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Major investor alliance working to clean up greenwash lurking in ESG

Corporate Knights

In response to accusations of greenwashing and growing regulatory scrutiny, a group of high-powered financial networks is working to standardize the often-opaque jargon of the responsible investing industry. In the beginning, most banks and large money management firms didn’t pay much attention. In the U.S.,

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Financing Women- Owned or -Led SMEs for Sustainable Growth: Navigating Capital Supply Side Challenges in Africa

James Militzer

A 2014 study found that investors were over twice as likely to fund the exact same startup if the pitch was delivered to them by a male founder rather than a female founder. For instance, in 2022 KCB Bank Kenya announced the creation of a KShs 250 billion (US $1.65 Take the question of bias. Photo courtesy of UN Women Africa.

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