ESG Today

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

See below for the highlights of the past week, and get all your ESG news at ESG Today: Sustainability Goals, Initiatives and Achievements Walmart Hits Goal to Reduce 1 Billion Tons of Supply Chain Emissions 6 Years Ahead of 2030 Target Microsoft Signs Deal to Remove 350,000 Tonnes of Carbon Through Agroforestry Rio Tinto Signs Australia’s Largest-Ever (..)

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Chris Hall

MARCH 25, 2022

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news on technology and tools in the sustainable investing sector, including Impact Investing Institute, ESG Book, SIX, Sustainalytics, ISS ESG, Marsh, Deutsche Börse and AirCarbon Exchange. The package includes a practical handbook, an explanatory legal paper and a set of case studies.

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James Militzer

JULY 18, 2024

The impact investing and broader social business space is filled with people who are driven to make a positive difference in others’ lives. I recently published “ Strong Together: Building Partnerships across Cultures in an Age of Distrust ,” a book that delves into the question of how to empower others.

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Impact Alpha

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Quoting his own book, economist Milton Friedman wrote in the New York Times Magazine in 1970, “There is one and only one social. The post Fiduciaries have a duty of care to their investors and to the world appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 9, 2024

In a new book, the PRI’s former head of policy argues for a more focused approach that leans into systemic stewardship. The rapid growth of responsible investing has brought the industry to an inflection point requiring practitioners to reconsider their focus and purpose if they are to deliver on its potential, a new book contends.

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Impact Alpha

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Quoting his own book, economist Milton Friedman wrote in the New York Times Magazine in 1970, “There is one and only one social. The post Fiduciaries have a duty of care to their to their investors and to the world appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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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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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Pierre-Laurent Macridis 28, Montreal head of strategy, corporate development & impact, Fondaction Asset Management Pierre-Laurent Macridis tries to develop solutions that will tackle a problem in the most efficient way. His work has catalyzed more than $500 million in impact investing, primarily targeted toward climate change.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

“Consider soil pollution, a growing liability,” he says, adding that a significant portion of habitable land is dedicated to agriculture, yet soil health is declining. This imbalance between nature-related assets and liabilities poses a substantial challenge, he says, given the need to balance the books over the course of the next 20 to 30 years. (..)

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James Militzer

DECEMBER 16, 2022

We see the truth in what Atul Gawande wrote in his book about the medical industry, “Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance”: “Better is possible. It does not take genius. It takes diligence. It takes moral clarity. It takes ingenuity. Zubaida Bai is president and CEO of Grameen Foundation. Photo courtesy of Grameen Foundation.

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James Militzer

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Providing debt capital to growing fintechs allows these businesses to continue to serve customers by giving them access to working capital and loan book funding. Debt capital also protects equity investors against significant dilution of their percentage of share of the company resulting from new equity investments at depressed valuation.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 17, 2022

AXA IM Alts’ investment aims to support the continued development of GreenStruxure’s renewable energy microgrids, which provide affordable, decarbonised energy, bill optimisation and sustainability credits. UK-based M&G Investments has made a US$50 million investment in global freight booking and payment platform Freightos Group.

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Stanford Social Innovation

MAY 12, 2022

The reason, researchers Gregg Colburn and Clayton Page Aldern argue in their new book “Homelessness is a Housing Problem,” is as simple as the title. 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.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 31, 2022

The round was co-led by BDC Capital Women in Technology Venture Fund and Climate Innovation Capital, with participation from the slate of investors that backed the company’s Seed Round in February 2021, including OMERS Ventures, Golden Ventures, Garage Capital, Active Impact Investments, Klass Capital and Bryker Capital.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 11, 2023

Natural law But what is the end-state that system change is seeking through this realignment of capital? Dixon has developed his theory of Global System Change in several books.

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B the Change

MARCH 31, 2023

Finding aligned impact investors was important to us and to our organization so that we could scale while staying focused on our mission.” Tapper had read Jenny Kassan’s book, Raise Capital on Your Own Terms , and reached out to The Kassan Group to learn more about non-VC funding strategies.

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Carlos Sanchez

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Among investors, sustainable investing is evolving from negative screening toward engaging with companies. Impact investing is getting traction and, in 2022, reached 1.2 trillion in AUM, according to a report by the Global Investing Network. Consequently the information ESG investors are seeking is changing too.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 22, 2022

However, McMahon is realistic about the amount of investment institutions will allocate to real assets, and within that, how much will make it to sustainable agriculture specifically. “An

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ESG Today

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Consumer-focused private equity firm L Catterton announced today the launch of a new impact investing platform, aimed at investing in and growing mission-driven consumer companies seeking to make the economy cleaner, healthier, and more equitable.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

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 He wrote Pollinator Man , a children’s book that teaches readers about different environmental issues and how they can be part of the solution.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 22, 2020

Elizondo abandoned his plan for a career in the public sector and booked a one-way ticket to San Francisco, with no job and nowhere to live. . But after witnessing the practices of America's massive animal production industry as an intern at the Department of Agriculture, he became convinced the foods he loved needed a 21st-century upgrade.

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ESG Today

JULY 23, 2023

Trillion Oil Fund Commits to Reporting Portfolio Emissions Guest Post – Beyond Disclosures: What is the Direction of Travel for ESG Regulation – and How Could Evolving Regulatory Developments Impact your Business?

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Stanford Social Innovation

MARCH 3, 2022

The UK is in a bit of a bubble with health initiatives, compared with the United States—we have the NHS, which is a public health system, whereas, as pointed out in Michael Lewis’s searing book on the pandemic, The Premonition , the United States. Impact investing on the ESHG level is about investing in companies.

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Sustainability Update

MARCH 8, 2023

The threat of “ESG” joins such current strawmen as Critical Race Theory , “Woke” Capitalism , Don’t Say Gay (in the State of Florida), the allegations of certain “grooming” books being found in school libraries, and other specious arguments set up by political conservatives and Red state public sector leaders to gain points with the Republican base.

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