Environmental News Bits

JUNE 10, 2021

Download the document. The Role of Natural Climate Solutions in Corporate Climate Commitments: A Brief for Investors is a first-of-its-kind engagement tool for investors to spur meaningful dialogue with companies on the role and use of natural climate solutions in delivering on those commitments.

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Impact Investing 105

Chris Hall

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Asset owners urged to set holistic goals, managers encouraged to innovate, after GIIN report highlights measurement challenges. Impact investing is becoming a central strategy for large asset owners globally, but divergence remains over how asset managers balance financial risk and return expectations with their clients’ impact-related goals.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Investors are increasingly considering sustainability beyond the risk management lens, with the global impact investing market reaching an estimated US$1.64 Increasing sophistication There is little likelihood or demand for a ‘one size fits all’ model for impact investing.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

DESCRIPTION: In 2021, we continued to migrate our impact investing through our Sustainable Futures strategy, as we completed the Mondel?z Each partner tracks and documents progress against a set of global healthy lifestyle metrics developed in partnership with experts from Yale School of Public Health. SOURCE: Mondel?z

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Impact Alpha

OCTOBER 2, 2019

2 – Impact investors have beefed up the case that social and environmental impact can generate competitive financial returns. What hasn’t been well documented is, uh, impact. The increasingly sophisticated practice of impact measurement and management is changing that. ImpactAlpha, Oct.

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Impact Investing 45

James Militzer

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Around 3 billion people across the world rely on solid fuels for their daily cooking needs, and the adverse effects of traditional cooking methods on health , environmental and socioeconomic conditions , especially among women, are well documented. Invest in cookstoves based on Human-Centric Design principles.

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Supply Chains Supply Chain Development Banking 98

Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Additionally, the document provides comparisons to other sustainability fund-focused disclosure and labelling regimes – most notably, the EU’s Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR), which is currently under review.

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Greenwashing Net Zero Development Impact Investing 80

Chris Hall

JUNE 28, 2024

The fund seeks to generate positive impact within specific social impact sectors, such as affordable housing and health, whilst also delivering a sufficiently compelling financial return. Many in the audience recognised the need to allocate in this area from a citizenship and retail client perspective.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 11, 2024

Achieving this milestone includes providing documentation of the company's carbon accounting, aligning to new standards, continuing to transform its business operations and supply chains, and transparently reporting progress. C protocol.

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James Militzer

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

To tackle this, we found that sharing real-life success stories from our investments was helpful. We started documenting both financial and impact results and celebrating our small and big wins to inspire action at a larger scale. Tim Gocher is Founder and CEO of Dolma Fund Management.

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Logistics Impact Investing Climate Change Development 52

Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The handbook should be a public domain document, the report says, giving residents and local businesses an opportunity to understand the extent to which there are shortcomings in social value delivery, and encouraging these stakeholders to apply pressure on parties including local government and management companies to deliver on commitments. .

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Impact Investing Carbon Offsets Development 52

James Militzer

JULY 25, 2022

During this phase, the lawyers will want to review the relevant documents, including correspondence, contracts and meeting notes. During this due diligence phase, the fund might ask to review all relevant documents, speak with the witnesses and lawyers on the case, or solicit input from outside counsel on specialized areas of the law.

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Impact Investing Development Manufacturing 98

James Militzer

JUNE 6, 2022

When evaluating new partners, we are diligent about the criteria we set, which includes requirements for serving vulnerable populations, prioritizing high social impact practices, and centering client affordability. Both Kiva Capital and Kiva Marketplace (our crowdfunding platform) contribute to impact investing, no matter the amount.

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Corporate Social Responsibility Impact Investing 98

James Militzer

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Small business owners, whether women or men, often lack the know-how to craft solid business plans, collect the required loan documentation or keep a proper accounting system. They want to attract borrowers who are already qualified for their financial services.

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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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Impact Investing Development Academics 98

3BL Media

AUGUST 2, 2022

CCI has been a portfolio company of Leaps by Bayer, the impact investment arm of Bayer for the past seven years. This document may include forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 based on current assumptions and forecasts made by Bunge management.

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Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

It relies on allegations documented by credible largely English-language media outlets, international and local human rights NGOs, national and regional governments, and intergovernmental organisations – breaking down datasets by geography, sector and type of abuse.

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Supply Chain Supply Chains Global Economy Development 64

Chris Hall

MARCH 7, 2024

Church of England Pensions Board Deputy Chief Responsible Investment Officer Stephen Barrie, a taskforce member, stressed the need for pension funds to understand and act on social factors that impact investments and outcomes. The document also contained a framework to help addressing social factors in pension schemes.

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Supply Chains Supply Chain Impact Investing 59

Chris Hall

OCTOBER 4, 2023

In the Principles official document , the Treasury highlights its focus on financial institutions’ Scope 3 financed and facilitated greenhouse gas emissions, which are typically the largest type for financial institutions.

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Net Zero Climate Change Banking Impact Investing 59

James Militzer

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Each phase of the impact strategy development was refined as we gathered more data and input, and we see this as an ongoing, critical component of the strategy. We seek for this plan to be a living document, one we will continue to improve upon as we implement the strategy and learn from the results. Who will we serve?

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Development Climate Change Banking Impact Investing 124

James Militzer

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

While digitization was on the rise even before COVID, it’s been well documented in NextBillion and other outlets that the pandemic served as an accelerator to these efforts. Embracing Digitization.

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Supply Chains Supply Chain Digitalization Shipping 98

Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

NESsT aims to not only invest in its bioeconomy portfolio but also document the stories from the ground.

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Regenerative Climate Change Development Impact Investing 80

Chris Hall

AUGUST 24, 2023

The document , the Exposure Draft for General Methodology 1: Conceptual Framework for Impact Accounting is seeking to establish key concepts, principles, and definitions for the planned methodologies.

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Banking Development Impact Investing 52

Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Parameswaran says: “We identified the critical opportunities to strengthen this market, and how labelled bonds should be structured in a way that investors believe will ensure meaningful impact outcomes.”. Inclusion of a requirement that details community and grassroots-level involvement. Recourse for misuse of funds.

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B the Change

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

The lawyer will work with the claimant to review documents, meet with witnesses, and apply the facts to the relevant legal rules in order to confirm that the claimant has a strong claim that would result in substantial damages.

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Impact Investing 52

Chris Hall

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

A fortnight later, Chancellor Rachel Reeves launched a pensions review to foster investment, increase saver returns and tackle inefficiency in the pensions system. The document sought feedback on the introduction of mandatory asset allocation, suggesting schemes could be compelled to increase their UK investments.

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Net Zero Development Impact Investing Sustainable Investment 80

James Militzer

JANUARY 11, 2022

Similarly, Jaipur Rugs (also documented by C.K. Reimagining Access to Capital: While India is fast becoming a focal point for impact investing, much like in other parts of the world, the pool of investors remains limited to sectors such as education and financial inclusion.

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Supply Chains Supply Chain Banking Development 98

Stanford Social Innovation

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

And this wealth concentration at the top is being passed down within families through an unprecedented (and now well-documented) wealth transfer across generations. A cavernous wealth gap—already vast—has been widening considerably each year.

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Impact Investing Climate Change 130

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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Net Zero Carbon Offsets Supply Chains Supply Chain 52

Chris Hall

MAY 12, 2022

The market will be a designation for closed-ended investment funds that are listed or admitted to the exchange’s markets, enabling investors and market participants to identify funds committed to investing in carbon credit projects meeting internationally recognised standards.

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Sustainable Investment Analytics Development Supply Chains 52

Stanford Social Innovation

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Without these, social impact research remains little more than a compilation of well-documented PDFs. We need legislation that institutionalizes impact data standards, requires the use of evidence and data to maximize grant impacts and mandates impact verification and reporting.

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Academics Analytics Development Impact Investing 109

Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

In the 97-page document , currently under consultation, the financial regulator says it wants firms to identify and respond to these types of systemic and market-wide risks. It notes that investors can’t diversify away from them, so they have an important impact on returns.

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Net Zero Impact Investing Sustainable Investment Climate Change 52

Chris Hall

AUGUST 24, 2022

Further, “an element of flexibility” should be introduced when companies are unable to source the relevant data, as approximations and estimates “could lead to misleading, inconsistent and inaccurate reporting that could negatively impact investment decisions and capital allocation”. .

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Climate Change Net Zero Sustainable Investment Development 52

Chris Hall

MARCH 22, 2022

In addition, these indices have mostly under-performed their equity market benchmarks over recent years and investors may be averse to further investment in the water theme as a result. Global water scarcity is well-documented and creates significant financial risk to investors who fail to account for water risk in their portfolio.

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We Mean Business Coalition

MAY 5, 2023

The communiqué focusses on the primary need to accelerate the transition to clean energy and reduce demand for gas, with conditions on any gas investments to be consistent with climate commitments and not create ‘lock in’ effects. Increasingly widespread climate goals are already impacting investment decisions in some parts of the world.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

These initiatives complement those of the Cisco Foundation , the companys philanthropic wing, which in 2021 pledged $100 million in climate-related grants to nonprofits and impact investments, particularly in developing regions like Africa and the Amazon. Such metals represent an almost literal gold mine.

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Waste Chief Sustainability Officer Shipping Development 130

James Militzer

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The longer-term projected ROI was even more positive: All but three companies showed a positive ROI when projecting over a 10-year period, with some projected to deliver up to $15 and even $30 for every $1 invested, and the average projected ROI coming in around $5.39 per dollar invested.

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Supply Chains Supply Chain Impact Investing Development 97