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Top Companies Say They’re Working to Help the Environment. Now the CEO of Food Giant Danone Is Funding a Un-Backed Tool That Will Keep Them Accountable.
It has partnered with the United Nations and a team of researchers to develop a tool that allows companies to set up customized plans for meeting the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. Danone CEO Emmanuel Faber is among the funders.
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- Environment
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Trump Backlash Creates Positive Effect on Socially Responsible Investing
The rise of climate skeptic Donald Trump to the U.S. presidency ironically has resulted in a rapid increase in interest and adoption of impact investing and other types of values-based investing.
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- Investing
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- North America
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Viewpoint: Can Digitalisation Save Us?
On the research side, sustainability scholars and practitioners have largely ignored digital upheavals. And pioneers of digitalisation have shown little interest in the most pressing global problems. This must change.
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- Technology
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Technology Eases Farming ‘Drudgery’ and Risk as Climate Threats Grow
As climate change makes farming far tougher and more young people reject it as a career, technological innovations to make the work more secure and appealing can help, agricultural specialists told the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship in Oxford this week.
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- Agriculture, Environment, Technology
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From Critic to Cheerleader — David Malpass’ First Week at the World Bank
Addressing staff — and then later members of the press — Malpass appeared at pains to show he has little appetite for the kind of organizational shake-up former president Jim Kim undertook early in his first term. Instead, Malpass littered his remarks with references to the bank’s “twin goals” and liberally praised staff and his leadership team.
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- Finance
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Press release: Aligned Intermediary awarded grant to support Climate Finance Partnership
The consortium has jointly committed to develop a flagship blended private infrastructure equity fund for climate infrastructure projects and companies in emerging markets. The fund aims to be one of the biggest blended vehicles to-date targeting climate-related investments in developing countries.
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- Investing
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Development-bank climate funds seek new dollars, as competition heats up
The $8.3-billion Climate Investment Funds (CIF), currently the world’s largest multilateral climate financing instrument, help developing states pursue low-carbon development that protects them better from wilder weather and rising seas.
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- Environment, Finance, Investing
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Major New UN Report Calls for Overhaul of Global Financial System
The report is a joint product of the Inter-agency Task Force on Financing for Development, which is comprised of more than 60 United Nations Agencies and international organizations.