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Despite Anti-ESG Attacks, New Study Shows Investors See Climate as Critical to Business Performance
Do investors care whether financial services firms take climate-related actions in clean energy opportunities?
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- Environment, Investing
- Region
- Global
- Tags
- climate change, decarbonization, ESG, research
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Bill Gates’ Climate VC Breakthrough Energy Raises $839M, 2024’s Largest in the Sector
Breakthrough has established itself as a leader in climate tech, demonstrating the potential and profitability of early-stage climate investments.
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- Environment, Investing
- Region
- Global
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Brazil Aims to Attract $20 Billion for ESG Projects Using $2 Billion Climate Fund Leverage
Brazil launches a new investment vehicle to boost sustainable projects, aiming to generate $10-20 billion in financing.
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- Environment, Technology
- Region
- Latin America
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Viewpoint: Warren Buffett Pledges $100 Billion for Nothing in Particular
At one point, the Gates Foundation expected to receive the bulk of Buffett's estate, and even put together a plan nicknamed "Project Lincoln" to prepare for the massive bequest.
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- Investing
- Region
- North America
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China Property Crash Is Battering a Niche Pocket of ESG Finance
China’s property downturn is weighing on yet another corner of financial markets: ESG-labeled securitized debt.
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- Investing
- Region
- Asia Pacific
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Transparent Sustainability: A Free Tool Aims to Empower Retail Investors to Align Their Investments with Their Convictions
The growing demand for sustainable investments has brought a greater degree of scrutiny to the industry, as it attempts to address rising concerns about greenwashing. But as Shaan Madhavji and Anna Helena Chaim at Impaakt point out, many investors still have a lack of knowledge about the true impacts of their investments. They explain how Impaakt's free “How Sustainable to Me?” tool provides retail investors with transparent impact data that allows them to align their investments with their values.
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- Environment, Investing
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EIB Global Invests €25 Million in Amethis Fund III to Promote Sustainable Growth of African Businesses
Amethis Fund III will target companies supplying goods and services to low- and middle-income populations in Africa.
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- Investing
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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More Data is Not the Answer: Why We Need to Reset Our Expectations for Impact Measurement and Management
Impact measurement and management (IMM) is gaining momentum. As Julia Mensink at Acumen explains, while the sector was once underfunded and under-emphasized, it is now taken much more seriously — not only by impact investors, but also by mainstream banks, pension funds and corporations. But she argues that this progress has brought with it some challenges, including investors' growing demand for rigorous impact data, regardless of the challenges this data collection and reporting may present to entrepreneurs. She proposes some ways investors can work with social enterprises to shift IMM from a burden to a means to greater impact.
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- Investing, Social Enterprise
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