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Viewpoint: The value of nature in smart development
Building smart requires governments and businesses to recognise nature’s role in spurring economic growth and ensuring ecological and human health, writes Maxwell Gomera.
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- Environment
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Unilever picks insider as new CEO
The appointment of Mr. Jope, a Unilever lifer who currently heads its beauty and personal-care division, comes amid the company's push under Mr. Polman to bolster that higher-margin business and pivot away from slower-growing food.
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Press release: Sistema.bio attracts funding from Hivos-Triodos Fund
Hivos-Triodos Fund joins a group world-class impact and venture capital investors that support Sistema.bio’s mission to bring technology, training and financing to the smallholder farmers around the world.
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- Agriculture, Energy, Investing
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Paul Polman, a ‘Crucial Voice’ for Corporate Responsibility, Steps Down as Unilever C.E.O.
When Mr. Polman first took over at Unilever, financial analysts were skeptical of his sustainability efforts. But in recent years, Unilever’s stock price has shot up, more than doubling during his tenure.
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Inexpensive Impact: The Case for Frugal Innovations
Over 4 billion people around the world lack necessities like food, water, energy, health care and housing. This represents not only a major social challenge but a major market, as low-income consumers have an annual purchasing capacity of US $5 trillion. Rajat Chabba and Sheena Raikundalia at Intellecap explore how entrepreneurs are developing innovative, frugal products to meet these customers’ needs – and why an ecosystem approach is needed to help them scale their solutions.
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- Entrepreneurship, Technology
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How SDG business strategies are already generating $233bn in revenue
According to the Business & Sustainable Development Commission, achieving the UN's 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) could open up $12tr of market opportunities in food and agriculture, cities, energy and materials, and health and well-being alone, creating 380 million new jobs by 2030 in the process.
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Running Out of Gas: Can This Innovative Solar and Battery Electric Generator Fight Energy Poverty – And Climate Change?
The electric generator market is predicted to grow to US $27 billion by 2023. But as the industry grows, so too will the need for fuel to power it – a major challenge in a world struggling to reduce carbon emissions and climate change. Portable Electric believes it has found a solution: a portable generator that can be powered by solar and wind to provide completely renewable, mobile energy – at three times the efficiency of traditional generators. The company's founder, Mark Rabin discusses the technology, and its uses in everything from micro-grids to disaster relief.
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- Energy, Technology
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Press release: ImpactAssets Expands Executive Leadership Team
Margret Trilli brings strategic and executive leadership to extend organizational excellence and drive continued growth toward a multi-billion-dollar impact investing platform; founder Tim Freundlich promoted to Chief Executive Officer to lead business innovation and field-building; Gabe DiClerico named CFO to elevate finance administration capability.
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- Investing
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