Environmental Finance: Global South investors feel urgency and pessimism for COP29

Actis Partner and Head of Sustainability, Shami Nissan, was interviewed by Jennifer Forrest of Environmental Finance and was quoted in the publication’s resulting article on COP29 and the need for climate financing to markets in the global south. Click here to read the article and read on below for commentary from Shami.

Shami Nissan, Partner and Head of Sustainability at Actis, commented:

“The quantitative climate finance goal needs to be of the right magnitude and pinpointing that it needs to flow to the Global South.

“It needs to also be said that there is a role and an absolute imperative for private sector to get involved if we’re going to avert worst case scenarios.”