44 billion was raised from carbon pricing, including carbon taxes, according to the World Bank. Trending Topics 2019, Flickr

A brief explainer on carbon markets

What are carbon markets, and how do they work? This short article explains carbon taxes, cap-and-trade, voluntary markets and more.

 
Acacia trees being planted in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Axel Fassio, CIFOR

To adapt to climate change are vulnerable countries getting the money they need?

New reports break down what type of finance vulnerable countries are receiving, finding that not enough is going toward adaptive measures.

 
The government of Luxembourg has invested EUR 1.9 billion in the revitalization of Belval. Tobias Mandt, Flickr

From industrial landscape to City of Science: A portrait of Belval

The collapse of the steel industry hit Luxembourg's Belval region hard. Now a €2 billion project seeks to revitalize it through research and innovation.

 
From the end of 2020 onward, the European Investment Bank has committed to aligning all finance activities with the Paris Agreement and help bring EUR 1 trillion into sustainable investment by 2030. Philippe Put, Flickr

Martin Berg on sustainable finance: Where does it stand?

The EIB's sustainable finance expert expounds on technologies, reporting and de-risking investment to beat the climate crisis.

 
Calvert Impact Capital's investors range from financial institutions to faith-based organizations to individuals. Pictures of money, Flickr

Upon impact, with Justin Conway

An impact investment veteran gives the state of the sector, from the importance of transparency to how youth are changing money flows.

 
West Kalimantan tropical forest

What to think of California’s new Tropical Forest Standard

Tropical forests are vital to limiting global warming – and California's controversial Tropical Forest Standard aims at keeping them in place.

 
Local farmers practicing sustainable land-use in Kalimantan, Indonesia. Mokhamad Edliadi, CIFOR

Demonstrating the environmental and social impacts of sustainable land-use financing

The why, what and how of financing sustainable land-use, to transform agriculture and protect forests in a cost-effective way.

 
As the world's last remaining grand duchy, Luxembourg has one of the highest rates of GDP per capita. Alfonso Jimenez, Flickr

Luxembourg’s environment minister on the tiny country’s outsize goals

Carole Dieschbourg tells how the world’s 20th-smallest country is becoming a climate leader through energy-system transformation and sustainable finance.

 
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