Investing in next-gen farmers will create resilient food systems
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 17, 2022
USDA to invest up to $550 million will help younger farmers access land and get support, an important boost.
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GreenBiz
OCTOBER 17, 2022
USDA to invest up to $550 million will help younger farmers access land and get support, an important boost.
GreenBiz
JUNE 21, 2022
Bringing a gender lens to climate resilience investments will help you to both identify and mitigate potential risks while at the same time uncover new opportunities for investment, innovation and impact.
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Impact Alpha
JANUARY 31, 2024
The post Investing at the intersection of affordable housing and climate resilience appeared first on ImpactAlpha. The cost of addressing the challenges facing humanity today dwarfs the amount of money the world is putting into them. Climate change, accelerating.
GreenBiz
MAY 3, 2022
The need for investment in more resilient buildings is clear, but many countries lack the data to properly assess these risks.
GreenBiz
AUGUST 17, 2020
The many faces of energy resilience. Resilience" is a powerful word in 2020. Thinking about the idea of resilience as it relates to equity and energy systems merely as the ability to keep the lights on, however, is missing a powerful opportunity to right the scales of justice. On resilience. Michelle Moore. Do justice.
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
Sponsored: How local leaders can partner with financial institutions to support frontline communities.
GreenBiz
DECEMBER 16, 2022
Adaptation investment can help promote climate resilience, benefit local societies and ensure a prolonged return on investment.
NRDC onEarth
OCTOBER 12, 2023
The Biden administration’s new National Climate Resilience Framework will help the federal government align decision-making and investments with the need to adapt to climate change.
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 2, 2020
How Stockton and California are building resilience from the ground up. So, how is California building resilience in both its rural and urban communities? We've had this shock to our system from the pandemic that has exposed these fault lines and the basic lack of resilience in our system in our economy. Deonna Anderson.
Envirotec Magazine
SEPTEMBER 26, 2023
A new report, ‘Risk & Resilience: The role of cities in tackling the climate crisis’ , argues that climate resilience must be embraced as a guiding principle across urban development, given the extreme exposure of cities to climate risk.
Impact Alpha
MARCH 14, 2024
The post Green Climate Fund invests in India’s climate resilience via the Avaana Sustainability Fund appeared first on ImpactAlpha. The Small Industries Development Bank of India is the main financing body for tens of millions of India’s small businesses. The bank manages.
Envirotec Magazine
MAY 27, 2022
The importance of supply chain resilience in the water sector was the overarching message from Baroness Brown, speaking at a British Water reception held at the House of Lords this week (end of May). She said, “It is really crucial that everybody in the water sector looks at their supply chain resilience.
Impact Alpha
AUGUST 24, 2023
The post In Maui, investing in future resilience and community stewardship after the fires appeared first on ImpactAlpha. ImpactAlpha, Aug. 24 – From firefighting resources to land use planning to water rights to electric grid maintenance to community finance, this month’s.
Impact Alpha
MAY 13, 2020
ImpactAlpha, May 12 – The GIIN has launched the Response, Recovery and Resilience Investment Coalition. The ‘R3 Coalition’ aims to identify opportunities to invest in health interventions and access to capital and direct new capital to fill COVID financing gaps.
GreenBiz
MAY 29, 2020
The COVID-19 recovery requires a resilient circular economy. The call for a more resilient, circular and low-carbon economic model has garnered support from a growing number of businesses and governments over the past few years, and appears today more relevant than ever. Jocelyn Bleriot. Fri, 05/29/2020 - 01:00.
Smart Energy International
JANUARY 8, 2024
The US Department of Energy (DOE) has announced $70 million in funding to support research into resilience technologies to reduce risks to energy infrastructure from a variety of hazards, including cyber and physical threats, natural disasters and climate-change fueled extreme weather events. Granholm. “As
Smart Energy International
NOVEMBER 19, 2023
US President Biden is announcing more than $6 billion in investments meant to make communities across the country more resilient to the impacts of climate change, including by strengthening America’s aging electric grid infrastructure, reducing flood risk to communities, supporting conservation efforts and advancing environmental justice.
Envirotec Magazine
NOVEMBER 15, 2023
Waves crashing against a sea wall (image credit: Ray-Bilcliff, available on Pexels) A seemingly pioneering research project that aims to strengthen the resilience of sea walls to increased coastal flooding has been launched by Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh and Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia.
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 6, 2020
Our COVID-19 response can make our cities more resilient to heat waves. In the wake of COVID-19, when governments will provide massive stimulus funding to restart economies, it’s more important than ever to consider the long-term value creation of urban infrastructure investments. Roland Hunziker. Tue, 10/06/2020 - 01:00.
GreenBiz
MAY 5, 2020
Sustainable infrastructure investments can aid the post-COVID recovery. Many are considering a tried-and-true method to boost economies in the short term and provide wide societal benefits in the long term: infrastructure investment. Economically, the case for technologically advanced, resilient and sustainable infrastructure is clear.
Impact Alpha
AUGUST 29, 2023
Welcome to the latest ImpactAlpha Open, our free weekly newsletter of top news and opportunities in impact investing. The post ImpactAlpha Open: Investing in resilience in Maui + wither anti-ESG appeared first on ImpactAlpha. Hi there, Agent of Impact!
Impact Alpha
JANUARY 19, 2024
Embedded resilience. Try this alternative narrative: Positive, The post The Week in impact investing: Disrupting dysfunction appeared first on ImpactAlpha. TGIF, Agents of Impact! ? Feeling deflated about the politicization of ESG, DEI and “woke” capitalism?
Impact Alpha
JANUARY 30, 2024
The post CARICOM Development Fund anchors Caribbean climate resilience fund appeared first on ImpactAlpha. ImpactAlpha, January 30 — With storms, flooding and erosion, Caribbean islands are vulnerable in a warming world. The region’s climate adaptation annual financing.
Smart Energy International
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
The Public Utilities Commission (PUC) has approved Hawaiian Electric’s $190 million Climate Adaptation Transmission and Distribution Resilience Program application, which will help defend against the increasing threat of wildfires and harden its five island electric grids against severe weather-related events fuelled by climate change.
GreenBiz
DECEMBER 6, 2021
After experiencing a devastating outage, government officials in Montgomery County, Maryland, decided to invest in energy infrastructure that would remain on, even when the grid went down. But instead of waiting for another disaster and grid failure, one community took action.
Envirotec Magazine
SEPTEMBER 26, 2023
The UK government will invest £25 million in projects that use nature to protect communities from flooding, Environment Minister Rebecca Pow announced on 22 September. That is why we are driving investment to harness the power of nature. A flooded riverbank in Windsor. billion flood programme.
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 12, 2022
Given the disproportionate amount of capital flowing in established economies, and the urgency of climate adaptation and resilience, the time to move money in this direction is now.
Impact Alpha
MARCH 26, 2020
Chalk it up to the resilience dividend. Cities who have taken a resilience approach are better prepared,” Global Resilient Cities. The post Investments in resilience pay dividends in combating the corona pandemic appeared first on ImpactAlpha. have struggled?
Smart Energy International
NOVEMBER 22, 2023
Italy’s Enel Group has announced a new investment strategy for the period 2024-2026, doubling down on grid investments and being more selective in renewables. The nearly €19 billion for grid investments will focus on improving quality, resiliency and digitalisation of the power grid, alongside new connections.
GreenBiz
MARCH 20, 2023
Frontline communities have been underrepresented and underserved in climate resiliency efforts to date, mirroring their underinvestment in the investment field as a whole.
Forbes Green Tech
AUGUST 9, 2020
As the most vulnerable group to climate change, investing in their climate resilience would improve productivity, food security and the economy. Jamaica’s 154,000 smallholder farmers are the backbone of the agriculture sector and are vital to the Caribbean country’s sustainable development.
Envirotec Magazine
DECEMBER 6, 2022
A planning application was submitted in August, which set out an ambitious sustainability agenda of climate resilience and Net Zero requirements, integrated into the design, including ultra-low carbon emissions, an acute focus on energy efficiency, insulation, on-site energy generation and zero use of fossil fuels in the running of the building.
GreenTechMedia
APRIL 20, 2021
Heather Rock joined PG&E as director of climate resilience in 2018 -- just two weeks before a faulty PG&E line sparked the most destructive wildfire in U.S. ” Heather is one of the people trying to bring a culture of climate resilience into the mainstream. Back in November 2019, our host Shayle made a bet.
Impact Alpha
MARCH 11, 2020
The post How community investment funds are building resiliency to disasters, pandemics and economic shocks appeared first on ImpactAlpha. “There’s nothing really left available to you other than the relationships and networks you have,” she says. She considered how to strengthen those networks so.
Impact Alpha
SEPTEMBER 8, 2023
Burners are a resilient bunch. The post The Week in Impact Investing: Thinking Bigger appeared first on ImpactAlpha. TGIF, Agents of Impact! ? Utopia now. As they trickled back into normie life this week, many already.
Impact Alpha
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
The post How three investors are measuring their impact on climate resilience appeared first on ImpactAlpha. 2023 closed with a flurry of new climate finance commitments announced at COP28. These commitments–notably including $30 billion from the UAE and $12.8.
Smart Energy International
JANUARY 16, 2024
As global leaders gather at Davos for the World Economic Forum (WEF) 2024, those in attendance must push for the mobilisation of trillions of dollars from private money into sustainable investments to combat climate change.
Business Green
JULY 6, 2023
Green Finance Institute highlights major shortfall in funding for infrastructure upgrades that can bolster UK climate resilience
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 12, 2020
Blue carbon' markets could be a crucial pathway for increasing private investment in coastal and marine conservation projects.
Impact Alpha
JANUARY 23, 2023
The post BlueOrchard invests $5.29 million in Brazilian insurer Newe for climate resilience appeared first on ImpactAlpha. 23 – Climate-driven floods, droughts and extreme weather around the world caused more than $268 billion in costs last year.
GreenBiz
APRIL 30, 2020
Here's what will help beyond immediate disaster response.
Smart Energy International
OCTOBER 27, 2023
Rhizome, a climate resilience planning platform for the power grid, announced its official launch, initial institutional capital raise of $2.5 Rhizome’s veteran team is focused on helping utilities and regulators make the grid more resilient without significant cost increases for communities.
Impact Alpha
MARCH 13, 2020
The post The Week in impact investing: Resilience appeared first on ImpactAlpha. On ImpactAlpha’s newest podcast, host Brian Walsh talks with Amy Cortese about the disruption in energy markets and Dennis Price offers a personal take on this week’s Agents of Impact.
Smart Energy International
OCTOBER 19, 2023
In its biggest investment in the nation’s grid, the White House announced a $3.46 billion investment for 58 projects across 44 states to strengthen electric grid resilience and reliability, invest in microgrids and enable more renewable energy generation across America.
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