Jessica Pothering
Freelance Writer and Editor at Freelance
Writer at ImpactAlpha
Journalist and wanderlustian. Writer for @ImpactAlpha. Roots in Charleston. Heart in Baltimore. Life in Amsterdam.
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5 days ago |
impactalpha.com | Jessica Pothering
A 750-megawatt solar project on the Painted Desert in the US is a model for the just climate transition. The project, led by Indigenous-owned and -led renewable energy Navajo Power, is based near the site of the Navajo Generating Station coal-fired power plant, which for 45 years generated and channeled power across the Southwest. “The Navajo Nation was the battery for the Southwest.
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1 week ago |
impactalpha.com | Jessica Pothering
London-based Green Finance Institute and the United Nations seek to mobilize $200 million in private capital for natural ecosystems by adapting or replicating promising nature-based financing models. Revenues for Nature’s first cohort includes Finance Earth’s loan fund for small fisheries; 3Keel’s network model for restoring degraded land in Europe; and an effort to replicate the Environmental Policy Innovation Center’s approach to wetlands habitat “offset” financing in Central America.
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1 week ago |
impactalpha.com | Jessica Pothering
When the first Latin American Impact Investment Summit took place in 2018, the region’s impact investing ecosystem was largely built around known capital channels—established fund managers in the US and Europe—and the major markets of Mexico and Brazil. But smaller ecosystems were quietly coming together; fund managers from the region were designing new investment theses based on their local knowledge.
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1 week ago |
impactalpha.com | Jessica Pothering |Erik Stein
The Japan International Cooperation Agency earlier this year made very clear its opinion on the investment opportunity in Latin America. The Japanese development finance institution committed $1 billion to IDB Invest to launch the JICA Trust Fund Achieving Development of Latin America and the Caribbean, or TADAC, a co-investment fund for the two organizations.
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2 weeks ago |
impactalpha.com | Jessica Pothering
The last few years may be remembered as the “before times” for blended finance. After 2023’s record-breaking year for mixed capital stacks and catalytic commitments in emerging markets, blended finance transactions last year fell by more than 20%, or nearly $5 billion.
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