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Lessons from a Decade of Investing in a Frontier Market: What Impact Investors Can Learn from Nepal’s First International Private Equity Fund

James Militzer

The Challenges of Bringing Private Equity Investing to a Frontier Market I launched Dolma Impact Fund I in 2011, along with its fund manager Dolma Fund Management, achieving its first close in 2014. address these interrelated challenges, we have invested in clean energy generation through solar and run-of-river hydropower.

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Strengthening the ‘Environment’ Component of ESG: How Financial Institutions Can Bring Green Financing into the Mainstream in India

James Militzer

ESG’s momentum is due to accelerating climate change, deteriorating natural resources, decreasing labor rights, increasing corruption and other negative externalities that unsustainable and unethical business practices have caused. The chart below illustrates these findings: Source: Fair Finance India.

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Announcing Kiva’s Bold New Impact Strategy: The Nonprofit Microfinance Pioneer Shares its Refined Approach — And Unveils the Process Behind its Development

James Militzer

in 2011, we have learned a great deal about the inequitable access to capital that U.S. Communities impacted by climate change : Climate change disproportionately impacts unbanked and financially underserved populations globally, and as the impacts of climate change continue to compound, so do the dire consequences for these groups.

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On the Cusp of a New Era

Chris Hall

Latin America’s next phase of impact investing must embrace the region’s specific challenges and opportunities, says Ahmad El Jurdi, Principal at Lightrock. In recent years, Latin America has been at the core of a paradox within the global investment landscape.

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How Cisco supports entrepreneurship today and every day

Cisco CSR

Through our social investments, Cisco aims to support both micro- and small-business entrepreneurs as well as startup entrepreneurs who create jobs and contribute to community development and economic growth. Climate entrepreneurs need access to fast and founder-friendly capital,” says Enduring Planet co-founder Dimitry Gershenson.

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Investors to Hold US Banks and Insurers to Account on Climate

Chris Hall

“These investors have filed their shareholder resolutions with the finance sector in response to the growing climate crisis and the failure to limit global warming to 1.5°C The post Investors to Hold US Banks and Insurers to Account on Climate appeared first on ESG Investor.

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Can the World Bank Show the Way Forward for Impact?

Chris Hall

Figure 1: Climate finance – a snapshot of incrementalism The scale of investment in climate mitigation and adaptation is far short of what is needed to meet the Paris Agreement’s preferred target of limiting global warming this century to 1.5ºC above pre-industrial levels.

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