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Financing Women- Owned or -Led SMEs for Sustainable Growth: Navigating Capital Supply Side Challenges in Africa

James Militzer

Since 2010, we’ve raised more than $420 million for WSMEs and other inclusive businesses in Africa, and we’ve seen how investors can miss good investment opportunities in high potential WSMEs by not being gender sensitive.

Banking 119
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How Fintech is Enabling Progress Toward the SDGs — And Why it’s Time for Investors to Double Down

James Militzer

Then, as the pandemic subsided, these policies combined with pandemic-related disruptions in supply chains and labour markets, the war in Ukraine, and other factors to lead to an increase in inflation — causing central banks around the world to raise interest rates to dampen demand.

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US Climate Reporting Framework “Strikes a Good Balance”

Chris Hall

Last year, the SEC prepared the ground for increased reporting on climate risks, with its Division of Corporation Finance sending letters to public companies failing to satisfactorily disclose in line with its 2010 Climate Change Guidance. . Wide, aligned scope .

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The Adapted Metropolis

Chris Hall

The report also found that climate resilient developments in urban areas support the adaptive capacity in more rural places, maintaining peri-urban supply chains of goods and services and financial flows. Sanitation is also an important area that needs more investment, she adds.

UNEP 52
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Climate Emergency Risks Stranding Women

Chris Hall

Without action to bolster gender diversity, climate change could delay gender equality by 20 years, with progress in 2030 retreating back to 2010 levels, according to a 2021 report by consultancy firm Boston Consulting Group (BCG). Women also risk losing out in the climate transition, the report added.

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Lessons in Resilience: What an Impact Investor Learned from an Entrepreneur Who Refused to Give Up

James Militzer

The Characteristics of a Resilient Entrepreneur Founded in 2010, Tamul manufactures environmentally-friendly, biodegradable tableware made from the thick sheaths of the leaves of local areca nut trees. But Tamul’s business fundamentals were solid.