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Cashing In on Sustainability: A Blended Finance Program Aims to Fight Climate Change by Catalyzing SME Investment in the Peruvian Amazon

James Militzer

According to Peru’s Ministry of Environment’s National Forest Conservation Program for Climate Change Mitigation, Peru (and the world) have lost an average of roughly 100,000 hectares of forest per year since 2006. In fact, they are banking on it. These losses have only accelerated.

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Asia Wakes Up to Blue Finance Regulation

Chris Hall

Financing gaps The climate case for investing more in protecting ocean and coastal ecosystems is inarguable; ocean-based climate solutions could reduce the global greenhouse gas emissions gap by up to 35% on a 1.5°C

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PRI Faces up to Changing World

Chris Hall

In early 2005, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan invited a 20-strong group of global institutional investors to contribute to the development of the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI).

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Asset Managers Take ‘the B Road’ to ESG Credibility

Chris Hall

Non-profit B Lab, founded in 2006, bestows certification on companies which meet its high standards of social and environmental performance, accountability and transparency.? . Mutual benefits . B Corps are required to act in “ways that benefit society as a whole”, pursuing “social and environmental good”, and not “just profits”.