Finance & Investment
The latest in the spheres of socially responsible investing, impact investing, and other ways investors and shareholders are asserting their desire for ethical investment options.
Trending: Virgin, Aspiration Incentivize Sustainable Spending
Virgin Money’s sustainability-linked loans will reduce finance costs for businesses that proactively help the transition to a more sustainable economy; and Aspiration’s new credit card will enable consumers to work toward a ‘zero’ carbon footprint.
Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is with This Socially Impactful Money Move
We’re calling on companies across the country to deposit $1M of their banked dollars today into credit unions serving low-income communities. Thanks to our partnership with Inclusiv, this is one smart, socially-conscious, seamless money move.
5 Ways Retailers Are Winning by Aligning Financial Performance, Sustainability
Many retail and food giants are proving that businesses can grow, improve margins and bolster competitive advantage through examination of waste streams and investing in creative solutions — even during a pandemic.
Trending: Nike, Chipotle Tie Exec Compensation to Diversity, Sustainability Metrics
Cross-Posted from Walking the Talk. In the past week, both Nike and Chipotle announced new sets of environmental and social goals — and systems with which their executives’ compensation will be tied to achieving them.
Klarna: Can ‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ Be Used for Good?
It is easy for people with money to write off services such as these for those who don’t have it, but there is a massive opportunity for Klarna to rewrite the rules of ’buy now, pay later’ and create genuinely positive impacts.
Crowdsourced Impact Investing Mobilizes Regeneration Effort in Portugal
GoParity — an innovative investment platform that finances sustainable projects through crowdlending — has enabled the villagers of fire-ravaged Belver, Portugal to expedite access to much-needed recovery funds and quickly begin reforesting.
Trending: AB InBev, Carlyle Ante Up on ESG Commitments
Two first-of-their-kind revolving credit facilities support Carlyle’s goal of 30% diverse board directors across its portfolio companies and progress toward four of AB InBev’s 2025 sustainability goals, respectively.
Dole’s ‘Sunshine for All’ Fund Strives to Close Gaps on Good Nutrition
The $2M annual fund will aim to address gaps of food affordability and waste, as well as accessibility and acceptability, around the world. Dole is seeking strategic partners to help develop solutions.
Corporations Can Support BIPOC Communities by Putting Their Money to Work
It is critical to understand and address the intersectional links between access to affordable housing, education, job creation and improved public health; and we look forward to continuing our work with organizations that target their dollars towards these needs within the communities they seek to serve.
Landmark Review Calls for Nature to Be at the Center of Economic Decision-Making
The UK Government commissioned an independent, global Review on the Economics of Biodiversity in Spring 2019. The report urges policymakers to start valuing ecosystems and says GDP encourages unsustainable growth.
Trending: Welcome to the Age of Stakeholder Capitalism
Two global coalitions have committed to make good on their companies’ DEI commitments; and adhere to a new set of Stakeholder Capitalism Metrics, respectively. Larry Fink’s annual CEO letter expounds on the need for both.
Trending: Brands, Investors Show They’re Banking on Net-Zero Transition
As 2020 finally winds down; a number of investor, brand and banking initiatives shows that this year’s many challenges haven’t derailed major global efforts to achieve, at minimum, a net-zero future.
Meeting of the Minds: 3 Reasons to Align Corporate Sustainability and Finance Teams
Cross-Posted from Organizational Change. Last month, PMI moved its global sustainability team under the leadership of CFO Emmanuel Babeau. It may be one of the first global companies to make this prescient move; but here are three reasons why we believe this trend is only just beginning.
Global Banks Launch Industry Standard for Measuring, Reporting Financed Emissions
The industry-led Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials' new methodology enables banks to measure and disclose the emissions associated with their financed activities.
6 Months Into the Pandemic, ‘Greener’ Jobs Are Safer, Higher Paid, More Resilient
Cross-Posted from The Next Economy. The monthly Green Jobs Report shows that “greener” enterprises align with more resilient jobs, higher pay for workers, fewer job losses, and the potential for better overall company and investor portfolio performance.
Did Lack of Transparency Invalidate Asia’s First Corporate Sustainability Bond?
Cross-Posted from Supply Chain. The devil's in the details: Allegations of deforestation in Michelin’s natural rubber supply chain highlight the need for greater transparency in ‘green’ financing.
Mastercard Partners to Digitally Empower Small Businesses in Latin America
Bancolombia, Banco Galicia, Citibanamex and Mercado Libre are part of the Partnership, committed to accelerate business recovery and inclusive growth efforts in the region.
Hey, Milton … Here We Are, After 50 Years of Friedmanomics
What is the responsibility of business? Fifty years on, it’s clear there’s more to the answer than you thought.
Facing Finance's Race Problem: How a Diverse Financial System Can Narrow Inequality
When everyone involved in financial product development looks the same — either on paper, or by the color of their skin — then, what we ultimately create often fuels inequality.
Oatly’s Big Gaffe: Straying from Its Brand Purpose
Cross-Posted from Marketing and Comms. If Oatly had taken Blackstone’s money, put it on a billboard, and made it known to all of its customers that its next mission was to change the world of ‘big bad investment’ from the inside out, it would’ve remained true to its brand story.
