Finance & Investment
The growing number of funds, tools, mechanisms and markets helping organizations, investors and the public put their money where their mouth is to drive sustainable change
3 Ways to Tailor Your Programs to Invest in Girls
Here, Shanna Marzilli — President & CEO of Plan International USA — outlines three key areas that every skills-training program should incorporate to build a better, more equal, future working world. ... View More
Major Companies, Investors Still Blind to Their Role in Deforestation
Global Canopy’s 10th annual Forest 500 report reveals that, despite some pockets of progress, voluntary private sector action has failed to generate meaningful progress on commodity-driven deforestation. ... View More
First-of-its-Kind Fund Aims to Catalyze Equitable Access to Reuse and Refill Solutions
The $1M fund aims to finance deployment of reuse and refill infrastructure — particularly in FMCG, food service and delivery, grocery, e-commerce and retail — to combat global plastic pollution. ... View More
Social-Impact Investing: 5 Lessons from a Successful First Venture
How T. Rowe Price brought capital to under-resourced communities and ensured it had the desired impacts, while inspiring pride and creativity among corporate associates. ... View More
$7M: How the Cost of a Super Bowl Ad Could Transform Lives
We challenge all of these advertisers to skim the nonprofits below and think about diverting even $1M of their game-time spend to instead address urgent social issues. ... View More
Apparel Brands Urged to Understand, Disclose Water Risks
A new report from Planet Tracker analyzed nearly 4K filings from 29 major apparel brands and found them worryingly dry. ... View More
The Window of Vitality: How Great Businesses Balance Efficiency, Resilience
Mired in short-termism, many investors and company bonus structures incentivize optimizing for cost and efficiency. The lesson from nature: Successful organizations stay within their own window of vitality by understanding and balancing the tension b... View More
Latin Americans Are Embracing Plant-Based Foods — a Growing Opportunity for Investment
Food investors and entrepreneurs would do well to mark the major focus on plant-based protein innovation happening for our neighbors to the South. ... View More
First Roadmap for Financiers Implementing a ‘Just Transition’ Launched at COP28
The new guidance will support the global financial sector in embedding just-transition practices in their operations to ensure a climate transition that leaves no one behind. ... View More
New Expedia Fund Supports Nonprofits Removing Barriers to Travel
In its first year, the Made to Travel™ Fund has awarded more than $1.5M in grants to a diverse set of organizations working with underserved or underrepresented travelers. ... View More
New Carbon Accounting Alliance Seeks Industry Standardization, Regulation to Support Net-Zero Transition
The launch includes a call to action for organizations worldwide to use the tools of carbon accounting to drive transition plans and direct emission reductions. ... View More
How to Ensure Better Offsets and Save the Carbon Market
Newer players Climate Vault and Covalent are banking on their unique approaches — along with the dreaded “R” word, regulation — to salvage the credibility and efficacy of carbon markets. ... View More
California Climate-Disclosure Laws Will Put the Spotlight on Governance
Let’s use the momentum behind the new mandates to rethink the corporate structures that hold back environmental and social progress. ... View More
Supporting Farmers in Landlocked Countries to Enter the Nutraceuticals Market
Overcoming commodity dependence is a complex challenge. Here are steps that brands, impact investors and governments can take to help smallholder farmers in LLDCs benefit from the nutraceuticals market. ... View More
4 Keys to Accurately Accounting for Your Company’s Impacts on Nature
This week at SB’23 San Diego, Context Nature shared guiding principles with which business can bridge nature and finance strategies; and three companies shared lessons learned from enacting their own biodiversity commitments. ... View More
Growing a Better World Together: Why I Joined the Financial Sector
Throughout my career, I learned that climate risk equals financial risk and the financial sector has a responsibility to help clients transition to more sustainable practices for the benefit of people, planet and profit. Enter Rabobank. ... View More
New Report Urges Insurance Companies to Stop Underwriting Climate Change
‘Underwriting Our Planet’ finds that rather than addressing climate change and biodiversity loss, many economic activities underwritten by insurance companies actually fuel the twin crises. ... View More
Beyond ‘Carbon Neutral:’ Refining Corporate Carbon-Credit Claims
With the explosive growth of the voluntary carbon market came concerns around carbon-reduction claims lacking clarity or being misleading. Several refined claims frameworks have emerged to bridge these gaps. ... View More
L’Oréal Launches €15M Climate Emergency Fund
The new endowment fund will reach vulnerable communities facing greatest disaster risk through partnerships with both local disaster-relief organizations and international NGOs. ... View More
Study Shows Stronger ROI for Companies with High ESG Ratings
Kroll analyzed data on over 13K companies across industries and found that those with better ESG ratings outperformed their peers with lower ratings; globally, ESG leaders had annual returns of 12.9% vs 8.6% for laggards. ... View More
