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For Super-Rich, Investing to See Dramatic Changes
Lots of start-up funding. Crowd-sourced investment ideas. Real-time low-cost portfolio monitoring. An emphasis on environmental and social impact.
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- Environment, Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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Myth of Sustainable Investment Performance Sacrifice ‘Finally Withering Away’
Speaking to Blue & Green Tomorrow after the launch of the Pax MSCI International ESG Index fund, Keefe explained that environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors were becoming increasingly relevant to companies’ long-term financial risk and performance.
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- Environment, Impact Assessment
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- impact investing
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Meet the Women Trading Sudan’s First Carbon Credits
Cleaner stoves have saved Sudan over 36,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions and earned the country its first carbon credits.
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- Environment
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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OPINION: How to Close the Health Gap Between Rich and Poor
With aggressively scaled-up health investments, 10 million lives could be saved annually, beginning in 2035.
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- Environment, Health Care
- Region
- North Africa & Near East
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Investing in Africa: the imperative to invest sustainably
There is no one way to do business in Africa. But through exploring both the opportunities and the challenges experienced by companies operating successfully in Africa, a number of key lessons can be unearthed.
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- Environment, Impact Assessment
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Three Recommendations to Foster Development in Africa’s Health Markets
As the CEO of a company that markets portable, power-free medical instrument sterilizers to hospitals and health centers in East Africa, Dr. Bernstein has seen first hand the degree to which people are ready to pay for safe and effective medical care. But at the same time there is a conscious effort to avoid the creation of a completely segmented health system where the quality of care is much higher for those who can afford it from the private sector, and huge portions of the population are unable to participate in the market.
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- Environment, Health Care
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eKutir’s VeggieLite gains Gates Foundation grant
eKutir’s new project VeggieLite is a recipient of Grand Challenges India 2014, supported by the Gates Foundation, USAID and DBT, the Indian government’s anti-poverty scheme.
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- Agriculture, Environment, Health Care
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Predicting Disease Outbreaks in a Changing Climate in Africa
The IPCC report focuses on climate change impacts, adaptation and vulnerability.
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- Environment, Health Care, Technology
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa