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Meet the women warrior accountants pushing the envelope on climate action

Corporate Knights

Alyson Slater, head of sustainable investments, Manulife “They didn’t want it done in a fluffy way,” Todd says of her Vancity employers. Likewise, the European Central Bank recently reported that “banks do not yet sufficiently incorporate climate risk into their stress-testing frameworks and internal models.”

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Private Equity Firms Are Paving the Way to a More Sustainable Future 

Richard Matthews

According to Prequin , the size of PE assets under management has multiplied 6 times since 2004, tripled in the last decade and Prequin predicts that PEs will grow by 30 percent between 2019 and 2025 when PEs are expected to reach $8.3 A large and growing share of that investment capitol is going towards impact investments.

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Health leaders discuss Mechanisms and Coordination of Global Health Governance and Finance

Sustainable Development Network

Countries in the Asia-Pacific region that dealt with SARS in 2003-2004 were best prepared to respond to COVID-19, as their specific readiness plans resulted in lower burdens of disease and death even before vaccines were introduced in 2021. Dr. Uribe concluded by outlining the Bank’s main concerns.

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How cracks emerged in Africa's plan to plant a wall of trees across the continent

Corporate Knights

By 2004, Smithsonian magazine reported that Niger’s Zinder region had 50 times more trees than it did in 1975. In Ethiopia, a report from the World Bank–affiliated Independent Evaluation Group found that Ethiopia’s Green Legacy Initiative, its offshoot of the Wall, had regenerated 45 watersheds.

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Five trends that shaped sustainable finance in 2022

Corporate Knights

This surrender was part of a wider pullback, as banks, investment funds and asset owners axed billions of dollars from sustainable investment funds and reined in marketing excesses. North American banks dug in on fossil fuels and pressured GFANZ to capitulate. What caused this turnaround? Canadian and U.S.

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