ESG Today

JUNE 24, 2022

Global investment manager AllianceBernstein (AB) announced today a new strategic partnership with venture capital and private equity firm Impact Engine, aimed at enhancing the impact offerings for Bernstein Private Wealth Management, AB’s private wealth business.

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3BL Media

APRIL 29, 2024

50M+ donated to fight childhood cancer and support children and families since 2012 $60M+ invested in Milwaukee-area students over 25+ years 4,600+ students mentored by Northwestern Mutual employees in 2023 $3.5M

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James Militzer

JANUARY 21, 2022

So to commemorate a full decade of thought-provoking analysis and opinion from entrepreneurs, investors, researchers and others across the emerging markets business and social enterprise sectors, we’ve put together a new series that highlights all of NextBillion’s Most Influential Articles from 2012 to today.

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James Militzer

JANUARY 8, 2024

A yearly tradition since 2012, the contest highlights 12 of our most-read articles from the past year, giving readers an opportunity to vote for the ones that influenced their thinking the most. As 2024 gets underway, we’d like to announce the results of NextBillion’s annual “ Most Influential Article of the Year ” contest.

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James Militzer

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

In response to this need, in 2012 Value for Women was launched as a social enterprise uniting deep gender expertise with equally deep business and finance experience. Rather than seeing women as the problem, more and more solutions recognize that institutions, systems and processes are flawed in the way they invest in and engage women.

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James Militzer

DECEMBER 21, 2022

NextBillion has been running our “ Most Influential Article of the Year ” contest since 2012, selecting the 12 most-read articles we’ve published each year and inviting readers to vote for their favorites. From Impact Investing to ‘Impact-First’ Investing: 
Seven Ways Investors Can Take a Holistic Lifecycle Approach to Impact.

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Corporate Knights

DECEMBER 1, 2023

The data was contained in the Global Sustainable Investment Review 2022, a report on global sustainable investment assets issued biennially since 2012. The last report in 2020, compiled under the looser definitions, estimated assets of the sustainable investment industry to be US$35.3 trillion.

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Chris Hall

JULY 8, 2022

After a decade of working to grow the UK’s social impact investing market, Big Society Capital (BSC) is calling for more institutional investors to invest more in themes such as the provision of social housing and supporting businesses and communities in deprived areas. . Grappling with social impact data .

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James Militzer

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Each December since 2012, we’ve selected 12 of our most-read articles from the past year, inviting readers to vote for the ones that influenced their thinking the most. As we bid farewell to an eventful year, it’s time for NextBillions annual tradition: our Most Influential Articles of the Year contest.

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Development Impact Investing Climate Change 52

Chris Hall

APRIL 11, 2024

“We think that’s a sensible idea, but we feel we there is also a real opportunity to create a fund in parallel that could be linked to it that focuses on the smaller, more local investment needed by communities across the country.” the social impact investment market is currently worth approximately £8 billion.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 11, 2024

“We think that’s a sensible idea, but we feel we there is also a real opportunity to create a fund in parallel that could be linked to it that focuses on the smaller, more local investment needed by communities across the country.” the social impact investment market is currently worth approximately £8 billion.

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Impact Investing Sustainable Investment Development 52

Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

First founded in 2012 as a crowdfunding platform aiming to finance decentralised solar energy projects in Africa, the firm rapidly became a success story, progressively turning into a sizeable private debt management company financing renewable energy projects across emerging markets.

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Edouard Stenger

MAY 24, 2017

Part of this revolution is the meteoritic growth of green bonds, which were started in 2007 by the World Bank and the European Investment Bank. If growth was slow from the first green bond issuance to 2012, things have accelerated since. Green bonds are indeed often oversubscribed due to their success.

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Stanford Social Innovation

APRIL 5, 2022

Fortunately, over the last decade, changes in regulation and the growth of the impact investing movement have begun to open the door to creative financing for small businesses and nonprofit organizations alike.

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James Militzer

MARCH 21, 2022

Since 2012, SunCulture’s solar-powered irrigation equipment has enabled life-changing improvements for smallholder farmers by saving them time while increasing their yield and income. How COVID-19 Has Intensified Risk for SunCulture.

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Jon Hale

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Sustainable Funds Universe, 2012–21 Source: Morningstar Direct. Sustainable Funds Flows and Assets, 2012–21 Source: Morningstar Direct. Data as of Dec. Note: Includes funds that have been liquidated during this period. Net flows flew past the record set in 2020 and are 14 times what they were three years ago. times since 2018.

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3BL Media

MAY 15, 2024

Since 2012, Northwestern Mutual has been committed to accelerating the search for better treatments and cures for childhood cancer, while supporting families undergoing treatment and survivors living with long-term effects. It’s the number one cause of death by disease for children under the age of 15 in the U.S.,

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 19, 2024

David Grimaud, CEO, Bamboo Capital Partners, makes the case for stronger commitments to impact investing to deliver on the UN SDGs. Technology is becoming the backbone of numerous impact business models in finance, healthcare, education, agribusiness, and clean energy – allowing for more scalability.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 19, 2022

As an investment firm dedicated to investing in solutions that people and planet need, we helped grow the microfinance and community development financial industries, both of which are important sources of capital for female entrepreneurs. Ten years ago, we began experimenting with a more formal approach to investing in women.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 22, 2020

In 2012, Superstorm Sandy thrust a wall of brown water into her Staten Island bedroom. Executive Director, Kinetic Communities Consulting; Brooklyn, New York. LinkedIn | Twitter. Daphany Rose Sanchez already has experienced climate change as a matter of life or death. The first home her family had ever purchased was a total loss.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

These initiatives complement those of the Cisco Foundation , the companys philanthropic wing, which in 2021 pledged $100 million in climate-related grants to nonprofits and impact investments, particularly in developing regions like Africa and the Amazon. Thats where CorPower Ocean comes in.

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Microsoft introduced a carbon fee in 2012, charged to business groups within the company based on their emissions footprint and extended to cover all Scope 3 emissions in 2020 to help fund the companys carbon neutrality commitment. Nakagawas post also indicated a key shift in Microsofts climate strategy.

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James Militzer

DECEMBER 22, 2023

We’ve been running the contest since 2012, selecting 12 of our most-read articles from the past year and inviting readers to vote for the ones that influenced their thinking the most. As 2023 draws to a close, it’s time for NextBillion’s annual tradition: our “ Most Influential Article of the Year ” contest.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 27, 2022

In the whole of 2012, about 130 000 electric cars were sold worldwide. Concerned about their pace of transition to 100% EV production, Inyova Impact Investing has this year proposed a board member with EV expertise to BMW.”. Moreover, all of the net growth of global car sales in 2021 came from the sale of EVs. “In

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James Militzer

MAY 3, 2022

Doing its part, the Securities and Exchange Board of India developed its Business Responsibility Reporting framework in 2012, which made it mandatory for the top 100 companies listed on the National Stock Exchange to disclose their performance on ESG parameters (this requirement was extended to the top 1,000 companies in FY 2019-20).

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ESG Today

APRIL 17, 2023

Two more recent examples: In 2022, the city of Baltimore announced its goal to be carbon neutral by 2045, building on its 2012 Climate Action Plan, and the Des Moines City Council in 2021 passed a resolution calling for the city to “achieve 100 percent, 24/7 carbon-free electricity by 2035 and net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.”

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