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Asian Development Bank Investing $25 Million in Private Equity Fund to Grow Middle-Market Companies in Southeast Asia
The multilateral lender signed a $25 million equity investment in the private equity fund managed by Singapore-headquartered investment firm Exacta.
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- Education, Finance, Health Care, Investing
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- South Asia
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Analysis: Activist Investors and NGOs Leaving Regulators in Their Wake in the U.K.
The two claims reflect a wider trend of activist litigations brought by NGOs (non-governmental organisations) and investors in the United Kingdom and overseas in bids to move the dial closer toward the target of net zero, even when governments and regulators appear to lack the same resolve.” (That may be a longer blurb than usual, but I think it’s warranted in this case
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- Environment, Investing
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- Global
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- climate change, corporations, ESG, NGOs
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Analysis: ESG Data Can Keep Businesses Accountable, but Only if It Can Be Trusted
ESG data will be vital in painting a picture of how and where industries are succeeding – or failing – in the battle to reach net zero.
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- Investing, Technology
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- data, ESG, greenwashing
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New Tech Partnership to Boost Seaweed Farming in Southeast Asia
Oceanfarmr and Coast 4C – a social enterprise focused on regenerative seaweed farming – have announced a collaboration to develop mobile technologies to help improve the livelihoods of small-scale seaweed producers in Southeast Asia.
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- Social Enterprise, Technology
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- South Asia
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Workiva Partners With Code.org To Narrow the Digital Divide and Expand Access to Computer Science Education
Workiva Inc., the company powering transparent reporting for a better world, announced today it has kicked off a global, multi-year partnership with Code.org.
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- Education, Technology, Telecommunications
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- Global
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- data, digital inclusion, ESG, human rights, nonprofits
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Adani Firms Dropped From UN-Backed List Of Green Firms In Latest Blow
Three of Adani Group’s publicly traded companies have been removed from an influential list of companies committed to acting against climate change.
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- Environment, Investing
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- Asia Pacific
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- climate change, ESG, failure
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HOMA2U Raises $875K in Pre-series a Funding to Fuel Regional Expansion
HOMA2U plans to use the funds to accelerate its regional expansion, develop new products, and expand its market capitalisation value.
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- Investing
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- South Asia
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- accelerators, ESG, startups
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A Blueprint for Closing the SDG Financing Gap: How to Raise $290 Billion in 12 Months to Tackle the World’s Biggest Problems
As of 2020, the annual SDG financing gap for developing countries stood at $4.2 trillion — up from $2.5 trillion pre-pandemic. And according to Chris Clubb at Convergence Blended Finance, though private capital is crucial to closing this gap, the $240 billion in annual public development finance only mobilizes around $44 billion in private investment, which covers just 1% of these countries' climate and SDG investment needs. He explores the core elements of Convergence's Action Plan for Climate and SDG Investment Mobilization, which shows how a small amount of public and philanthropic funding can catalyze private investment to more than double total climate and SDG financing in developing economies.
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- Environment, Investing