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Spain’s first social impact fund, the Huruma Fund, helps to fill the funding gap for smallholder and marginalised farmers in partner countries. The fund – a partnership between Spain, the European Union and private sector investors – shows how public resources can ...
Kingston, Jamaica - The Government of Jamaica, through the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service held a visibility ceremony, on the Financing Agreement with the European Union (EU), to address Environmental and Climate Change challenges through the improved ...
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The European Investment Bank (EIB), the EU bank, continued to support Latin America and the Caribbean, providing €742 million of financing for 11 projects in 2021. These funds contribute to sustainable and inclusive development in the region, and to promoting climate action ...
The European Development Days (EDD) are Europe’s leading forum on international partnerships, organised by the European Commission. The forum, which is headquartered in Brussels, brings key actors together ...
Since 2013, the European Union Latin America Investment Facility (LAIF) has contributed to the program for ‘Promoting Climate Change Adaptation and Integrated Water Resources Management Investment for the water and sanitation sector in Latin America’, ...
The sustainable finance training services are part of the effort to fulfil UNEP FI's mission to "identify, promote and adopt environmental and sustainability best practices at all levels of financial institutions' operations".
Since 2007, UNEP FI has offered an Online Course on "Climate Change: Risks and Opportunities for the Financial Sector".
Launch of a competition to identify and propose urban planning and investment projects. AECID, with the support of the European Commission, is launching a competition in the framework of the LAIF City Life initiative.
The COVID-19 pandemic has generated important changes in much of the financial markets, where sustainable instruments have shown significant growth in Latin America, almost doubling the number of issues and amounts of debt during the period 2020 - 2021.
UNEP, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), IDB invest, the eco.business Development Facility and its Sustainability Academy are organising a series of webinars on "Financing the Circular Economy", which will be held in Spanish from June to October 2022.
