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  • Virtual - 1 Day
    Thursday
    October 7
    2021

    Inclusive Green Finance – A Regulatory Perspective

    The heads of the e-MFP’s Green Inclusive and Climate-Smart Finance Action Group, Natalia Realpe Carrillo and Davide Forcella, are pleased to invite you to a webinar series this Thursday, October 7, at 16:00 CEST. Johanna Nyman, head of Inclusive Green Finance at the Alliance for Financial Inclusion (AFI) will present from a policy and regulatory perspective the role of inclusive green finance in expanding access to green technologies and mitigating climate change.

    Time: 16:00 CEST / 10:00 AM EST

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  • Virtual - 1 Day
    Thursday
    October 7
    2021

    GSG Global Impact Summit

    Join them for Creativity, Culture & Capital: Opportunities for impact investing in the global creative economy at the GSG Global Impact Summit.

    2021 is the United Nations International Year of Creative Economy for Sustainable Development. Projected to soon be 10% of the global economy, creative industries are among the most rapidly growing sectors, the source of 30 million jobs in the formal economy and 300 million jobs in the informal economy, and a key driver of inclusive and sustainable growth as the world recovers from the COVID pandemic. Hear directly from entrepreneurs on how the creative sector delivers social and environmental impact, and from fund managers on the opportunities for impact investors to back a more just and sustainable global creative economy.

    Moderated by:
    Carolina Biquard & Barbara Russi – Fundación Compromiso
    Fran Sanderson – Nesta’s Arts & Culture Finance
    Laura Callanan – Upstart Co-Lab

    Featuring: 
    Adriana Cachay and Laerke Skyum – AYNI
    Sarah Coward – In The Room
    Pree Walia – Preemadonna
    Kamal Mouzawak – Souk El Tayeb
    Evelyne Dioh – WIC Capital

    Time: 10:05am EDT / 3:05 BST

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  • Virtual - 1 Day
    Thursday
    October 7
    2021

    21st Century Investing: Driving Systems Change

    In their new book, 21st Century Investing: Redirecting Financial Strategies to Drive Systems Change, authors William Burckart and Steve Lydenberg assert that, “investment today has evolved historically from a basic, conventional approach (concern about the risks of security selection and portfolio risk management) to embrace as well sustainable investment (intentionally achieving social and environmental benefits along with financial returns). Building on this integration of sustainability factors, it can now transition to a third stage that recognizes both the power of investments to impact social, financial, and environmental systems and the complexity of the times we live in. They call this system-level investing”.

    System-level investors believe that “it is time to support and enhance the health and stability of the social, financial, and environmental systems on which they depend for long-term returns. They preserve and strengthen these fundamental systems while still generating competitive or otherwise acceptable performance.” In this live virtual fireside chat and audience Q&A, Impact Entrepreneur’s Laurie Lane-Zucker welcomes William Burckart to discuss the context, philosophy, and practical implementations of systems-level investing.

    Guest:

    William Burckart is the President of The Investment Integration Project (TIIP), a consulting services and applied research firm that provides advice, thought leadership and a turnkey solution to help investors manage systemic risks and opportunities. He has also contributed to the field through groundbreaking research, including the development of market insights and practical guidance for investors and financial advisors in collaboration with the Money Management Institute (MMI); co-editing the New Frontiers of Philanthropy: A Guide to the New Tools and Actors that Are Reshaping Global Philanthropy and Social Investing (Oxford University Press); and helping to write the “Status of the Social impact investing Market: A Primer” (UK Cabinet Office) that was distributed to policymakers at the inaugural G8-level forum on impact investing. Mr. Burckart is a fellow of the High Meadows Institute and co-author of the book 21st Century Investing: Redirecting Financial Strategies to Drive Systems Change (Berrett-Koehler, 2021).

    Host:

    Laurie Lane-Zucker is Founder and CEO of Impact Entrepreneur, LLC, an impact economy business that hosts the Impact Entrepreneur Network — a large, global network of “systems-minded” entrepreneurs, investors and scholars of social and environmental innovation — and publishes Impact Entrepreneur Magazine. For over 30 years, Laurie has been a “pioneer” (Forbes) and recognized leader in sustainability, social enterprise, and impact investing. Laurie was the founding Executive Director of the international environmental organization, Orion Society, which publishes the celebrated Orion Magazine, as well as the founder of a global sustainability think-tank, the Triad Institute, and Hotfrog, a Founding B Corporation, GIIRS Pioneer Company, and the first company ever to complete an equity transaction on an impact investment exchange. Laurie is the bestselling and multiple award-winning publisher and editor of books and magazines on sustainability and social impact, and the author of numerous articles on entrepreneurship and impact investing.

    Time: 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM

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