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Analysis: ESG Investing Isn’t Designed to Save the Planet
While ESG investing might be a way to measure risks to corporate cash flows, it is no way to advance planetary sustainability.
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- Investing
- Region
- Global
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- climate change, ESG, governance
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Analysis: Steps for SMEs to Measure and Report Sustainability and Impact
Examining the feasibility of whether SMEs, more limited in terms of human resources and available finances, can effectively report on the sustainability and impact of their operations.
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- Environment
- Region
- Global
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- business development, ESG
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Analysis: ESG Reports Aren’t a Replacement for Real Sustainability
A predictable backlash against ESG investing has arrived, with right-wing politicians attacking ESG investors for promoting what they see as a “woke” agenda.
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- Environment, Investing
- Region
- Global
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Emerging EU ESG Requirements: Transatlantic Implications for Multinational Companies
Recent and forthcoming regulatory developments will have significant implications not just for EU-based companies but for those beyond, as well.
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- Impact Assessment
- Region
- Global
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- climate change, ESG, governance
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A Portfolio Approach to ESG and CSR: Why Supporting Social Entrepreneurship Accelerators Makes Sense for Corporate Funders
Many corporations seek to support social enterprises as a way to meet their environmental, social and governance (ESG) or corporate social responsibility (CSR) goals. But as Brigit Helms at Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship explains, corporations often find it challenging to identify and engage with these enterprises one at a time, and instead prefer to work with social enterprise accelerators. She shares insights from a recent Miller Center white paper that attempts to quantify the benefits corporate partners can obtain from supporting these accelerators.
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- Investing, Social Enterprise
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IDB Boosts Latin America ESG Bond Campaign With $1 Billion Push
Inter-American Investment Corporation is helping companies in Latin America and the Caribbean bring about $1 billion of environmental, social and governance bonds as sustainable financing gains traction in the regions.
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- Investing
- Region
- Latin America
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Sustainable Investing to Surge to $125 Billion in India by 2026: Benori Knowledge Report
The factors encouraging sustainable investment ventures in the country are consumer demand for socially responsible brand behaviour, government policies and the massive growth of cleantech and green initiatives.
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- Investing
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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- ESG, impact investing
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Press Release: Vice President Harris Announces More Than $1.9 Billion in New Private Sector Commitments as Part of Call to Action for Northern Central America
The Vice President, U.S. Department of State, and the Partnership for Central America (PCA), come together to announce private sector commitments now total more than $3.2 billion
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- Investing, Telecommunications
- Region
- Latin America
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