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Report: Managing Negative Impact
How does impact investing actually make a difference? In the face of a global pandemic, widening inequality, racial justice, and the climate crisis, impact investors and corporate social responsibility teams have been leveraging their capital to tackle some of our biggest problems.
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- Investing
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- Global
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Development Bank Accused of Lending Millions to Companies Allegedly Linked to Forced Labor in Xinjiang
New research suggests the IFC, which operates under the World Bank Group, has been providing hundreds of millions of dollars in loans to companies that may be relying on forced labor from Uyghur and other ethnic minority groups in China's western Xinjiang region.
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- Investing
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- Asia Pacific
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After Green Bonds Come Orange Bonds: IIX Launches Coalition to Develop First Gender-Lens ‘Asset Class’
Singapore-based Impact Investment Exchange (IIX), the creator of the $150m Women's Livelihood Bonds, has launched the Orange Bond Initiative, a global coalition to create what they call the world’s first gender-lens investing asset class.
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- Investing
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- Asia Pacific
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Press Release: DFC Approves 11 Values-Based Investments Totaling Nearly $364 Million to Address Climate Change, Promote Gender Equity, and Improve Healthcare throughout the Developing World
The U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) Board of Directors has approved $245 million in investments this quarter that address the climate crisis through innovation and climate-smart urban infrastructure and elevate businesses with loans and professional business management practices throughout Africa.
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- Investing
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Actis Energy 5 secures $1.2 Billion Impact-Linked Financing
Actis has secured an impact-linked revolving subscription credit facility for its latest energy fund, Actis Energy 5.
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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How Did ESG Funds Wind Up Investing in Putin’s Russia?
An investing movement that promotes itself as a protector of people and the planet has somehow found itself providing capital to the autocratic regime behind Europe’s worst military conflict since World War II.
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- Investing
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- Europe & Eurasia
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- ESG, impact investing
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Analysis: Fixing the S in ESG
Is the planet really more important than the people? According to CNBC, most money managers who use ESG factors in their investment analysis have focused on the E, or climate change, as their leading criteria for their decisions. But what about the S, or social dimension of corporate impact?
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- Investing
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- Global
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Press Release: VALOREO Announces $80 Million Series B Investment Led by L Catterton
The Company will use the capital to accelerate its acquisitions of outstanding LATAM e-commerce brands, enhance its unique technology platform, drive geographic expansion, and accelerate organic growth of its existing brand portfolio.
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- Investing, Technology
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- Latin America
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