GREEN FINANCE
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NCBA, Salvador Caetano Partner on EV Financing Scheme
NCBA Bank has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Salvador Caetano Kenya Limited, one of East Africa’s leading automotive distributors, introducing a structured asset financing scheme covering a range of passenger and commercial vehicles, including electric vehicles (EVs). The partnership extends NCBA’s dealer financing ecosystem and positions the bank to capture growing demand for EV financing as Kenya’s cleaner mobility…
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The GreenShift Podcast | Who is Funding Africa’s Green Transition and Who Benefits?
Ambition alone won’t solve climate change. It takes capital, and across Africa, that capital is finally moving in meaningful ways. In Kenya, programmes like FLLoCA are redirecting climate funding away from top-down institutions and toward the counties and communities that experience climate disruption most directly. The Upper Tana-Nairobi Water Fund goes further, turning conservation into an economic engine: over 260,000…
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Family Bank Pumps KES 21 Billion into Sustainability Initiatives
Family Bank Group is scaling up its environmental and social investments, deploying KES 21 billion in sustainability-linked financing as the mid-tier lender reported record profits for the year ended December 2025. The bank’s growing ESG agenda is targeting loans above KES 50 million, in what management describes as a deliberate shift towards supporting a low-carbon economy, a notable pivot for…
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KCB Bank Kenya Secures $96.9 Million Green Climate Fund Approval to Finance MSMEs and Farmers
KCB Bank Kenya has received approval for a $96.9 million (KShs. 12.5 billion) financing facility from the Green Climate Fund (GCF) to expand access to climate-smart technologies for micro, small and medium enterprises and smallholder farmers across Kenya. The blended finance package, combining concessional lending, a guarantee, and a grant, will be deployed under the Climate Smart Technology programme. It…
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NCBA Plants 1.3 Million Trees, Mobilizes KES 9.5 Billion in Green Financing
NCBA Group PLC has mobilized KES 9.5 billion in green and sustainable financing, planted more than 1.3 million trees, and empowered 70,536 women and youth through skills and mentorship programs. The bank disclosed this on Thursday alongside its full-year 2025 financial results. The figures mark some of the most concrete progress yet under the lender’s “Change The Story” sustainability strategy,…
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FarmCarbon Closes $53 Million to Bring Climate Finance to Smallholder Farmers Across Africa and Asia
A new climate finance vehicle designed to put clean energy technology in the hands of smallholder farmers has closed its first round of funding, marking one of the most ambitious attempts yet to channel institutional capital into agricultural methane reduction in the developing world. Sistema.bio announced on March 17 that it had closed $53 million in initial funding for FarmCarbon,…
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I&M Bank and Sweden’s Sida Seal $30 Million Green Finance Deal
I&M Bank has secured a USD 30 million green lending facility backed by a guarantee from Sweden’s International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), in what the bank is calling a significant step in expanding climate-aligned financing across Kenya. The partnership, formalised at a signing ceremony in Nairobi on Wednesday, is structured around a USD 15 million guarantee from Sida, with a…
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Dilip Pal: How Green Financing is Powering the Future of Kenya’s Clean Energy
Kenya’s energy and capital markets are changing in ways that quietly shape daily life, from how phones stay connected in remote areas to how investors think about risk and return. As the country deepens its commitment to clean power, green financing is emerging as a practical tool to fund that transition at scale. Kenya already stands out in Africa for…
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Kenya Raises $1.2 Billion In Historic Green Bond – And Here Is What It Means For You
Something big happened last week – and most Kenyans probably missed it.On March 11, 2026, the Kenyan government did something no Kenyan government has ever done before. It walked onto the global financial stage and sold a sovereign green bond – raising $1.2 billion (roughly Ksh 155 billion) in a single move. Not only that, but investors from around the…
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KCB Deepens ESG Push with KSh 50 Billion Green Loan Portfolio Across East Africa
KCB Group PLC has cemented its position as a leader in sustainable finance within East Africa, announcing a significant KSh 50 billion issuance in green loans across its operations in Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda. This milestone, detailed in the Group’s FY2025 investor update, underscores a strategic pivot toward integrating Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) principles into the heart of…
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