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Strengthening the ‘Environment’ Component of ESG: How Financial Institutions Can Bring Green Financing into the Mainstream in India

James Militzer

The latest Fair Finance India Policy Assessment 2020 noted this discrepancy, highlighting that assessed banks in India have scored highest on the themes of financial inclusion, followed by corruption and transparency and accountability, whereas they have scored very poorly on the environment theme, which includes climate change and nature.

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Meet the women warrior accountants pushing the envelope on climate action

Corporate Knights

In the fourth year of her accounting degree at McGill University, Sarah Keyes walked into the classroom of a mandatory credit course called The Social Context of Business. When she walked out that day in 2009, she wasn’t sure she still wanted to be an accountant. Recent reports from the U.K.’s

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Gallup Poll on Honesty & Ethics in the Professions

Steven Mintz

Since 2009, Congress has ranked at or near the bottom of the list, usually tied with other poorly viewed professions like car salespeople and -- when they have been included -- lobbyists, telemarketers, HMO managers, stockbrokers and advertising practitioners. What’s Up with Congress? Lots of people lost lots of money during these times.

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Solar Sister is addressing gender equity, energy poverty, and climate change

Cisco CSR

Founded in 2009, Solar Sister is a nonprofit recipient of Cisco’s social impact grants that recruits, trains, mentors, and supports women entrepreneurs – Solar Sister Entrepreneurs (SSEs) – and supplies them with durable, affordable energy products. Katherine Lucey, founder and CEO of Solar Sister.

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25 badass women shaping climate action in 2021

GreenBiz

The newly anointed group sustainability chief for one of Europe’s largest banks, HSBC — a role she will assume in July — London-based Celine Herweijer is a familiar feature in the continent’s corporate climate movement. Rose Stuckey Kirk, Senior Vice President, Chief Corporate Social Responsibility Officer, Verizon.