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Coverage of capital flows into renewable assets, climate funds, project finance, M&A, incentives and the risk signals investors watch.
Global natural capital investment reached $61.4 billion over the past decade, with Australia attracting $6.3 billion of that, making it a popular destination. Policy stability, land scale, and carbon market opportunities drove capital inflows, but controversies over "greenwashing" also emerged.
In the first week of July 2026, global clean energy transactions were active. Geothermal drilling startup Quaise Energy secured $144 million in funding, virtual power plant operator Axle Energy completed a €21 million Series A round, and giants like Blackstone and EQT spent billions of dollars acquiring grid infrastructure assets, indicating that capital is accelerating its shift from traditional oil and gas to new power system-related technologies.
Despite the tightening macroeconomic environment, global clean energy investment has shown resilience. However, geopolitical tensions, policy reversals, and supply chain bottlenecks are complicating the trend. GlobalData analysts point out that energy security does not automatically equate to clean energy, and coal investment is also rebounding. This article reviews investment flows, performance across different technology sectors, and the outlook for the latter half of the 2020s.
Geopolitics, new regulations, and stronger policy impetus are reshaping market risks and opportunities. This article focuses on three large mining companies with sustainable investment theme exposure in clean energy, infrastructure, and environment: China Gold International Resources, Mader Group, and Genesis Minerals, analyzing their business models, financial performance, and ESG integration.
The EU Council has adopted amendments to the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR), adding a "transition" category that allows fossil fuel companies to be included in sustainable financial products under certain conditions. This policy adjustment aims to simplify transparency rules while guiding capital toward genuine transition activities, but has sparked new discussions about the risk of greenwashing.
The latest report from the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) shows that the global green economy market value exceeded $10 trillion for the first time in 2025, with green revenue growth hitting a new high since 2022, driven primarily by electrification and energy security.
In 2025, the world's top 65 banks provided $906 billion in financing to fossil fuel companies, an 8% increase year-on-year, of which $508 billion was used directly to expand oil, gas, and coal production capacity. The report accused Trump's anti-climate agenda of weakening banks' incentives to shift to clean energy.
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) supports Mongolia’s agricultural sector through a green economy financing instrument, reflecting how climate finance is expanding from single-emission-reduction projects to broader resilience-building in the real economy. For the energy and climate sector, this case shows that green finance is increasingly serving cross-cutting areas such as agriculture, heating, distributed energy, and resource efficiency.