The mobilization of capital for the 21st-century transformation of food and agriculture, health and education, cities and ecosystems, may track five years or so behind renewable energy. But after moving very slow, capital can move very fast. The technology is solid. The models are proven. The payoffs are clear. we can meet the global financial goals for 2030.

And increasingly, the financing structures are in place. Here come credit ratings and third-party opinions, audits and standards, risk-sharing and securitization. What is the way to get to 2030? Step by step.

  • Investors, meet the global goals. ImpactAlpha’s new 2030 Finance hub will introduce the leaders and doers who are turning funding gaps into investment opportunities.
  • Global asset supertankers turn toward 2030. 
  • Bigger tickets, bigger funds.
  • #WeAreStillIn and halfway home. ImpactAlpha had reporters at COP23 in Bonn (or was it Fiji?) and One Planet in Paris. The takeaway: the world is moving on, and so are U.S. cities and states. Indeed, the U.S. is already halfway to the 2025 goal of reducing emissions by more than 26%.
  • Sustainable Development Goals arrive as universal impact investment framework.
  • The $12 trillion opportunity, every year. “Trade-off” is so last year. Abraaj’s Arif Naqvi declared the Sustainable Development Goals a “trade-on.” The global goals are the new global growth story.
  • The Abraaj way. Born in Pakistan and based in Dubai, Arif Naqvi in 15 years has grown Abraaj into $13.6 billion private-equity growth-markets powerhouses.
  • In the age of superabundant capital. More than $9 trillion of global government debt is held in negative-yielding bonds.
  • Finding finance “unicorns” with billion-dollar potential. 
  • Six trends to watch for 2030 #Signals. Progress against poverty is uneven.

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