2012 Climate Change Impact Investing 
James Militzer
DECEMBER 18, 2024
Each December since 2012, we’ve selected 12 of our most-read articles from the past year, inviting readers to vote for the ones that influenced their thinking the most. As we bid farewell to an eventful year, it’s time for NextBillions annual tradition: our Most Influential Articles of the Year contest.
Edouard Stenger
MAY 24, 2017
Part of this revolution is the meteoritic growth of green bonds, which were started in 2007 by the World Bank and the European Investment Bank. If growth was slow from the first green bond issuance to 2012, things have accelerated since. Green bonds are indeed often oversubscribed due to their success.
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James Militzer
DECEMBER 21, 2022
NextBillion has been running our “ Most Influential Article of the Year ” contest since 2012, selecting the 12 most-read articles we’ve published each year and inviting readers to vote for their favorites. From Impact Investing to ‘Impact-First’ Investing: Seven Ways Investors Can Take a Holistic Lifecycle Approach to Impact.
Chris Hall
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
First founded in 2012 as a crowdfunding platform aiming to finance decentralised solar energy projects in Africa, the firm rapidly became a success story, progressively turning into a sizeable private debt management company financing renewable energy projects across emerging markets.
Jon Hale
FEBRUARY 18, 2022
Sustainable Funds Universe, 2012–21 Source: Morningstar Direct. Sustainable Funds Flows and Assets, 2012–21 Source: Morningstar Direct. But just as the latter have gotten more substantive over time, so too can sustainable fund impact reports. Data as of Dec. Note: Includes funds that have been liquidated during this period.
Chris Hall
JANUARY 19, 2024
David Grimaud, CEO, Bamboo Capital Partners, makes the case for stronger commitments to impact investing to deliver on the UN SDGs. On November 2023, the draft revised Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) standards on climate change and energy were published ahead of COP28 (the climate COP).
James Militzer
MAY 3, 2022
ESG’s momentum is due to accelerating climate change, deteriorating natural resources, decreasing labor rights, increasing corruption and other negative externalities that unsustainable and unethical business practices have caused. The chart below illustrates these findings: Source: Fair Finance India.
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