ESG Today

JUNE 22, 2023

By asset class, private equity has dominated ESG fundraising over the long-run, accounting for nearly half of all capital raised since 2014. One of the report’s key findings is the rapid growth in impact funds, as impact investing moves from a niche strategy into the mainstream. billion in 2019.

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ESG Today

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Mirova was launched as a subsidiary of Natixis Investment Management in 2014, with a focus on sustainable and impact investing. Raphaël Lance, currently Head of Energy Transition Infrastructure Funds, will head this new platform.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 13, 2023

Oversight lacking The CARET project is a response to a problem that has its roots in the early 2000s, when small and medium-sized money management firms started to issue funds and other products with little regulatory oversight using basic ESG screening, engagement, thematic and impact investing strategies. In the U.S.,

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Impact Alpha

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

5 – Generate Capital, founded in 2014 by Jigar Shah and other renewable energy veterans, builds, owns and operates green power, transportation, water and waste management facilities and sells the services to Walmart, Whole Foods, New York City and other customers. ImpactAlpha, Feb.

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Impact Alpha

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

7 – The Nigerian-born entrepreneur and investor was investing in zones of opportunity before there were Opportunity Zones. In 2014, with Gray Lusk, he launched SoLa Impact, which now manages a family of funds expanding access to quality affordable The post Agent of Impact: Martin Muoto, SoLa Impact appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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3BL Media

MARCH 5, 2024

That makes the roughly $4 trillion US municipal bond market fertile ground for impact investing. Challenges like supplying clean water and improving access to quality healthcare can both be tackled through environmentally, socially, and financially productive investments in communities and institutions.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 27, 2025

When it comes to capital allocation, 7% of PRI signatories are investing in publicly traded green, social or other types of thematic bonds to achieve sustainability outcomes. From big private equity (PE) players launching new energy transition-focused funds, to incorporating RI commitments within their limited partner (LP) agreements.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Brazil’s Enimpacto aims to provide a blueprint for other nations in Latin America to emulate, with one of the national strategy’s objectives being to increase impact investing in country from US$11 billion to US$120 billion. The post Investors Back Brazil’s Revised National Impact Strategy appeared first on ESG Investor.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 23, 2024

This recognition represents three consecutive years of exemplary ratings for Plant Farley and the first exemplary rating for Plant Hatch since 2014. Through our foundations and corporate giving, we invested over $90 million in grants, sponsorships and impact investments across our territories in 2023. per share.

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James Militzer

DECEMBER 21, 2022

They involve a wide range of subjects, including digital finance (and how it can reach lower-income segments); energy access (and the lack of funding that’s holding it back); and impact investing (and the measurement and gender equity challenges that have sparked criticism of the sector).

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James Militzer

DECEMBER 1, 2023

In the impact investing space, the Global Impact Investing Network’s IRIS+ offers a standardised impact measurement system that has been widely adopted across the industry.

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James Militzer

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The Challenges of Bringing Private Equity Investing to a Frontier Market I launched Dolma Impact Fund I in 2011, along with its fund manager Dolma Fund Management, achieving its first close in 2014. Our mission for Nepal was apparent, even though our path to it was not. Tim Gocher is Founder and CEO of Dolma Fund Management.

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James Militzer

MAY 19, 2025

For example, Indonesia’s Jaminan Kesehatan Nasional insurance program has achieved coverage for 93% of the population in less than a decade since its launch in 2014. To address these disparities, countries are implementing ambitious programs to drive broader insurance coverage.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 30, 2023

“The fact that those workers then show up at their jobs tired, burnt out, and not invested in the success of their company shouldn’t be a huge surprise to anybody.” From 1981 through 2014, wages for the top one percent in the United States increased by 176 percent while wages for the bottom 90% declined by 3%.

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Impact Alpha

JANUARY 10, 2020

Last month, TOMS Shoes, the social enterprise darling bought by Bain Capital in 2014, was handed over The post Agent of Impact: Delilah Rothenberg, Predistribution Initiative appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Earlier this month , the GSIA, the CFA Institute, and UN-convened Principles for Responsible Investment outlined aligned definitions for five terms: screening, ESG integration, thematic investing, stewardship, and impact investing.

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James Militzer

OCTOBER 10, 2022

The total investment needed to achieve universal access to clean cooking solutions by 2030 is around $8 billion per year. Yet current financing levels are far short of that: The 10 largest clean cooking companies have raised $200 million since 2014, 68% of total investments during this time.

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James Militzer

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

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. Both play an insidious — often nearly invisible — role in maintaining a deeply inequitable status quo. Take the question of bias.

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Stanford Social Innovation

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

We looked at spending across the social impact sector; including government , global and domestic philanthropy, and S-themed ESG assets under management; and found that globally we are spending an extraordinary amount of money—roughly $72 trillion annually—making social spending the world’s largest financial market.

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Chris Hall

JULY 15, 2022

Many investors scrambled to divest holdings, leading in some cases to significant financial losses, having failed to heed warnings and indicators that could have alerted them to future risks, including the 2014 annexing of Crimea.

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Cisco CSR

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

In 2014, he began WeThrive to deliver online entrepreneurial education to young people from backgrounds like his. Learn more about our community partners and our other social impact investments. Enduring Planet offers climate startups and SMBs various financing options without collateral, personal guarantees, or dilution.

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James Militzer

MAY 2, 2024

Whether it involves opportunities to build more BaaS solutions, create embedded finance tools to bring more of the country’s population into environmentally sustainable practices, or develop solutions that can help rural communities thrive, we are excited to see — and invest in — what’s next for India.

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James Militzer

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Since initiating operations in 2014, they’ve scaled to work with over 11,000 smallholder farmers, focusing on high-income generating crops, such as legumes. This year they announced that they’re building a digital fintech platform that will allow them to move beyond their current products to also provide credit services.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 27, 2022

Lloyd has served as a Member of the IASB since 2014, and Vice-Chair since 2016. Led by Matt Christensen , Global Head of Sustainable and Impact Investing, the unit will combine existing equity and debt investing expertise with a newly created impact measurement and management capability.

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Stanford Social Innovation

MAY 12, 2022

based impact investing firm SDS Capital Group closed its $150 million Supportive Housing Fund, which will build 1,800 units statewide, with 1,200 in Los Angeles. Such a public investment would attract other fund managers and private investors looking for the risk-adjusted returns that SDS homed in on. Late last year, L.A.-based

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Chris Hall

DECEMBER 11, 2024

In 2014, a review conducted by its Treasury concluded that the Australian pensions system was not operationally efficient due to a lack of strong price-based competition and, as a result, the benefits of its scale [were] not being fully realised. That is an area that the government has missed, and perhaps could look at again.

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Chris Hall

JANUARY 27, 2023

Winds of change Prior to 2014, there was no risk capital available for agrifood tech, says Cooper. Private markets valuations, therefore, were looking good by comparison, says Cooper, driving deal activity and capital inflows to sustainable VC funds. But the grass wasn’t always so green.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 22, 2020

To turn her love of nature from a hobby into a career, Adams joined MetLife as a sustainability intern in 2014. Her crowning achievement, so far at least, was building Our Green Impact. Souza partners with organizations such as the Amazonas Sustainable Development Agency to provide technical assistance to farmers.

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Causeartist: Sustainable Technology

MARCH 5, 2019

To tackle the global water crisis, Hamza Farrukh founded the non-profit Bondh E Shams in 2014 to develop a portable, solar-powered water extraction and filtration system. 3 out of 10 people around the world – or 2.1 billion people lack access to safe water, with 3.4 Bondh E…

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James Militzer

JUNE 19, 2025

France has seen similar trends , with consultancy firms receiving €11 million in 2014, €103 million in 2018 and €200 million in 2022 — without accounting for IT expenditures. In the UK, public spending on private consulting rose by 62% from 2019 to 2024 to £1.3 billion, provoking experts to call the expenditure “scandalous.”

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