Blog | The aid model is broken. It’s time for a climate finance revolution.
By Rowan Putman How the end of an era can catalyse a more resilient and impactful approach to funding climate action. 2025 has been an eventful year in the world of development and climate finance to say the least. The unfortunate developments in the US and wider afield sent shockwaves through the climate and development […]
Blog | A gender lens on the socio-bioeconomy
By Juliana Castro Escobar and Aurelio Padovezi This blog aims to highlight the need for a gender approach in projects seeking to leverage socio-bioeconomy. In the face of intensifying climate change, biodiversity loss, and growing inequality, the concept of a socio-bioeconomy is gaining traction as a technological fix and a transformative path. Beyond the […]
Blog | Funding urban climate action: an overview
By Patricia Katto Introduction For just over a month, E Co. created a platform for both industry professionals and the wider public to come together and explore the critical relationship between cities and climate change. This took shape in our live series, “Investing in cities: funding urban climate action.” Cities are complex systems made […]
GCF insight #29
Welcome to your 29th GCF insight report – The role of stakeholder mobilisation in transforming cities sustainably. Cities are central to both the causes of and solutions to climate change. As hubs of human activity and economic power, they generate up to 80% of global GDP, but also account for the majority of global greenhouse […]
Blog | Banking on net zero: How finance can drive climate action in Africa and the Middle East
By Mouna Lyoubi Introduction Following the Paris Agreement (COP21), climate mitigation efforts and green transitions of economic sectors have gained momentum. This has been influenced by a range of stakeholders, including financial institutions (FIs). Nevertheless, the role of financial institutions in contributing to climate change is also becoming more pronounced. The financial sector contributes […]
Blog | Moldova’s great green hope: How restoration can revive soils, lakes, and livelihoods
By Aurelio Padovezi (E Co.) and Tobias Schnitzler (ADA) Nested between Romania and Ukraine, the small landlocked country of Moldova is endowed with one of the world’s most prized natural resources: the world’s most fertile soil, Chernozem. Dark, fertile, and bursting with nutrients, this ‘black gold’ has made Moldova an agricultural powerhouse for centuries. […]
Blog | Powering up the socio-bioeconomy through climate finance
By Aurelio Padovezi and Ignacia Holmes As the world confronts the climate crisis, the socio-bioeconomy concept is gaining traction as a technological fix and a transformative path that centres ecosystems, culture, and people. At its core, the socio-bioeconomy is a strategic response to climate change that integrates renewable biological resources, circular production, and sustainable […]
Blog | Company retreat: A break or a breakthrough?
By Rowan Putman The power of dispersion: how diversity strengthens us A deeply held personal conviction, and now an undeniable reality is that an organisation that serves all parts of the world should be made up of people that come from all parts of the world. Logic and ethics haven’t necessarily been enough to […]
Blog | Training for collaborative, creative thinking for climate finance
By Ellie La Trobe-Hogan “The aim must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who see in the service to the community their highest life problem” – Albert Einstein Einstein understood that any ‘education’, be it a training course, workshop or degree, needs to ensure that the individuals come out the other side […]
Blog | Managing heat wave disaster risks: Strategies to mitigate a warming world
By Ari Rakatama Today, heat waves have transitioned from occasional events to persistent and intensified threats that endanger lives, economies, and ecosystems. Heat waves, characterised by extended periods of excessively high temperatures, often exacerbated by humidity, are particularly hazardous in urban environments due to the ‘urban heat island’ effect. Here, concrete buildings, asphalt roads, […]