Impact Alpha

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

ImpactAlpha, September 13 – Laura Callanan was President Obama’s senior deputy chair for the National Endowment for the Arts, but it was only after she launched Upstart Co-Lab in 2015 that she discovered the sisterhood of artists among leaders in impact investing and community finance.

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3BL Media

MAY 23, 2022

The UK’s disclosures requirements have been based on the recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), founded in 2015 by the Financial Stability Board (FSB) to improve and increase climate-related financial information reporting.

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Impact Alpha

MARCH 6, 2020

ImpactAlpha, March 6 – Social Impact Ventures’ €40 million fund was the biggest private impact fund in the Netherlands when it launched in 2015. The post Agent of Impact: Willemijn Verloop, Social Impact Ventures appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Impact Alpha

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

TGIF, Agents of Impact! Featured: ImpactAlpha Original Impact investing on the ballot. When Deval Patrick left public office in 2015, he raised eyebrows by joining Bain Capital, the private-equity firm co-founded by another former Massachusetts governor, Mitt Romney.

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ESG Today

JANUARY 17, 2024

Global impact investor BlueEarth Capital AG announced today that it has reached $378 million in investor commitments for its private equity climate impact strategy, BlueEarth Climate Strategy, Commitments include $308 million from the BlueEarth Climate Growth Fund, and $70 million from LPs in a tailored mandate and co-investments.

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3BL Media

MARCH 21, 2022

Investing in equality for women can potentially increase a company’s—and your portfolio’s—bottom line. DESCRIPTION: By Lily Trager, Wealth Management, Director of Impact Investing. While COVID-19 has impacted all of us, it has disproportionately affected women, especially women of color. Our expert explains. 14 US Pat.

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ESG Today

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Investment areas will include mobility, power, sustainable food and agriculture, and circular economy themes. 1GT will be headed by Raju, leading a team that has deployed nearly $600 million of capital since 2015 in companies seeking to mitigate climate change, according to MSIM.

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 5, 2024

In her new role, Komulainen is charged with leading Quinbrook’s global sustainability and impact strategy, and will sit on the company’s investment committee. Established in 2015, the specialist investment manager is focused on energy transition infrastructure investments in Australia, the UK, and US.

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ESG Today

AUGUST 17, 2023

Founded in 2015, Montreal-based dcbel provides solutions enabling homeowners to leverage renewable energy assets such as solar panels, batteries and electric vehicles to avoid blackouts, and save money during energy price peaks. Pierre Larochelle, Co-Managing Partner of Idealist Capital, will join dcbel’s Board of Directors.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 5, 2022

In mid-September, ESG Investor and Artemis Investment Management gathered asset owners and other experts to consider the current and future state of impact investments. Appetite for impact was strong, guided by emerging frameworks, but the forces of inertia were present too, both internal and external. Setting objectives.

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ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Founded in 2015, California-based Twelve produces chemicals, materials, and fuels from carbon, instead of fossil fuels through a carbon transformation technology that converts captured CO2 into products with water and renewable energy as inputs and producing only water and oxygen outputs.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 26, 2022

As SDG-aligned impact investing grows, methods for measuring real-world outcomes are proliferating. . In more positive news, there has been an increasing shift in mindset as investors adopt SDG-aligned impact investing strategies, which means more private capital is being allocated towards these 17 global targets.

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ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

TotalEnergies has set climate goals including achieving carbon neutrality across Scope 1 and 2 by 2050, with an intermediate target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 40% by 2030, on a 2015 basis.

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ESG Today

MARCH 13, 2023

Founded by the GRI in 2015, the GSSB is an independent operating entity with sole responsibility for the development of GRI sustainability standards, which were launched in 2016. Adams said: “With a growing recognition of the importance of sustainability reporting, GRI has a huge part to play.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Australia’s climate financing between 2015 and 2020 totalled A$1.4 Fergus Pitt, a spokesperson for the Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC), said the adaptation plan -and its companion Net Zero Australia plan , which is currently under development – must both be implemented with same the “impact and prominence”. trillion.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 13, 2023

Oversight lacking The CARET project is a response to a problem that has its roots in the early 2000s, when small and medium-sized money management firms started to issue funds and other products with little regulatory oversight using basic ESG screening, engagement, thematic and impact investing strategies. A 2015 report from the U.S.

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Corporate Knights

DECEMBER 1, 2023

A problem for years The issue of ESG integration has plagued the sustainable investment sector for years. A 2015 report from the U.S. “We wanted to make sure that they weren't just using the [sustainability] name straight out of the box and that didn't actually equate to the underlying theme or strategies,” said Lettini.

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Richard Matthews

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

In recent years, impact investing has become mainstream and private equity (PE) firms are playing a key role. Despite being dismissed by some as “woke capitalism”, impact investing is a trend that is here to stay. PE firms have helped to grow the popularity of impact investing.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of new hires in the sustainable investing sector, including BT Pension Scheme, Global Impact Investing Network, Fulcrum Asset Management, S&P Global Sustainable1 and JLL.

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James Militzer

APRIL 22, 2024

The global community has made commendable progress toward the Sustainable Development Goal of universal energy access since the SDGs were established in 2015, when 1.3 These challenges are emblematic of the 760 million people without electricity and the 2.3 billion people lacked access to electricity.

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B the Change

JULY 7, 2022

Policymakers are working toward the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), 17 global goals set by the United Nations in 2015, to be achieved by 2030. To achieve the SDGs, we need trillions of dollars to finance different projects; where those projects have a financial return on investment, that money could come from sustainable finance.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 7, 2022

She has also served as a member of the Swedish Bankers Association’s Sustainability Council, as well as the Swedish National Advisory Board for Impacting Investing. Brown’s newly created role will involve role spearheading the Pensions for Purpose impact investment training programme.

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Stanford Social Innovation

MAY 12, 2022

based impact investing firm SDS Capital Group closed its $150 million Supportive Housing Fund, which will build 1,800 units statewide, with 1,200 in Los Angeles. Further, such a federal investment could be augmented by local funds and energy. It started in 2015 as a mix of $4 million in philanthropic capital from the Conrad N.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The Schulich School of Business grad has been actively involved in the cleantech capital ecosystem since 2015, beginning as a founding member of the cleantech team at Export Development Canada and now as manager of cleantech venture services at MaRS. There are more jobs in sustainability and impact than there ever have been,” says Perry.

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James Militzer

MAY 26, 2022

To answer this question, we can look at the recent past – starting around 2015, when global attention to the Syrian refugee crisis drove a significant increase in private sector involvement. Rather than stand on the sidelines when the Syrian refugee crisis intensified around 2015, enterprises responded by contributing funds to relief efforts.

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James Militzer

AUGUST 8, 2022

This article shares what we learned this year from this unique dataset, highlighting current impact measurement practices in the financial inclusion sector, gaps in these practices, and what the impact investing community can do to better design its measurement practices, products and services. . Evidence from Banerjee et al.,

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

In the weeds One of the most comprehensive studies of ESG fund performance was conducted by Rockefeller Asset Management and NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business. Researchers analysed evidence from over 1,000 studies published between 2015-20 (most were written before 2015).

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Further, the fund extends beyond climate, investing in financial inclusion and agriculture, she added. Funding gap In 2015, the UN defined the SDGs as a “blueprint for peace and prosperity”, setting a 2030 deadline to achieve the 17 goals. The funding gap required to achieve these goals, however, amounts to US$3.9

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Steven Mintz

MARCH 8, 2022

A 2015 Nielsen  report  found that 73% of the Millennial generation was willing to pay more for sustainable goods. In addition to divesting from unethical stocks, you can make investments in companies that make a positive change in a practice called  impact investing. Environment,

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James Militzer

JULY 18, 2022

Information and insights from Energy Access India, a USAID-funded project that Miller Center ran between 2015 and 2018. This program aimed to address the most significant barriers to investment for social entrepreneurs in the Asia-Pacific region aiming to develop reliable, affordable, low-carbon solutions that scale.

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James Militzer

JUNE 20, 2022

Though the WASH sector has been largely publicly funded to date, non-traditional capital providers such as impact investors, corporate funders, family offices and foundations are increasingly streaming into this important impact space. But for this influx of capital to have maximum impact, funders will have to adapt their approach.

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James Militzer

MARCH 21, 2022

This type of financing structure can expand investable opportunities in emerging markets, leading to more development impact. As of September 2021, aggregate blended finance flows totaled over US $160 billion, with annual flows averaging around US $9 billion since 2015.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Are there credible investment opportunities? Last year, Morgan Stanley published a report in which it identified sustainable aquaculture as one of four big opportunities for ocean impact investment – alongside decarbonising the maritime industry, marine solutions to protect ecosystems, and marine renewable energy.

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James Militzer

JULY 20, 2022

A 2013-2015 randomized evaluation of the model conducted by Innovations for Poverty Action in rural Uganda found that it reduced poverty, improved subjective well-being and had an impressive cost-benefit ratio, particularly compared to other poverty-graduation programs evaluated at scale.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 2, 2022

a Leaps by Bayer portfolio company since 2015, underscores the value of nurturing and supporting breakthrough innovations that can create positive benefits for humanity. CCI has been a portfolio company of Leaps by Bayer, the impact investment arm of Bayer for the past seven years.

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James Militzer

MAY 31, 2024

According to the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, the number of climate-responsive projects funded by private sources of capital in emerging markets has been decreasing by around 10% each year since 2015. These privately funded projects need to increase by 30% annually to meet the Paris Agreement’s 2030 targets.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

The platform is part of MSIM’s US$200 billion alternative investments business, and will focus on private companies based primarily in North America and Europe with products or services helping to reduce their respective clients’ carbon footprint.

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