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ESG Today: Week in Review

ESG Today

Moody’s Expands ESG Credit Impact Scores to Cover Healthcare, Agriculture, Transport & Logistics Companies. ESG Investing. Amundi Expands “ESG Improvers” Investment Range with New Emerging Markets Fund. Schroders Launches Natural Capital Impact Investment Manager with Conservation International.

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Lessons from a Decade of Investing in a Frontier Market: What Impact Investors Can Learn from Nepal’s First International Private Equity Fund

James Militzer

When our portfolio company, Upaya City Cargo , was named Best Startup of the Year 2021 in a local startup award competition, we worked to leverage this publicity to show how the company revolutionised logistics in Nepal, providing essential services to small businesses and creating hundreds of jobs.

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Kenya’s iProcure, used by a million farmers, is the latest African funding crunch casualty

Impact Alpha

The Agtech startup iProcure launched a decade ago to untangle supply-chain logistics for Africa’s hundreds of millions of smallholder farmers. Now the company. The post Kenya’s iProcure, used by a million farmers, is the latest African funding crunch casualty appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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What I Learned About Net Zero From a Recent #CiscoChat

3BL Media

That’s why Cisco is focused on reducing emissions by optimizing resource efficiency through our designs, manufacturing and logistics, and reuse and recycling, as well as using our technology to help customers do the same. The remaining 45 percent relates to manufacturing and using products. Looking Forward.

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Innovating in Impact Measurement: A Tech-Driven Platform Aims to Simplify Data Collection and Reporting

James Militzer

Resource constraints: Many small social enterprises or nonprofit organizations face challenges in tracking their impact due to limited financial and technological resources.

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Mondel?z International Advances Progress Toward 2050 Net Zero Emissions Goal

3BL Media

Manufacturing Plant Efficiencies - Initiated investments in several of the Company’s European operations to expand state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities and invest in newer technologies such as electric ovens to reduce natural gas use. Transition to Bioenergy - Substituted cleaner energy at some of the Company’s operations.

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The Plan for Possible: How Cisco is Connecting a Regenerative Future

3BL Media

We have a goal that 80% of Cisco component, manufacturing, and logistics suppliers by spend have a public, absolute GHG emissions reduction target by FY25. We aim to transform our business to extend the useful life of our products and provide ongoing services. Visit our ESG Reporting Hub for more details on our environmental initiatives. *