Corporates + Environmental Finance
Over the past 12 months, Clarmondial has worked on a number of mandates to assess opportunities for environmental finance in collaboration with companies, tied to themes of conservation, Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR), agroforestry and climate change mitigation, adaptation and resilience, among others. We spoke with investors, donors and corporates (including some who have partnerships with […]
Financing agriculture value chains: a growing mismatch
During the first four years of Clarmondial, most of our work was focused on advising investors, from family offices and fund managers to companies and foundations, on their deal sourcing, due diligence and management. Gradually, and especially from late 2013, we switched our attention to working with project developers and companies. The main reason for […]
London roundtable on agri, forestry & other land use bonds
We are pleased to announce that we are co-hosting the following event: London, 22nd October, Roundtable on Climate Bonds Standard for Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU) Investment Roundtable for asset owners and managers, prospective issuers and underwriters The Climate Bonds Initiative, Banking Environment Initiative (BEI) and Swiss based Clarmondial invite you to a Roundtable on investment opportunities in Agriculture, […]
Bonds & books: a busy September
There are a number of exciting developments brewing. However I wanted to highlight two initiatives that we have been involved with that were announced in the past 2 weeks. Launch of the Climate Bonds AFOLU Guidance public consultation We’ve been pleased to be leading the development of sector-specific guidance for the Agriculture, Forestry and […]
Financing Climate Smart Agriculture
Tanja Havemann Below is my speech from the plenary on “Financing Climate Smart Agriculture”, given at the Global Innovations in Agriculture in Abu Dhabi (March 2015). I’m excited to be here and to share my thoughts about financing climate smart agriculture. In particular I’m keen to have an opportunity to discuss specifics: specific contexts and […]
Investing in fresh produce markets to promote local agricultural development
This is a longer version of an article that appeared in the Swiss Development Cooperation newsletter. The authors are Tanja Havemann, Rory Nightingale (Sasumua Holdings, Tanzania), Pete Veal (Syngenta, Switzerland) and Michael Cordes (Institute of Market Agents – IMASA, South Africa). The authors represent EAFM, which is seeking complementary regional partners and supporters, in particular fresh produce […]
Sharing experiences: Green microfinance
Our previous post on greening rural financial services has received a lot of positive feedback. We are working on a sequel, which will examine some specific case studies and attempt to draw some conclusions on potential lessons and best practices. In the meantime, we have been asked to send a call out to our network […]
Joining dots between rural finance and natural capital?
By Tanja Havemann Despite struggling with many of the same issues, the worlds of rural finance (microfinance institutions, producer organizations and Small & Medium-sized Enterprises – SMEs) and environmental finance (natural capital / valuation of ecosystem services) often feel segregated. There are clear opportunities for more collaboration in (a) assessing risk, and (b) designing new […]
Carbon… and Impact Investing?
Tanja Havemann & Samiksha Nair Oh Carbon Where Art Thou? Here are some clues to the current state of the global carbon markets: The biggest independent auditors are shutting down or greatly reducing operations, the former leaders of the global carbon markets are trying very hard to re-invent themselves, regulatory schemes driving internalization of carbon […]
Farewell to Naomi
We would like to say THANK YOU to Naomi Rosenthal, whose contract with Clarmondial finished at the end of May. During the past 12 months she has been a great help in organising the Natural Capital event and she also provided research support on agricultural commodities in East Asia and green initiatives in the micro […]