Jessica Pothering

It’s a sign of the times: Impact investors are anxious about the progress of the market (and the state of the world), but ...

Climate United is using $250 million from its $7 billion National Clean Investment Fund award to buy up to 500 electric drayage trucks, which are the vehicles used at ports to move shipping containers. The trucks will then be leased to small fleet operators at ports, starting in Long Beach and Los Angeles.

There wasn’t much to look at in terms of impact activity in Central America back in 2015. That’s when Daniel Buchbinder, founder of ...

A blended finance vehicle from the Asian Development Bank is paying to retire coal plants in Indonesia and the Philippines years ahead of schedule.

Capital doesn’t easily flow to where it’s most needed, as the failed negotiations at last week’s COP16 biodiversity summit in Cali, Colombia put ...

AgriCapital has for six years served as a bridge to formal financing for Colombia's nearly three million farmers, nearly half of whom live in poverty. The company leans on alternative sources of data and digital underwriting to meet the needs of the country's growers for financing to acquire equipment and inputs.

Hyderabad-based Marut Drones designs unmanned vehicles for crop planting, spraying and surveillance in rural India. It operates a fleet of about 750 drones in 14 states.

How much funding do wealthy countries owe to climate-vulnerable nations? And how does it get to them? The first week of COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, closed with stubborn rifts and discouragingly little progress on the summit's major challenges. Impact investors don't have a direct seat at the negotiating table. But Agents of Impact are working back channels to elevate private investors' role in ushering capital where it's most needed.

A debt investment for healthcare access in Southern Africa exposes the impact considerations investors face in different geographies and sectors.

The 700 islands that make up the Caribbean country of the Bahamas depend on the health of their marine ecosystems. The government has inked a deal to exchange $300 million of its sovereign debt for a lower-cost debt package from