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A truly clean energy system runs on a clean conscience

GreenBiz

Green banks are interesting. Even in the social impact space, investors need income within the double or triple bottom line. Baker: I see state-funded green banks creating an opportunity to do wealth redistribution. Even in the social impact space, investors need income within the double or triple bottom line.

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Forget about Mobile Money, Invest in Insurtech Instead: The Untapped Triple Bottom Line Opportunity in Nigeria

James Militzer

Africa has already seen this sort of disruption and rapid scale in the broader fintech sector over the past decade, specifically with mobile money and digital banking. Insurance may not seem as sexy as mobile wallets, since its benefits are harder to understand, and it lacks mobile money’s built-in association with technology and innovation.

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Meet the women warrior accountants pushing the envelope on climate action

Corporate Knights

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. She found herself burrowing back into her textbooks, returning to first principles as she tried to come up with a meaningful way to measure social impact.

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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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Top 20 Chief Sustainability Officers of Europe Announced by Futur/io

3BL Media

Known as the creator of the "Triple Bottom Line" conceptPeople, Planet, and ProfitJohns visionary approach has become a fundamental part of business strategy worldwide. He served as an advisor and investor in a wide range of start-ups and NGOs across Europe and Africa.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

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. Patti Poppe has a grounded, straight-talking style, an inclination to see opportunities in crisis, and an embrace of innovation to enrich the triple bottom line.

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Women lead the world’s most sustainable cities

Corporate Knights

In a highly symbolic move, she had the highway that ran along the left bank of the Seine converted into 4.5 I’ve always been after the triple bottom line,” says Calgary’s Gondek, referring to the triad of social, economic and environmental factors that inform good policy. hectares of pedestrian-only greenspace.