Environmental Finance

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Mirova has launched a research centre it says will catalyse blended finance and impact investments by combining the knowledge of its investment teams with academic research in under-examined areas, including through the creation of a blended finance database.

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James Militzer

OCTOBER 21, 2024

The academic community’s growing focus on supporting entrepreneurial innovation is promising — as is the emergence of climate tech as a key priority of these efforts. Whether they’re students or academics, these would-be entrepreneurs are funneled into a rigid pipeline: Conceive an idea, pitch it to VCs, secure funding and scale up.

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Impact Alpha

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

One year ago, the unthinkable happened: history, whose end had been (perhaps academically) proclaimed after the fall of the Soviet Union, came roaring. The post War on Ukraine One Year Later: Response, Reconstruction, and Recovery appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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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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Stanford Social Innovation

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

We identified over 130 individuals pushing the boundaries of social impact, including program evaluators, econometricians, academic researchers, machine learning/AI specialists, statisticians, implementation science experts, meta-analysts, and more. Next Steps for Impact Science. Who are the key players?

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

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Stanford Social Innovation

DECEMBER 12, 2023

One expression of this is what we call the “single-asset paradigm” of impact investing: the idea that a single technology, project, or enterprise can bring about structural change in society. In this way, systemic investing invites us to reimagine and evolve how impact investment—and finance more broadly—could work.

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James Militzer

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

But though there’s growing momentum behind gender lens strategies in the impact investing space, investors often focus on the first two of these entry points, largely ignoring gender while providing TA and other types of post-investment support.

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B the Change

APRIL 16, 2023

There’s a need for examples of organizations with “successful social justice strategies and processes,” wrote a North American academic. Can they leverage “global initiatives in responsible investing to inform companies about opportunities to access capital?” Is your business looking for ideas on making a positive environmental impact?

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 31, 2023

Climate finance channelled into Africa cannot be upscaled in line with a 1.5°C

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Stanford Social Innovation

OCTOBER 5, 2023

But if you are not willing to concede any returns from your “impact” investments, your options are limited. Nonetheless, a cottage industry of academics has toiled away (sometimes in partnership with asset management firms) developing and testing theories such as creating shared value, circularity, and ESG investing.

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Green Bonds Decarbonize Negative Screening Banking 125

James Militzer

JUNE 26, 2023

This ensures that our cohorts of social ventures have access to cutting-edge research, data, and a pool of experts and dynamic thinkers at one of the world’s leading academic institutions. To help foster these connections, we are leveraging the powerhouse of resources and networks at the London School of Economics.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 2, 2022

Since our founding in 2013 we have actively sought – and benefited from – scientific, operational, and financial support from our academic and strategic partners. 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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Chris Hall

JUNE 6, 2024

Bruyninckx said he and his fellow advisory committee members had been “convinced by the fact that this fund is shifting the needle on the compass when it comes to placing cutting-edge investments where they are needed”.

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Stanford Social Innovation

JANUARY 12, 2022

After all, the business (and academic business) community has already developed a deep library on corporate social responsibility , shared value , impact investing , inclusive growth etc., And can the term “anchor institution” convey something about a business that other labels do not?

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B the Change

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

At the same time, we deeply engage with members of the broader ecosystem — from investors and policymakers to academics and corporate professionals — to support them in advancing equity and inclusion. Please share one of your favorite moments from your experience with this project.

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Development Academics Impact Investing Digitalization 52

Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

In theory, investing in a sustainable tomorrow would drive demonstrably strong and consistent financial returns, while investing in anything opposed to that future would underperform in comparison. ESG integration alone is not sufficient for inclusion.

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Sustainable Investment Greenwashing Net Zero Academics 130

Stanford Social Innovation

DECEMBER 20, 2022

And can we really still call it “impact”? While the PRI and the industry have adopted the principle of ESG integration as a doctrine, academics have treated it as a hypothesis, looking for data to test it and determine if it holds true, particularly the link between ESG integration and financial performance.

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Chris Hall

JULY 14, 2023

Over the first six months of 2023, environmental groups including Tipping Point North South and The Conflict and Environment Observatory , alongside academics from UK-based universities have been campaigning to close the so-called ‘ military emissions gap ’, calling for comprehensive and transparent reporting.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The 28-year-old climate-action instructor and sustainable-operations manager was hoping for a blissful escape before the new academic year. Kristen Perry 26, Toronto managing director, Spring Investing Collective Kristen Perry is blazing a trail for under-represented Canadians to participate in impact investing. “I

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3BL Media

AUGUST 9, 2022

Their team is comprised of elite tech industry product managers, software engineers, and data scientists, along with remote-sensing experts, foresters, ecologists, and academics all united by one purpose – to mitigate the devastating impacts of climate change on our planet and our people.

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Cisco CSR

JULY 27, 2022

Their team is comprised of elite tech industry product managers, software engineers, and data scientists, along with remote-sensing experts, foresters, ecologists, and academics all united by one purpose – to mitigate the devastating impacts of climate change on our planet and our people.

Climate Change 98

Climate Change Greenhouse Gas Protocol Corporate Social Responsibility Climate Scientist 98

Chris Hall

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Segal says: “In Canada, there is only attention on how climate change impacts an institution, company or the economy and not enough emphasis on how the decisions they make impact the environment. But she continues: “All investments are impact investments.

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Stanford Social Innovation

MARCH 10, 2022

Power for All: Harnessing Power for Positive Impact. Harvard Professor and co-author of the book Power for All Julie Battilana and SSIR Academic Editor Johanna Mair will discuss the fundamentals of power, debunk the common myths surrounding it, and discuss how to harness power for positive impact in our lives and in the world.

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Digitalization Academics Development Impact Investing 122

Chris Hall

MARCH 10, 2025

Systemic investing will allow investors to drive positive real-world impacts in line with chosen objectives, according to University of Zurich. New academic research has argued that investors should adopt a more holistic and collaborative approach to fully address the interconnected nature of systemic risks.

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