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A truly clean energy system runs on a clean conscience

GreenBiz

One is looking at Mexico, and the tension between climate change mitigation and justice for communities. Green banks are interesting. Even in the social impact space, investors need income within the double or triple bottom line. Energy & Climate. I've gone in different directions. Renewable Energy.

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Women lead the world’s most sustainable cities

Corporate Knights

In the fight against climate change, cities are proving to be much better combatants than the snoozing generals that are, all too often, national governments. Smaller and nimbler, cities are becoming showpieces of successful climate action, and the protagonists of this spectacle of municipal leadership are increasingly women.

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These 50 Canadian corporate citizens are a cut above

Corporate Knights

Just as more than 95% of climate scientists accept the truth of climate change, most corporate leaders recognize that their role in society has changed. It’s evidence that the “triple bottom line” (profit, people and planet) doesn’t compromise the single bottom line – but expands it.

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Meet the women warrior accountants pushing the envelope on climate action

Corporate Knights

Chauvin framed the most urgent issues facing the planet – climate change, waste, pollution, slave and child labour – as accounting failures. In the 1990s, progressive economists were pushing for what they called full-cost accounting: a triple bottom line that took profits, people and the planet into consideration.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. Mason, who was raised in Queens, is one of the few senior Black executives in banking, at Citi since 2001 in a slate of leadership roles including CEO of Citi Private Bank.

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Want To Boost the Global Economy by $10 Trillion?

3BL Media

Because Fariha didn’t qualify for a bank loan, she sought the capital for her Punjab pottery and handicrafts business from her husband, but when COVID-19 put an end to face-to-face sales, she felt like she had nowhere else to turn. “At every step we need men to assist us, whether that’s our husbands or our brothers.” “At

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The 2020 GreenBiz 30 Under 30

GreenBiz

She became intrigued by her clients’ requests for investments with a triple bottom line — and the very notion that profitability and impact needn’t be mutually exclusive. . Senior Sustainability Consultant — Climate Strategy Lead, Quantis International; San Diego. Meg Wilcox. Charlotte Bande, 29. Jesse Klein.

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