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Social Innovation Needs Data, This Free Platform Provides It
New social innovations are exciting, but there’s also great value in scaling existing solutions that show promise. There’s just one problem with this approach, says Sweta Govani: The information about these innovations is incomplete, complicated and fragmented, making it hard to determine which ones deserve support. She discusses a new solution called Global Innovation Exchange, a free, data-driven technology platform that gives funders, social entrepreneurs and others easy access to high-quality, up-to-date information about existing global development innovations.
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Viewpoint: My problem with ‘emerging markets’
The terms "emerging markets," "developing nations" and the antiquated "Third World" have always rubbed me the wrong way and not just because I grew up in Mumbai, live in Singapore and do business across Southeast Asia. These terms bother me because they prevent people from seeing how dramatically the world has changed, especially over the last decade.
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Electrifying Transportation: Can This Innovative Financing Model Make Electric Buses a Global Reality?
Electrifying transportation at scale is critical to fighting climate change and urban pollution. And with their affordable battery costs and lower fuel and maintenance expenses, transit buses present an excellent business case for electrification. So what is preventing the rapid deployment of electric buses worldwide? Clean Energy Works founder Holmes Hummel discusses the main barrier to adoption – and an innovative financing solution that could turn things around.
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- Energy, Environment, Investing, Transportation
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New U.S. Impact Investing Platform’s First Issuer Has Something For Everyone
“We’ve always been focused on how do we make impact investing accessible to Wall Street and Main Street,” says Adam Spence, CEO of SVX Canada. Relaunched about a year ago, that platform connects accredited and non-accredited impact investors with social ventures in Canada.
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Robo-advisor Nutmeg launches socially responsible investment portfolios
Nutmeg is the latest robo-advice investment firm to join the growing socially responsible investing movement by launching a new portfolio range.
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Signs That Institutional Investors May Be Reorienting Towards Sustainable Investing
For a long time entrepreneurs, investors and advocates of sustainable investing have spoken longingly about the $2 trillion of institutional investor dollars that have been reputed to be sitting skeptically on the sidelines, teasing everyone with the prospect of finally putting their sizeable investment muscle to work to scale the sector.
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China’s Impact Investment? That’s Mainly a Project for Foreign Investors
Companies may view reporting as a compliance exercise rather than a meaningful part of their strategic and risk-management thinking. They may focus only on good news. Or they may simply misunderstand what information investors want, a point underscored in several presentations in the Chinese capital.
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OPIC commits $50 million to global partnerships’ impact-first development fund
Many of the most inclusive and impactful solutions to poverty are fully sustainable, but not highly profitable. This fund will focus on delivering highly inclusive and highly impactful products and services that commercial markets fail to support.
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