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Paul Polman, CEO, Unilever: Winning with Purpose – A message to members of Business Fights Poverty
Business has been a powerful force in improving the lives of millions of people on our planet – whether through product and service innovation, job creation or new opportunities for suppliers and distributors. Yet, I believe business can do so much more.
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- Environment
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U.C. Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley Lab Part of White House Poverty Push
Both the University of California, Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory above it on the hill are part of a public-private push to fight poverty around the world.
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- Environment, Health Care
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Empowering the Haitian People
Sustain Haiti is a non-denominational, independent group of Haitians, development specialists, students, social entrepreneurs, and concerned citizens based in Provo, UT. It was created and began sending volunteers and aid to the country of Haiti after a 7.0 earthquake rocked the country in January of 2010.
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- Environment, Impact Assessment
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- Latin America
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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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- renewable energy, research
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Decentralized, Distributed and Disruptive: The New Diseconomies of Scale
Since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, economies of scale have ruled the day, with massive investments in power plants, pipelines, factories, and transmission lines to name a few. But increasingly, the technologies of tomorrow will be decentralized, distributed in character and disruptive to incumbent firms and institutions.
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- Environment, Technology
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Scaling Up Impact Investing In China
Tao Zhang, the Chief Operating Officer of New Ventures, WRI’s center for environmental entrepreneurship with local operations in China and five other high growth markets, says given the need for China to create sustainable economic growth over the decades to come, impact investing has an important role to play and should gain traction there.
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- Environment
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- impact investing
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Waste Ventures Gives India’s Waste Pickers Access to Carbon Markets
Urban India generates 40 million tons of rubbish each year, a figure that is growing by more than two million tons ever year. Just 25 percent of that rubbish is collected by government contractors and there is little recycling; the rest is dumped and left to rot, producing methane, which is 23 times more harmful to us than carbon dioxide. Waste Ventures is a social enterprise aims to build a model in waste management that empowers the was...
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- Environment
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- waste
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A New Direction in South-South Collaboration at the 6th Annual New Ventures India Investor Forum
Last month, New Ventures India held its 6th annual Investor Forum, which showcased 17 environmentally-focused SMEs to investors and business leaders in Mumbai. For the first time, the forum hosted several sessions dedicated to South-South collaboration giving 8 companies from across Asia and Africa the chance to present the case for entering India.
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- Environment