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Bringing Impact Data Out of the Dark: Why Impact Investors Need Harmonized Reporting Platforms to Reach Their Goals
Impact reporting today is inconsistent, unverified and locked up in information silos, with multiple, competing reporting platforms and methodologies. As Adam S. Bendell of Toniic explains, this makes it difficult for impact investors to compare and maximize the positive net impact of their investments. The key to solving this dilemma, he says, is to develop an interoperable ecosystem for reporting impact data. He shares four ways the sector could move toward this goal, building a system in which investors can easily compare impact performance across their portfolios.
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- Impact Assessment, Investing
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21st Century Investing: Why Today’s Global Challenges Call for a System-Level Approach to Impact
From climate change and embedded social inequities to global pandemics, the scope and scale of the risks facing our world have increased. But according to William Burckart and Steve Lydenberg at The Investment Integration Project, these overlapping crises are serving as wake-up calls to many investors, leading them to take a more holistic approach to today's complex challenges. They describe this growing class of “system-level investors,” and how they're going beyond both conventional and sustainable investing to address global problems on a deep, systemic level.
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- Investing
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- corporations, ESG, impact investing
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Press Release: DFC Announces First-Ever Chief Climate Officer and Deputy to Lead Agency Efforts to Tackle the Climate Crisis
New Chief Climate Officer, Deputy Chief Climate Officer will focus agency efforts on climate-focused investments
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- Energy, Environment
- Region
- Global
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Congo: REDD+ to Reduce CO2 Emissions and Preserve Forests
Congo has just signed an agreement with the World Bank's Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF).
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- Environment, Investing
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Press Release: The Trade Hub Launches a Virtual DealRoom Connecting Investors to Fast-Growing Impact Businesses
The West Africa Trade & Investment Hub (Trade Hub) has unveiled a Virtual DealRoom giving global investors information and access to the Trade Hub’s growing pipeline of impact business opportunities.
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- Investing
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Climate-Positive Agriculture: How Investors Can Support Smallholder Farmers – While Also Regenerating the Environment
Global agricultural demand is expected to increase by about 50% from 2013 to 2050, as the world's population is projected to reach nearly 10 billion. Smallholder farmers in Africa and Latin America are well-positioned to meet this growing need – but expanding their current unsustainable farming practices could cause massive climate and environmental consequences. Bianca Samson, Flavia Howard and Kusi Hornberger at Dalberg share how investing in regenerative, climate-smart agriculture can boost food security and benefit smallholders, investors and the environment.
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- Agriculture, Environment, Investing
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Future Returns: Bain Capital Double Impact’s Approach to the Market
Bain Capital Double Impact closed a second impact-investing fund after raising US$800 million last fall, and found the experience to be a bit different than the first time around.
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- Investing
- Region
- North America
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- ESG, impact investing
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Big Brands Join $1 Billion Forest Conservation Push for Southeast Asia
Major household brands and palm-oil buyers Nestle and PepsiCo have backed a scheme that aims to invest $1 billion in forest conservation across Southeast Asia over 25 years.
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- Agriculture, Environment, Investing
- Region
- South Asia
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