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Singapore, Indonesia Lead Growth in Sustainable Investing in Asia
While Asia still lags Europe and the United States in sustainable investing, the market for funds employing such strategies is healthy and expanding rapidly in the region, with Singapore and Indonesia leading the growth.
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- Environment, Impact Assessment
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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- impact investing
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Case Foundation, B Lab Team Up to Make Measuring Impact More Mainstream
The Case Foundation and B Lab recently announced a joint effort to encourage more businesses, especially those that aren’t triple-bottom line enterprises, to consider their social and environmental impact.
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- Environment, Impact Assessment
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Too Global to Fail: The World Bank At the Intersection of National and Global Public Policy
It can be and has been argued that improvements in human welfare achieved over the last few decades have been purchased, at least in part, on credit—that the net gain is less than it seems, perhaps even negative, given the scale of our accumulated liabilities. In part, this is because gains made at the level of households, communities and countries have not been adequately insured against global public ‘bads’—transnational problems whose solution or mitigation generally calls for international cooperation.
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- Environment
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- public policy
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WHO, UNOPS Sign Agreement to Scale-Up Partnership in Africa’s Health
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the UN Office for Project Services (UNOPS) on Sunday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to intensify collaboration on sustainable management of health programs and projects in Africa.
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- Environment, Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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- infrastructure
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The 169 Commandments
Moses brought ten commandments down from Mount Sinai. If only the UN’s proposed list of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were as concise. The SDGs are supposed to set out how to improve the lives of the poor in emerging countries, and how to steer money and government policy towards areas where they can do the most good. But the efforts of the SDG drafting committees are so sprawling and misconceived that the entire enterprise is being set up to fail. That would be not just a wasted opportunity, but also a betrayal of the world’s poorest people.
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- Environment
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Saints Beat Sinners Again for Best Stock Picks
New Morgan Stanley research shows that whatever sustainability is, it seems to be working.
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- Environment
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What Qualifies As CSR and What Does Not?
Trees in your company campus, jobs for people with disabilities and fuel-efficient office cars may be good for the society and the environment. Continue the good work, but none of that counts as corporate social responsibility (CSR) under the law.
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- Environment
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Viewpoint: Not Free Vaccines, Mr. Gates, Just Sustainably-Priced Ones
Advocates working to increase global access to medicines were frustrated by the recent comments made by Bill Gates publicly criticizing Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors without Borders, MSF) for calling for reductions in the prices of new vaccines. In doing so, Mr Gates stands by a system of pricing that requires raising billions of dollars in donor funding every year to support it. We believe that a system dependent on raising massive amounts of money to meet arbitrarily high prices set by the pharmaceutical industry is a failed system and should be acknowledged as such by donors like Mr Gates. Rather, true success in global vaccination requires mechanisms that can rapidly achieve long-term sustainable vaccine pricing.
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- Environment, Health Care
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- vaccines
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