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Powering Up: WBCSD Details Business Victories for Clean Energy Access
Addressing the lack of access to clean, reliable and affordable energy services for billions of people is one of the world’s most critical development challenges. The new World Business Council for Sustainable Development Access to Energy initiative highlights business solutions to enable energy access for all and demonstrates clearly how business is already expanding access to clean, reliable and affordable energy services for poor customers.
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- Education, Energy, Environment
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It’s Time for Sustainable Development
Bill Clinton was set to enter the White House, the European Union was born and China had its first taste of a double cheeseburger with fries when McDonalds opened its doors in Beijing. That was 1992. A lot can happen in 20 years. In June 2012, two decades after the groundbreaking Earth summit, which put climate change and biological diversity on the global political agenda, attention will turn once again to Rio de Janeiro for the UN conference on sustainable development, or ...
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Growing Up Fast, What the Dalberg Survey Tells Us About Successful Social Entrepreneurs
Want to find out what made the good enterprises great - and not just in anecdotal form? Dalberg Global Development Advisors clearly thought so. Working with Harvard, the consulting firm polled more than 60 social entreprenurs to find out how they lept the hurdles that every venture faces. Check out the survey and a replay of the live webinar.
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- Education, Social Enterprise
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- impact investing, research, scale
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Good News: IRIS Report Shows Many Impact Investing Recipients Are Profitable; But More Study Needed
The first Impact Reporting and Investment Standards (IRIS) performance data report collected data from nearly 2,400 mission-driven organizations, with 70% of responding microfinance institutions and 63% of portfolio organizations reporting profits. As importantly, the report adds to data-driven market intelligence for the impact investing industry.
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The G20 Challenge Applying Proven Business Models to the BoP
Last week, the doors swung wide for full applications to the G20 Challenge on Inclusive Business Innovation. The Challenge doesn’t offer prize money to winners - rather its value is in opening the doors of opportunity for BoP-focused enterprises with proven models.
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Four Companies Announce New Ventures to Promote Clean Energy
New York, Durban, 28 November 2011 -More than 12 million low-income people in Africa, Asia, and Latin America will gain access to clean energy following four companies’ commitments made today to the Business Call to Action , a global leadership initiative that promotes sustainable economic and social development. The companies also expect to create approximately 42,000 environmentally sustai...
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Uruguayan Farmers Tackles Climate Change
The World Bank approved a US$49 million loan to support Uruguayan farmers tackle climate change. In their efforts, farmers are adopting environmentally sustainable practices to improve the resilience of their production systems in response to the effects of climate variability. The program is called the Sustainable Management of Natural Resources and Climate Change. This will benefit 16,000 Uruguayan farmers through co-financing of land projects to improve their production systems, the ...
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The 2012 ‘Doing Business’ Report: A Traveler’s Guide
Access to credit, reliable electricity, reasonable tax codes and other factors key to a business’s long-term success?for better or worse?often lies with a country?s government. The World Bank ranks these factors in its annual Doing Business Report. This year?s survey also provided intriguing insights for developing world entrepreneurs.
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