Chris Hall

MAY 11, 2023

The Folium Fund III marks the first time that Folium is combining agriculture, forests, and carbon optionality into a single investment vehicle. The regenerative natural resources fund targets raising capital from accredited investors, with an investment period of four years and a term of 12 years.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 11, 2024

Mondelēz has made targeted investments and progress in three key areas 1 : More Sustainable Ingredient Sourcing: Working to advance deforestation-free supply chains, reduce carbon emissions, accelerate regenerative agriculture practices and support biodiversity.

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3BL Media

JUNE 11, 2024

The United Nations describes its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as “integrated and indivisible,” recognizing that sustainability efforts must build upon the connections between individuals, communities, and the environment. Building connections and fostering unified responses are crucial for resilience.

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James Militzer

JANUARY 22, 2025

The climate tech ecosystem is witnessing an unprecedented wave of innovation, with breakthroughs in renewable energy, regenerative agriculture, carbon capture and more. Many climate tech startups struggle to move beyond the development of minimum viable products to broader market adoption.

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3BL Media

MAY 23, 2022

Report highlights inspiring stories of innovative investments in local regenerative food initiatives that generate positive results for communities and nature. Sustainable Development Goals. KEYWORDS: regenerative food systems, impact investment, Global Alliance for the Future of Food.

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Cisco CSR

MARCH 29, 2022

The time is now for us to invest in sustainable practices in healthcare and beyond. . Cisco is committed to ensuring a sustainable and regenerative planet with ongoing initiatives and solutions aimed at reducing emissions and addressing climate change.? . Creating a sustainable and regenerative planet is no small task.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 16, 2024

Mini grids could help us achieve the ambitious UN Sustainable Development Goal 7 , which aims for universal energy access by 2030. By leveraging digital tools and advanced batteries, Jaza addresses the energy deficit impacting 600 million people in sub-Saharan Africa, where annual fossil fuel expenditure reaches $27 billion.

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3BL Media

JUNE 30, 2022

According to the Stanford Social Innovation Review, capital flowing to early-stage climate solutions is disturbingly low, despite the critical role that these investments play in climate change mitigation. Funders may be reluctant to invest in early-stage solutions for a variety of reasons.

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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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Cisco CSR

JUNE 16, 2022

According to the Stanford Social Innovation Review, capital flowing to early-stage climate solutions is disturbingly low, despite the critical role that these investments play in climate change mitigation. Funders may be reluctant to invest in early-stage solutions for a variety of reasons.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 8, 2024

Other frameworks, such as the Soil Carbon Initiative – a third-party regenerative agriculture commitment and verification programme – have also emerged in parallel. The UK’s land and property rights are also stronger than in many other countries where carbon projects are being developed.”

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James Militzer

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

To position themselves for success in the future, these companies are increasingly working to develop more regenerative, circular business models that embed sustainability into the core of their operations. Developing the Next Generation of Leaders. Other policies, like the U.K.’s

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Chris Hall

MARCH 1, 2024

This is a key part of what I’ve helped develop: identifying areas where we think we can make the biggest real-world difference, and having the strength of character and leadership to say not just what we think we can do – but also what we can’t.” Real assets currently make up a quarter of the fund’s investment portfolio (£2.5

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

There are other major social risks to address, including forced labour, illegal recruitment practices, and hazardous working conditions. “ A shift away from conventional aquaculture towards technology-heavy solutions and regenerative aquaculture has started, but this requires capital,” says Mosnier.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Nicole Etchart, CEO of impact-led manager NESsT, explains how the regenerative agriculture practices of local communities in Latin America hold the key to transforming food systems. Food systems contribute one-third of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

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James Militzer

JANUARY 11, 2022

Thanks in part to these characteristics, the artisan economy already advances 12 out of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). RETHINKING BUSINESS APPROACHES FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT. This is possible because formal craft-led businesses/ MSMEs in India have a unique growth trajectory. thereby formalising them.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

That success culminated in 2022 with the acquisition of SunFunder by Mirova , an impact-led investor owned by Natixis Investment Managers. The merger was a major step in the platform’s development, and one that enabled it to significantly expand its financing capacity.

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Stanford Social Innovation

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Our findings may extend beyond individual investors to smaller organizations and endowments that are deciding where and how to invest. We are not investment advisors, but we know that a good first step in choosing investments is to determine one’s goal. Another good option is Calvert Impact Capital’s Community Investment Notes.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 22, 2022

Generating returns from regenerative agriculture is positive for the planet but entails a different risk profile for investors, says Paul McMahon, Managing Partner at SLM Partners. Climate change impacts are “stressing agriculture, forestry, fisheries, and aquaculture, increasingly hindering efforts to meet human needs”.

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Chris Hall

MAY 2, 2024

Rethinking public markets As interest in sustainable food and agriculture has developed, publicly listed markets have been an obvious entry point for most investors. The last of these components is becoming ever more critical, especially in light of the concomitant rise of impact investing. This is seldom the reality today.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The fund’s objective is to achieve long-term capital growth through the selection of companies that contribute to the transition towards a sustainable circular economy, a model that is restorative or regenerative by intention and design. The fund has already invested around £1.3

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Chris Hall

MARCH 8, 2023

Both the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and the Clean Investment Funds (CIF) have incorporated gender into their governing instruments and have a gender policy and action plan in place. It was developed in collaboration with Aviva, the Oliver Wyman Forum and 2X Global and will be tested by a group of investors over the course of 2023.

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3BL Media

MARCH 11, 2024

It is in our shared interest to help humans and nature navigate a changing climate by investing in regenerative technologies, workforces, and nature itself. The Cisco Foundation’s Climate Grants and Investments team is working toward that vision by providing nonprofit grants and impact investing to support innovative climate solutions.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 22, 2020

Belgium-born strategist Charlotte Bande connects her career in sustainable business to two incidents: an encounter on vacation in Egypt as a preteen with a young boy brushing his teeth with mudwater, and her father’s decision to leap into a sustainability role while she was pursuing her degree in commercial engineering and sustainable development.

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Stanford Social Innovation

MARCH 31, 2025

Paul, by helping BIPOC and low-wealth individuals become homeowners, entrepreneurs, and commercial real estate developers. There are reasons why traditional impact investors look for solutions with universal appeal. Systemic investing programs should work across the macro-, meso-, and micro- levels of intervention.

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