💡 Access to reliable energy is key to livelihoods, economic opportunity, and climate resilience. Yet, more than 660 million people still live without electricity, majority in Sub-Saharan Africa. In the past five years, 35% of our co-financed projects contributed to increasing access to and production of affordable #CleanEnergy. ⚡ Since 2018, NDF has hosted EEP Africa, supporting early-stage clean energy solutions that improve livelihoods, advance climate action and gender equality. To date, EEP Africa has invested more than EUR 50 million in 133 projects across Southern and Eastern Africa. 🌍 One example is Millennium Engineers, a women-led clean energy company in Tanzania. With support from EEP Africa, the company has developed integrated solar solutions for the fisheries value chain around Lake Victoria, combining solar-powered fishing lamps and solar drying facilities. ☀️ 🐟 Their solar drying facilities help address challenges that disproportionately affect women sardine processors, including labour-intensive working conditions, post-harvest losses and limited opportunities to capture value from their work. As founder Diana Mbogo explains: “Although women’s labour is essential to sustaining the sardine value chain, they capture only a limited share of its economic value.” Read more 👉 https://ndf.foleon.com/…/results-report-2025/results-area-03 #ClimateFinance #SustainableDevelopment #GenderEquality #ClimateAction

Innovative finance is creating new opportunities for nature conservation. 🌊 🐢 📊 As an early and catalytic investor, NDF committed EUR 15 million to Climate Investor Two, an innovative blended finance facility focused on climate-resilient infrastructure in emerging markets. Through CI2, NDF helped support the largest debt-for-nature conversion in history, to generate long-term funding for the protection of the Galápagos marine ecosystem. 🌎 This demonstrates how catalytic capital can mobilise private investment and deliver lasting benefits for climate, nature and communities with Nordic and global partners. 🌱 👉 Read more about CI2: https://shorturl.at/KbxFH #BlendedFinance #ClimateFinance #NaturePositive #Biodiversity #SustainableDevelopment #Galapagos

🔸 At the Super Pollutant Reception at St James’s Palace during London Climate Action Week, Satu Santala represented NDF among global leaders from government, finance, business, academia and civil society. During the reception, she met His Majesty King Charles III and shared how NDF operates as a joint Nordic climate finance institution, supporting high-impact climate investments in lower-income countries. 🌍 🔸 Discussions at the reception reinforced a clear and urgent message: tackling super pollutants is one of the most effective levers to slow global warming. Reducing methane and other super pollutants could avoid up to 0.6°C of global warming by 2050, while delivering immediate co-benefits for public health, food systems, and economic resilience. 💡 Prime Minister of Barbados Mia Mottley highlighted the importance of rapid action to protect vulnerable communities, while COP31 President Murat Kurum emphasised methane reduction, zero waste and circular economy solutions as central to an implementation-focused COP31. Thank you for inviting us to take part to these crucial discussions. 🤝 #SustainableDevelopment #ClimateChange #LondonClimateWeek #LCAW2026