Vulcan lithium: DFIs and ECAs combine for critical minerals
The EIB is anchoring another major DFI-ECA package for a major European energy transition project. Can it succeed where earlier complex mega-projects have struggled?
The EIB is anchoring another major DFI-ECA package for a major European energy transition project. Can it succeed where earlier complex mega-projects have struggled?
Equinor and Polenergia have closed a landmark project financing for Baltyk 2&3 amid a flurry of activity in the offshore wind sector. Poland has big ambitions to...
IFC has extended $300 million to Pakistan’s Reko Diq copper-gold mine. This could suggest that DFIs are expanding their support for the minerals industry as demand ramps...
Argentina has secured a major investment programme with the support of the World Bank, the IMF and the IDB. This is a step on from the economic crisis that engulfed the...
Rising construction costs and demand are putting a strain on the economics of social housing projects. According to the Council of Europe Development Bank’s head of projects, Rainer Lovato, DFIs can use longer tenors, concessional lending and blended finance structures to bridge the affordability gap.