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The Difference Between ESG and SRI, and How They Impact Investing

3BL Media

Environmentalists may choose to invest in companies that produce durable products from natural materials. Terms like sustainable investing, impact investing, and ethical investing were used to describe this activity. AnteaGroup breaks it down and shares how they impact investing: [link].

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How place-based strategies in Virginia and other states are leveraging private capital for public good

Impact Alpha

26 – Virginia Community Capital has turned a $15 million seed investment from the state in 2006 into more than $600 million in loan originations to finance thousands of affordable housing units, healthcare facilities, small farms, business and jobs. ImpactAlpha, Oct.

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A Brief History of Impact Investing

Good.is: Planet

Collaborative Fund was founded a decade ago with the mission to support and invest in the shared future. Since then, the conversation around impact investing has only grown. Impact investing has evolved to mean different things to different people. Impact Investing | An Interactive History.

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Does Every Little Bit of ESG Integration Help?

Stanford Social Innovation

Since it was launched in 2006, thousands of corporations and organizations have signed the “Principles for Responsible Investment” (PRI), committing to “incorporate ESG issues into investment analysis and decision-making processes,” more commonly known as ESG integration. Four Conditions for Impact.

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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. These losses have only accelerated.

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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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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