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Leveraging Disruption to Save the Planet

3BL Media

Alums of our Multicultural Innovation Lab, an in-house accelerator for diverse-led tech startups, are finding innovative ways to curb carbon and promote sustainability. DESCRIPTION: By now, the alarms over climate change seem to be sounding nearly every week. SOURCE: Morgan Stanley.

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Meet the women warrior accountants pushing the envelope on climate action

Corporate Knights

When she walked out that day in 2009, she wasn’t sure she still wanted to be an accountant. Chauvin framed the most urgent issues facing the planet – climate change, waste, pollution, slave and child labour – as accounting failures. The professor – one Louis Chauvin – was a standout in McGill’s Desautels Faculty of Management.

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Three Prominent Pension Fund Leaders Join Ceres Board of Directors

3BL Media

First elected to the City Council in 2009, Comptroller Lander co-founded the Council’s Progressive Caucus and has a strong track record of partnering with community advocates to win transformative change for a more just and equitable city. Prior to joining CalPERS, Ms. Frost spent 30 years as a public servant in Washington state.

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Take Five: Ready to Engage

Chris Hall

Europe’s new code – As Ursula von der Leyen mulled over the composition of her top team for the next five years , the European Commission’s incoming finance chief was already getting advice on the future of sustainable investment. Finance is an issue. Three agencies are organising a series of six events – dubbed the NDCs 3.0

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Take Five: Black and Blue Friday

Chris Hall

The case continues long-running Republican attacks on US asset managers and the investor-led climate-focused coalitions to which they largely no longer belong. As noted in the Financial Times , coal prices spiked in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, falling back “sharply” since.

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Staying the Course

Chris Hall

“Overall, we need to be creating an enabling environment from the public-policy perspective that allows sustainable capital to scale up,” he explained. Delayed action on climate change is creating material risks for investors and the economy.

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A Blueprint for Closing the SDG Financing Gap: How to Raise $290 Billion in 12 Months to Tackle the World’s Biggest Problems

James Militzer

In 2009, developed countries committed to mobilizing US $100 billion per year for climate action in developing countries by 2020. They failed.