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Opinion: If The US Is Serious About Climate Change, USAID Should Be Too
USAID, by failing to include a commitment to carbon neutrality in its programming, has missed an opportunity to seize the moment and mirror the Biden administration’s commitment to addressing the climate crisis.
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- Environment, Impact Assessment
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- Global
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Analysis: Earth Day 2022: Questionable Momentum With A Side Order Of Panic
Just a few examples from the energy sector show the good momentum toward environmental sustainability.
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- Education, Energy, Environment, Impact Assessment
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- Global
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- climate change, recycling
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72 Microfinance Institutions Join Inaugural Microfinance Index
Impact performance measurement of microfinance institutions in 41 countries will launch in Q2 2022 with support from sector leaders.
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- Finance, Impact Assessment
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- Global
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Analysis: Environmental Problems Caused by Mining
Is mining this causing us to dig ourselves a growing hole of environmental issues? We examine the biggest environmental problems caused by mining.
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- Environment, Impact Assessment
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- mining, renewable energy
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Expect a Drop in Greenwashing as India Adopts New ESG Reporting Rules
The new SEBI regulations on good governance going into effect tomorrow will require the top 1000 companies by market cap size to include a mandatory Business Responsibility and Sustainability Report (BRSR) in their annual reports filed with stock exchanges.
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- Environment, Impact Assessment, Investing
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- Asia Pacific
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Press Release: Boards for All? The 2022 Global Health 50/50 Report Explores Who Governs Global Health
Gender and geographic diversity are severely lacking in the boards of major organisations active in global health, a newly-released study finds.
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- Health Care, Impact Assessment
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- Global
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- failure, gender equality
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Supporting Financial Health Startups: Four Lessons for Impact Investors, Foundations and Governments
Over the past few years, Village Capital has run Finance Forward, a global coalition to support early-stage entrepreneurs building tech-enabled solutions around financial health. Village Capital CEO Allie Burns shares highlights from a new report that analyzed data from the 1,000+ companies that applied to the program around the world. The report paints a picture of the global state of financial health startups, and offers lessons for impact investors, foundations and government leaders who hope to grow the ecosystem for financial health innovation.
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- Finance, Impact Assessment, Investing, Technology
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A Gender-Smart Renewable Energy Transition: Why Climate Change Solutions Can’t Overlook Inequality
The Sustainable Development Goals recognize gender equality (SDG 5) and affordable and clean energy (SDG 7) as imminent priorities. Yet Rachel Murphy at Deetken Impact argues that women have been left out of the clean energy conversation – and that the world is running out of time to meaningfully change course. She explains why no single SDG can be achieved without the integration of both a gender and climate perspective, and explores how can the energy industry can move toward greater inclusion and empowerment of women.
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- Energy, Environment, Impact Assessment