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The Brief: Half-billion dollar climate resilience funds

Greetings Agents of Impact! In today’s Brief: Featured: The Liist Trio of $500 million impact funds tackle climate resilience in Asia, regenerative farmland …

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Featured: The Liist

Trio of $500 million impact funds tackle climate resilience in Asia, regenerative farmland and green infrastructure. Climate finance in Asia. Green infrastructure in the US. Regenerative farmland in Europe, Australia and North America. This month’s Liist of actively raising impact funds features three $500 million impact funds supporting the green transition. First up: responsAbility Investments' fund for Asia’s energy transition and decarbonization. The Zurich-based impact investment manager, known for its commitment to economic resilience and opportunity in emerging markets, recognizes the threat that climate change poses to lives and livelihoods worldwide. “Amid the protracted wave of extreme heat in Southeast Asia, responsAbility’s new $500 million Asia-focused climate fund is right on time,” reports ImpactAlpha’s Jessica Pothering from Bangkok, where today's temperature of 90 degrees Fahrenheit (32 Celsius) marked a major break in the heat.

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VertueLab’s Aina Abiodun on the opportunity in local climate innovation. On the latest Agents of Impact podcast, VertueLab’s Aina Abiodun joins Sherrell Dorsey to discuss how the VertueLab accelerator is using a racial justice lens to build an inclusive climate tech ecosystem in the US Pacific Northwest.

Dealflow: Refugee-Lens Investing

UN kicks off $100 million fund to protect displaced communities from climate shocks. There are more than 110 million displaced people worldwide – an all time high, according to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. More than 70% are from highly climate-vulnerable countries. "Many of the countries that have been the most generous in accepting refugees are also the most impacted by the climate crisis,” says Filippo Grandi of UNHCR. The organization has launched a fund to cushion the impacts of climate change for displaced people and their host communities. It will direct capital to climate-related projects in Bangladesh, Chad, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique and other countries where the UNHCR is responding to conflict-related displacement. 

Short Signals: What We’re Reading

🇵🇸 Investing in Palestine. A coalition called Palestine Emerging has released a blueprint for the long term reconstruction and economic development of Gaza and the West Bank. Among those involved, according to The New York Times, are the Bank of Palestine’s Hashim Shawa, Samer Khoury of Consolidated Contractors International, Mohammed Abukhaizaran of Arab Hospitals Group, and Baron Frankal of Portland Trust, which is chaired by Sir Ronald Cohen. “We are proposing to connect Gaza to the world over the long term,” Chris Choa of the London design firm Outcomist told the Times. Palestine Emerging says the framework is intended “to guide actions related to economic stabilization, infrastructure networks, social assets, economic growth, soft power and community engagement.” (Palestine Emerging)

Agents of Impact: Follow the Talent

Tom Kalil, previously chief innovation officer of Schmidt Futures, becomes CEO of Renaissance Philanthropy… Lauren Hadi, previously with the Schott Foundation for Public Education, joins the Decolonizing Wealth Project as vice president of resource mobilization… Nicole Sonderegger, a former energy programs director at Groundswell, joins Opportunity Finance Network as vice president of climate and environmental programs.

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