We invest in efforts to conserve the planet’s natural resources to address climate change and its adverse effects on communities

Climate

Our 2024 Community Investment Note® Impact Report, "Taking Action for Communities & Climate"

Calvert Impact's 2024 impact report, including new impact data, stories, and photos from their Community Investment Note portfolio.

10/23/24

Financial Advisors

Q2 2024 Report

Our Q2 2024 quarterly report, featuring quarterly updates on our portfolio and borrowers, as well as highlights from our work throughout the quarter.

08/15/24 | By Justin Conway

Financial Advisors

Q1 2024 Report

Our Q1 2024 quarterly report, featuring quarterly updates on our portfolio and borrowers, as well as highlights from our work throughout the quarter.

05/15/24 | By Justin Conway

Financial Advisors

Q4 2023 Report

Our Q4 2023 quarterly report, featuring quarterly updates on our portfolio and borrowers, as well as highlights from our work throughout the quarter.

02/15/24 | By Justin Conway

Strategic Updates

2023 Year in Review

After sharing our 2023-2025 Strategic Plan in January, Calvert Impact executed on its strategy to bring new products to market to increase connectivity between the capital markets and communities.

12/21/23 | By Jennifer Pryce

Financial Advisors

Q3 2023 Report

Our Q3 2023 quarterly report, featuring quarterly updates on our portfolio and borrowers, as well as highlights from our work throughout the quarter.

11/15/23 | By Justin Conway

Climate

Calvert Impact releases 2023 Impact Report: 'Demonstrate, Educate, Transform'

Report shows cumulative impact of Community Investment Note® and new products

11/07/23

Impact Management

Our 2023 Impact Report, "Demonstrate, Educate, Transform"

Our 2023 Impact Report features the impact we and our portfolio partners have had on markets, the environment, and communities around the world throughout 2022 and 2023.

11/06/23 | By Caitlin Rosser

Climate United Announces Inaugural Board of Directors

More than a dozen leaders in clean energy, sustainable finance, and community organizing ready to oversee strategy and implementation of National Clean Investment Fund

10/27/23

Calvert Impact closes initial offering of Cut Carbon Note

The green bond drives decarbonization of buildings and expands the number of investors contributing to the clean energy transition.

10/18/23

Climate United Submits Bid to Manage Part of EPA’s $14 billion National Clean Investment Fund

Climate United today announced the submission of its proposal to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s National Clean Investment Fund award competition, part of the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund.

10/12/23

Impact Management

Success Story: Eureka Recycling

In 2016, Calvert Impact provided financing to Eureka Recycling, a zero-waste nonprofit based in Minneapolis, Minnesota dedicated to demonstrating that waste is preventable – not inevitable.

09/20/23 | By Caitlin Rosser

Financial Advisors

Q2 2023 Report

Our Q2 2023 quarterly report, featuring quarterly updates on our portfolio and borrowers, as well as highlights from our work throughout the quarter.

08/15/23 | By Justin Conway

Financial Advisors

Q1 2023 Report

Our Q1 2023 quarterly report, featuring quarterly updates on our portfolio and borrowers, as well as highlights from our work throughout the quarter.

05/15/23 | By Justin Conway

Financial Advisors

Q4 2022 Report

Our Q4 2022 quarterly report, featuring quarterly updates on our portfolio and borrowers, as well as highlights from our work throughout the quarter.

02/15/23 | By Justin Conway

Borrower Spotlight

Borrower Spotlight: Sustainable Companies Supported by eco.business Fund

The eco.business Fund supports biodiversity conservation, sustainable use of natural resources, and climate change mitigation and adaptation in Latin America, the Caribbean, and sub-Saharan Africa.

01/11/23 | By Annette Vogel

Financial Advisors

Community Investment Note Q3 2022 Report

Our Q3 2022 quarterly report, featuring quarterly updates on our Community Investment Note portfolio and borrowers, as well as highlights from our work throughout the quarter.

11/15/22 | By Justin Conway

Impact Management

Our 2022 Impact Report, "Responding to the Need for Transformative Change"

Our 2022 Impact Report features the impact we and our portfolio partners have had on markets, the environment, and communities around the world throughout 2021 and 2022.

11/03/22 | By Caitlin Rosser

Climate

What does Community-Based Solar Look Like?

How does the clean power, financial savings, and job creation provided by solar energy benefit our under-served communities? Impact Analyst Annette Vogel visits our partner Sunwealth to find out.

10/25/22 | By Annette Vogel

Climate

Site Visit: Forest Resilience Bond

Investment Analyst Helen Zhang visits Yuba and Sierra Counties in California and meets with the team behind the project in the heart of the forest where our capital is hard at work.

09/30/22 | By Helen Zhang

Financial Advisors

Q2 2022 Report

Our Q2 2022 quarterly report, featuring quarterly updates on our portfolio and borrowers, as well as highlights from our work throughout the quarter.

08/12/22 | By Justin Conway

Financial Advisors

US SIF FORUM 2022: Engaging with industry partners on the evolving impact investing landscape

The USSIF conference featured impact investors like Calvert Impact Capital as well as asset managers, institutional asset owners, data providers, financial advisors, and other practitioners.

06/22/22 | By Anna Mabrey

Financial Advisors

Q1 2022 Report

Our Q1 2022 quarterly report, featuring quarterly updates on our portfolio and borrowers, as well as highlights from our work throughout the quarter.

05/13/22 | By Justin Conway

Impact Management

Success Story: DC Water

In September 2016, the District of Columbia’s water municipality – DC Water – issued the nation’s first Environmental Impact Bond (EIB).

04/22/22 | By Caitlin Rosser

Borrower Spotlight

Borrower Spotlight: PACE Equity funds greener commercial buildings in the US

Our borrower, PACE Equity, is the market leader in C-PACE financing, a program designed to encourage developers to make their buildings greener by providing a source of inexpensive private capital.

04/11/22 | By Lucas Pappas

Impact Management

2021 Impact Report Webinar

Calvert Impact Capital's Investor Relations and Impact Management staff hosted a webinar to review highlights from our 2021 Impact Report

03/03/22 | By Caitlin Rosser

Financial Advisors

Q4 2021 Report

Our Q4 2021 quarterly report, featuring quarterly updates on our portfolio and borrowers, as well as highlights from our work throughout the quarter.

02/15/22 | By Justin Conway

Get to Know our Staff

Capital Can Create Meaningful Change: Our summer internship experience

As their internships end, our summer interns discuss their work at Calvert Impact Capital and their impressions of the broader impact investing industry through the lens of their main projects.

11/30/21 | By Mary Hayford & Angelie Miranda

Impact Management

Our 2021 Impact Report, "Making Markets Work for People and Planet"

Our 2021 Impact Report features the impact we and our borrowers have had on the environment and communities around the world throughout 2020 and 2021.

11/18/21 | By Caitlin Rosser

Financial Advisors

Q3 2021 Report

Our Q3 2021 quarterly report, featuring quarterly updates on our portfolio and borrowers, as well as highlights from our work throughout the quarter.

11/12/21 | By Justin Conway

Climate

As US cities build green infrastructure, here’s one way they’re paying for it (Quartz)

In 2015, DC Water proposed using parks, plants, and permeable pavements strategically distributed to absorb some stormwater runoff and prevent overflow. This municipal bond funded the idea.

10/27/21

Borrower Spotlight

Borrower Spotlight: eco.business Fund and sustainable shrimp farming in Ecuador

Our borrower, the eco.business Fund, is leading the way in helping Ecuadorian shrimp producers implement practices that protect the environment

09/07/21 | By Christian Choconta

Climate

‘Green Infrastructure’ for Clean Water Shows Its Worth in Washington, D.C. (Next City)

Rain gardens and other green infrastructure in D.C. have helped keep the city's rivers clean.

09/02/21

Financial Advisors

Q2 2021 Report

Our Q2 2021 quarterly report, featuring quarterly updates on our portfolio and borrowers, as well as highlights from our work throughout the quarter.

08/13/21 | By Justin Conway

Climate

Funding through Environmental Impact Bonds: Video (Storm Water Solutions)

Katie Johns, Jenn Pryce, and Eric Letsinger discuss the environmental impact bond that DC Water used to fund green infrastructure and a green jobs program.

07/12/21

Climate

Forest Resilience Bond Webinar

EPA hosted two webinars on April 29, 2021 and May 6, 2021 to discuss the recently published technical report on the first Forest Resilience Bond

06/14/21

Borrower Spotlight

Borrower Spotlight: Azure Source Capital

Azure Source Capital (ASC) mobilizes capital and technical expertise to upgrade and expand water services for under-served urban and peri-urban communities of El Salvador.

05/04/21 | By Leigh Pomerantz

Impact Management

Success Story: MyStrongHome

In December 2016, Calvert Impact Capital made a loan to MyStrongHome, an innovative new social enterprise working to fortify coastal communities against climate change impacts.

04/06/21 | By Caitlin Rosser

Strategic Updates

2020 in Review

The global pandemic, resulting economic shocks, stark displays of systemic racism and injustice, and near-daily evidence of rapidly changing climate made it clear our current systems are failing us

12/18/20 | By Leigh Moran

Climate

How investors are coming up with the green to save the ocean blue (The Washington Post)

Environmental threats to oceans around the world are prompting new approaches and deals to raise money for rescue efforts.

10/28/20

Borrower Spotlight

Calvert Impact Capital expands relationship with eco.business Fund to increase financing for biodiversity conservation

Calvert Impact Capital is excited to announce a further commitment to the eco.business Fund

10/26/20

Impact Management

2020 Impact Report

Our 2020 Impact Report commemorates our 25th anniversary and features the impact we and our borrowers have had on the environment and communities around the world throughout 2019 and 2020.

10/01/20 | By Caitlin Rosser

Climate

Why do our investors invest for impact? Takeaways from our 2020 Impact Investor Survey

Every two years, we conduct an investor survey to better understand the motivations of our investor base, the challenges they face in investing for impact, and how we can serve them better

09/15/20 | By Caitlin Rosser

Financial Advisors

2020 Investor Survey Results

Every two years, we conduct an investor survey to better understand the motivations of our investor base, the challenges they face in investing for impact, and how we can serve them better

09/15/20 | By Caitlin Rosser

Borrower Spotlight

The Forest Resilience Bond: An Innovative Financial Tool Used to Fight Fires in California

In the face of climate change, catastrophic wildfires increasingly blaze across the country, threatening forests, communities, and livelihoods

09/02/20 | By Leigh Pomerantz

Racial Equity

Portfolio Partners' Statements on Racial Justice and Equity

Since the death of George Floyd at the hands of the Minneapolis police, many organizations and individuals across the globe have raised their voices

06/17/20 | By Leigh Pomerantz

Climate

Interview with Jennifer Pryce - GLF Luxembourg 2019

Interview with Jennifer Pryce - GLF Luxembourg 2019

02/06/20

Strategic Updates

2019 in Review

2019 was another exciting and productive year for Calvert Impact Capital

01/08/20 | By Leigh Moran