Blog | The threat of a super El Niño exposes the limits of today’s climate finance
By Natalia Rubiano ‘’The world must treat [El Niño] as the urgent climate warning it is.’’ – Antonio Guterres, UN Secretary General El Niño, the naturally recurring climate pattern linked to warmer-than-average sea surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific, was officially declared on 11 June by the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration […]
Event | Join Us for LCAW 2026: Climate deals and cocktails
Think you can negotiate the ultimate climate deal? Prove it. This London Climate Action Week #LCAW2026, we’re ditching the PPTs for something far more interactive. On Tuesday 23 June, E Co. is hosting an exclusive, official LCAW evening at our London Bridge offices, and you’re invited to take a seat at the table. We’ll be […]
Project spotlight | Approved – 11238 – Land Degradation Neutrality Initiative in Southern Haiti
Communities in Haiti’s South Department are increasingly exposed to climate hazards, including hurricanes, floods, and droughts, with climate change driving increasingly erratic weather patterns characterised by long dry periods and heavy rainfall. We spoke to Senior consultant Anne Gander, who worked on the project: Land Degradation Neutrality Initiative in Southern Haiti. This was a GEF […]
Blog | The market came to us: Grant on 26 years at E Co.
On 28 March, E Co. turned 26. It is a milestone worth reflecting on because of what has been built, defended, and proven right over those years. We sat down with our founder, Grant Ballard-Tremeer – who has spent 26 years creating E Co. – for a candid conversation about the long game: what the […]
Blog | Channeling climate finance into waste-to-energy across Sub-Saharan Africa
By Abiodun Salako The world generates more than 2 billion tonnes of municipal solid waste each year, a figure projected to reach 3.4 billion tonnes by 2050 by the World Bank. While high-income countries produce the most waste per capita, it is low and middle-income countries that bear the greatest burden of mismanagement. Over […]
Blog | COP30 in Belém
By Paula Brufman COP30 closed last Friday in the Amazonian city of Belém after two weeks of intense and often chaotic negotiations. The final outcome – a package of 29 decisions collectively called the Belém Package, or “Global Mutirão” – will not be remembered as a historic breakthrough on the scale of Paris 2015. […]
Blog | Beyond the squeeze: Redefining partnership for greater impact
By Rowan Putman We’re all feeling it. The global landscape, whether in climate finance, international development, government, or the private sector, is going through a period of intense pressure. Budgets are tightening, priorities are shifting, and the call to “do more with less” has never been louder. For organisations like ours, whose vision is […]
Blog | From COP30 to contract: Turning climate ambition into bankable infrastructure
By Felipe Arenas Gallo Cities around the world stand at the front lines of the climate challenge. Responsible for over 70% of global greenhouse emissions, and home to approximately 4.4 billion people (56% of global population, and growing), they endure severe vulnerabilities such as extreme weather events, flooding, and heatwaves, yet they also hold […]
White paper
Welcome to E Co’s new White paper – Bridging the investability gap: Mobilising private capital for a resilient future The global climate finance gap is measured in the trillions. While trillions in private capital exist, it remains largely out of reach for high-impact adaptation and resilience projects. The central challenge is not a lack of […]
Blog | Turning pledges into projects: Enablers for climate action at COP30 and beyond
By Elena Remp and Florentia Loizides With COP30 on the horizon, the discourse on global climate finance has moved from ambition to delivery. While the Baku-to-Belém Roadmap and the New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG) laid the groundwork for a new architecture of climate action, progress at COP30 will hinge on cultivating the right enabling environment […]