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Press Release: Fiera Capital Invests in World Bank Sustainable Development Bond
This is the latest example of the World Bank's engagement with investors around specific development challenges and the Sustainable Development Goals ("SDGs"). Through this engagement, the World Bank and Fiera Capital are raising awareness for SDG 6, Clean Water and Sanitation, and SDG 14, Life Below Water.
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- Environment, Investing, WASH
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- impact investing, SDGs
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Mainstreaming Impact Finance: Major Momentum and Gaps in the Transformation of the Financial Industry
There are exciting signs of a new level of mainstream corporate interest in sustainable business and finance. But despite the significant progress made in the sector since the 1970s, challenges remain – from lack of transparency in impact measurement, to lack of clarity about what impact even means. AlphaMundi founder Tim Radjy explores why we need to transform the rules of business and shift our systems to sustainable alternatives – and how impact finance can help make that happen.
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- Investing
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Press Release: Mary Kay, in Collaboration With UN Agencies, Launches Women’s Entrepreneurship Accelerator
The Accelerator will offer a guided digital curriculum supplemented by on-the-ground training and mentorship. In addition, it will serve as an advocacy platform to eliminate entrepreneurial roadblocks for women, ranging from digital literacy to legal reform—enabling women to fully participate in the growth of their local and national economies.
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- Uncategorized
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- accelerators, gender equality, SDGs
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Report: Solar Boosting Economic Prospects for Rural East Africans
New report from GOGLA, the global association for the off-grid solar energy industry, shows an overwhelming majority (94%) of people living with off-grid solar home systems reporting improvements to their quality of life
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- Energy
- Region
- Sub-Saharan Africa
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‘Frontier Finance’ Is Scaling up to Achieve United Nations Goals
New report on impact investment shows that big opportunities exist to make money and achieve global development targets.
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- Investing
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Press Release: UNDP Launches Standards to Guide Private Sector in Achieving SDGs
The UNDP Practice Standards for Private Equity provide practical guideposts that make it easier for the private sector to operationalize the SDGs and shorten the runway from interest in to adoption of good impact practice.
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- global development, SDGs
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UBS Invests $225M in KKR Global Impact
The UBS fund-raising, from its global private client base, nudges the global wealth management firm closer to a commitment to raise US$5 billion within five years to address the United Nations’ sustainable development goals.
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- Investing
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Viewpoint: The Landscape and Challenges of Impact Investments in India
In India, impact investors are committed to solving development problems, given the sheer size of populations in need but there is also a strong financial motivation to invest in ideas that serve dual bottom-lines.
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- Investing
- Region
- South Asia
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- impact investing, SDGs
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