GreenBiz

AUGUST 24, 2020

The rise (and rise) of sustainability-linked finance. The bonds alone come in a veritable rainbow of flavors: green bonds; climate bonds; sustainability bonds; social bonds; ESG bonds; blue bonds (related to oceans); and more. Green bonds are used to finance projects and activities that benefit the environment. Joel Makower.

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GreenBiz

MAY 10, 2021

11 young professionals on the future of sustainable finance. When the conference wrapped up, we asked them what they had learned about the power of finance in advancing a clean, more just economy. Deonna Anderson. Mon, 05/10/2021 - 01:30. Below are answers from most of the latest cohort of Emerging Leaders. Alfre Wimberley.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 12, 2020

The importance of setting science-based corporate strategies to address climate change is irrefutable. Systems change actions that put businesses at the center of making sure the regulations and industry frameworks are in place to accelerate and support corporate climate mitigation. Coca-Cola on board with emphasizing human impact.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

I won’t bore you with the relevant SDG numbers, but you can easily build your own mental systems map from the following: Girls not getting opportunities to educate themselves contributes to reversals in gender equality, which in turn affects the quest for long-term economic prosperity, which makes it harder for girls to get educated.

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GreenBiz

MAY 8, 2021

From how businesses chose to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic to the escalating outcry over racial justice to the increasing urgency around climate change, there is much for companies to answer for this year. Here’s what I found: Demand for climate disclosure is up — and up. Diversity and inclusion: From commitments to accountability.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Bringing a gender lens to climate investments improves their efficacy across all fronts, including finance, sustainability and equity.

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 24, 2021

By Sarah Casey, Portfolio Director, Climate Council. Applying a climate lens to investing is, today, not an unfamiliar notion. Investing with a gender lens, however, is something less familiar but is an increasingly important consideration. The report uncovered some stark realities and inequities, including that only 2.3%

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Combine that with the growth of related finance products and services — sustainability-linked loans and bonds — and you can find sustainability sitting squarely on Wall Street. We call it GreenFin, our portmanteau for "green finance." The explosive growth of green finance makes sense. It’s no small matter. Three in four U.S.

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Business Green

MARCH 8, 2021

As COP26 adaptation and resilience champion, I have met already with a number of female activists, advocates and leaders to hear their views and ideas about how we can ensure gender is at the centre of efforts to adapt and build resilience. Their insights and experiences are invaluable if we are to find the right solutions.

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Business Green

MARCH 7, 2024

It is not a reach to say that failing to tackle gender inequality in the UK's green economy will handicap its ability to bring down emissions and mitigate the disproportionate harm climate change inflicts on women and girls globally. This is just a snapshot of the gender mix in one corner of the net zero transition.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

As Science, Innovation and Gender Day gets underway at the COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow, UK announces raft of initiatives designed to tackle gender inequality around the world. The project is being led by CDC, the UK's development finance bank, and will see the partners launch a toolkit for enabling gender-smart finance.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 7, 2021

If we continue to lose biodiversity, the world’s most vulnerable people will not be able to adapt to climate change nor sustainably produce food, according to a report released on 7 October by the UN’s International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD). We are at a critical juncture. million tons of carbon dioxide. “If

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Elemental Excelerator

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Elemental Excelerator, a leading nonprofit investor in climate technology for deep community impact, introduced its latest cohort, bringing its total amount of investments to $79M. These 15 climate companies will join an existing portfolio of more than 150 investments. With this latest cohort, Elemental is infusing another $12.5M

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Impact Alpha

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Explore opportunities at the intersection of gender-lens investing and climate solutions with entrepreneurs, investors and special. The post The Brief: Life sciences capital, resilient electric grids, women’s healthtech, board diversity, minority-led suppliers, challenging finance fallacies appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Tech giant Amazon will encourage members of the Climate Pledge to step up their support of gender equity in climate solutions. Of course, VC money is just one form of finance, but the reality remains that capital and investment flows to businesses are nowhere near gender-balanced for many, many reasons.

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Business Green

JULY 7, 2021

Reports claim youth climate activists will have the opportunity to interview government ministers on day dedicated to youth and public empowerment, as Salesforce.com confirmed as latest corporate partner. The presidency programme will continue this throughout the two weeks of the summit," Sharma said.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Think of COP28 as climate trade show meets Disneyland meets Davos. Like Disneyland, at COP28 you can choose your own adventure – from hubs on energy transition and climate finance, to side events and roundtables in swanky hotel ballrooms, or serious negotiations in the sectioned-off blue zone. All of climate all at once.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

World’s largest proxy advising firm has updated its guidelines for fund managers to vote against board members who fail to account for climate risk. It comes as major investors around the world have pledged to leverage their significant clout to push companies towards introducing stricter environmental and climate policies.

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Business Green

MARCH 7, 2022

Gender bias, parenting duties, and a lack of interest in sustainability in general highlighted as most significant barriers hindering female executives' ability to influence corporate decision making. Want to find out more about how the net zero transition will impact your business?

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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

If we are to truly combat climate change, there must be more women leaders in finance. Taeun Kwon, 32, is so passionate about replacing finance’s power structure of “pale, male and stale” with women’s leadership that she founded a global organization to help women transform the status quo. So says Taeun Kwon.

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Clean Energy Canada

OCTOBER 26, 2021

“The recent federal election made it clear: Canadians want a government that will show real and effective climate leadership. “In In the lead up to the election, the Liberal Party put forward a strong climate plan that places Canada on track to meet its Paris Agreement commitments. But the window to make the plan a reality is short.

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GreenBiz

JULY 22, 2020

People are understanding how much more the relationships between biodiversity, climate, inequality — may I add racial tension to that? Imagine’s mission is to mobilize business leaders to tackle climate change and global inequality. . And I think it is not surprising that more people are asking now for a more holistic solution.".

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 14, 2022

This week’s edition of Smart Energy Finances highlights Enel Group, which has announced a set of multi-tranche sustainability-linked bonds worth €4.1 Other major moves were also made by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) with a sustainability bond in Croatia and green financing in Turkey. Enel S.p.A.,

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Since starting a solitary strike against climate inaction in Kampala in January, 2019, aged 22, Uganda’s Vanessa Nakate has emerged as one of the world’s most celebrated youth climate justice activists. The whole interview can be watched by visiting the Climate Consciousness Summit 2023.

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GreenBiz

MAY 12, 2021

Nearly all SRI and corporate sustainability strategies focus on changing companies and addressing symptoms, such as climate change, poverty and other major environmental and social challenges. For example, the solution to climate change and deforestation largely does not involve addressing these problems directly. Finance & Investing.

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Mosaic

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Solar-finance company Mosaic says its survey shows one-third believe their current education and experience well-position them for a clean energy job shift, while two-thirds believe they need on-the-job training. The survey was crafted by Mosaic, one of the top providers of financing home solar installations.

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Impact Alpha

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Featured: Impact Voices Three questions for JPMorgan’s new development finance institution. s largest bank, last month took the unorthodox step of creating a “development finance institution” within its corporate and investment bank. Greetings, Agent of Impact! JPMorgan Chase & Co.,

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Grist

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Now, in a new international report released on Monday, they argue the clock is also ticking on efforts to adapt to the devastating consequences of climate change. This week’s report highlights climate impacts and ways to adapt to them, and the third, slated for publication in April, will focus on ways to limit greenhouse gas emissions.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Government says events are designed to 'put a spotlight on how all parts of society and the global economy drives ambitious climate action’. Themes to be tackled over the two-week period include climate adaptation, finance, the clean energy transition, nature and land use, gender, and youth.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Only 15 out of 102 shareholder resolutions on climate and social issues received majority support from asset managers over the past year, according to new research this week from ShareAction, which analysed the voting decisions of 60 of the world's largest asset managers from September 2019 to August 2020.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

As the impacts of a changing climate rapidly intensify worldwide, the climate crisis is also hitting businesses and the financial sector where it hurts: the wallet. The Chamber’s opposition to the SEC’s proposal goes against the global push towards more comparable and reliable climate risk disclosures.”. “It

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

negotiations, that she sees as the hidden culprit behind 30 years of missed chances to confront the climate crisis: the legacy of collective trauma. What lies underneath the perennial deadlocks at climate conferences, or the enduring grip of the fossil fuel lobby on the way we order our lives?

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has this week revealed the first wave of recipients to clinch funding from his $10bn Earth Fund, exactly nine months after the billionaire Amazon founder launched the programme to support the work of climate scientists, environmental activists, and other green groups.

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Grist

APRIL 9, 2020

That’s the question that researchers recently posed to thousands of people in over a dozen variations — including asking whether they’d want to know how badly climate change could impact their zip code. Other topics included personal health, finances, and how others perceive you.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The Women’s Energy Network Greater NYC Chapter and Women in Cleantech and Sustainability (WCS) invite you to join a panel discussion on how states could accelerate their achievement of their Renewable Energy Standards (RPS) through community solar projects and how to finance them. Project Finance, Leeward Renewable Energy. Ines Serrao.

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Business Green

JANUARY 30, 2020

That's the dramatic message sent to world leaders from 20 high profile climate, environmental, justice, and human rights campaigners, in a letter calling on governments to "act faster" to tackle the interlocking crises facing the human and natural worlds. We are watching you." These Goals are all our Goals and can only be achieved together.".

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Business Green

APRIL 15, 2020

A broader focus of sustainable finance is needed to support sustainable business models covering both environmental and social elements, argues Constance Chalchat from BNP Paribas CIB. Sustainable finance has mainly been associated with green finance. So what has changed for sustainable finance?

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