Financing Plastic Action in Emerging Markets: Addressing Barriers to Investment

May 15, 2021

In this white paper prepared for the Global Plastic Action Partnership at the World Economic Forum, we focus on the barriers to investing private capital in emerging markets and how financial institutions can address them.

Momentum and action by both international and local institutions, from private and public sector, are demonstrating that the barriers can be overcome.

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Circulate Capital: 2020 Year In Review

May 1, 2021

In 2020, Circulate Capital Ocean Fund invested US $40M in seven companies in India and Indonesia.

By investing in solutions, we can set a course for a more inclusive, circular economy and stop the flow of plastic into the ocean.

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Solutions To The Plastic Pollution Crisis Will Drive The Next Wave Of Climate-Tech Innovation

April 27, 2021

As mainstream investors scramble to catch up to the burgeoning possibilities of climate-tech investing, one area of enormous opportunity stands out — circular plastic. To drive transformational change, we need to break siloed-thinking and invest holistically in the systems we aim to affect. Some of the most exciting innovations happening today include new technologies that are disrupting a cross-section of supply chains and sectors from materials and fashion to food waste to reusable business models while accelerating the circular economy in plastics. And all of them have a significant and direct impact on climate change.

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Circulate Capital Identified as an Emerging Impact Manager to Watch on the ImpactAssets 50 (IA50) Global List

February 15, 2021

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The Intersection of Climate Investing and Circular Plastics in South and Southeast Asia: Preventing All Plastic Leakage in India and Indonesia Could Avoid 150 Million Tonnes of GHG by 2030

January 15, 2021

The urgency to address climate change is escalating as global warming now poses an ever-increasing threat to lives, livelihoods, and biodiversity. Greenhouse gases (GHG) in the atmosphere have risen to record levels not seen in three million years. Investment in climate-resilient infrastructure and a transition to a low-carbon future is critical to drive change while presenting attractive investment fundamentals.

The waste, recycling, and circular economy industry presents a specific and unique opportunity to investors as the world transitions to a low-carbon economy. Apart from increasing economic and environmental resiliency, the sector provides social benefits through near-term job creation as well. 

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2030 Impact Projections

January 1, 2021

Circulate Capital Ocean Fund’s First Year Impact and 2030 Projections

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