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Want to fight climate change? Don’t invest in Tesla
“In our view, impact investing needs to begin with companies whose products and services have a notable positive environmental or social impact,” wrote Jessica Alsford, an equity strategist at the investment bank.
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- Environment, Investing
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Doing well by doing good: the multilateral banks respond to climate change
The multilateral development banks (MDBs) were seen as an important channel to support both mitigation and adaptation efforts.
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- Environment
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- climate change
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As warming brings more malaria, Kenya moves treatment closer to home
With just a medical kit and a mobile phone, health volunteers diagnose villagers with malaria in their own homes.
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- Environment, Health Care
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Is it time to rethink humanitarian insurance?
The human and financial costs of climate and other natural disasters are increasing. These disasters disproportionately affect the poorest and most vulnerable populations- who lose much more of their wealth when disaster strikes.
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- Environment
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- climate change, insurance
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What the U.S. can learn from India on climate change and energy access
Indeed, with the United States’ retreat from the Paris climate agreement leaving a void in global leadership, it may be Prime Minister Modi – with his bold renewable energy agenda, “power for all” commitment, and push for widespread adoption of LED light bulbs – who steps up to the plate.
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- Energy, Environment
- Region
- South Asia
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- climate change
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No more business as usual: the corporates stepping up to save the planet
Companies around the world – from small family-run enterprises to Fortune 500 firms – are not only calling for action on climate change but also putting their money where their mouth is.
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- Environment
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- climate change
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Investing with ‘green’ ratings? It’s a gray area
There are no set criteria for who is bad and who is good and so-called ESG ratings vary widely, meaning investors may be less protected than they think, for example, from a scandal over labor practices or board pay.
"We don't have a common vernacular," said Asha Mehta, director of responsible investing at Acadian Asset Management in Boston.- Categories
- Investing
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Climate Change Has Made Heat Waves Much More Deadly, Mainly for the Poor
A study published in Science Advances shows that as average summer temperatures in India rose 0.5 oC from 1960 until 2009, the chance of a heat wave causing more than 100 deaths more than doubled. As the authors write, their work is far from theoretical: heat waves in 2010, 2013, and 2015 each killed thousands of people across the country.
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- Environment
- Region
- South Asia
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- climate change
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