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Impact Investing Should Be Hard

Stanford Social Innovation

Many have recognized this issue of difficulty as a central challenge for impact investing. In a seminal 2009 white paper, the Monitor Institute noted that “the long and difficult work of ensuring investment impact” could stand at odds with “existing financial markets and incentives.”

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Tackling Eco-Anxiety Through Experiential Education

Stanford Social Innovation

By Zoey England Today’s college students are coming of age in a warming world, growing up as climate change has accelerated into an intensifying crisis that leaves no community untouched. Research shows many young people are experiencing adverse psychological and emotional impacts as a result.

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Fired up: Meet 30 youth leaders sparking change

Corporate Knights

The 28-year-old climate-action instructor and sustainable-operations manager was hoping for a blissful escape before the new academic year. Instead, I found myself in the thick of climate change’s brutal reality,” she says. The producers shared with me how climate change affected their crops and lives.

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Are Women Donors the Key to Unlocking More Giving?

Stanford Social Innovation

We also scanned the academic research on women donors, attended relevant conferences such as Women Moving Millions , and interviewed a number of leaders in the women donors space. The future of philanthropy is femaleand women are a critical leverage point to unlocking more, more impactful, and more equitable giving over the next decade.

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Top 10 Business Sustainability Issues of 2023

B the Change

This free downloadable resource helps businesses engage in reflection, learning, and action around climate justice. The toolkit includes a Climate Justice Reflection Challenge, glossary, and calls to action. Climate Change 4. How to empower marginalized voices in climate decisions. How to reduce carbon emissions.

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Status Quo a Barrier to Africa’s Future as Green Superpower

Chris Hall

Climate finance channelled into Africa cannot be upscaled in line with a 1.5°C The Loss and Damage Fund was unveiled at COP27 and aims to compensate countries most vulnerable to climate change. Recommendations for funding arrangements will be made at COP28 in December.

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A Realist’s Guide to Investing for Good

Stanford Social Innovation

In fact, almost 85 percent of individual investors say they are interested in sustainable investing and more than three quarters believe they can use their investments to influence the extent of climate change. But if you are not willing to concede any returns from your “impactinvestments, your options are limited.