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Forget about Mobile Money, Invest in Insurtech Instead: The Untapped Triple Bottom Line Opportunity in Nigeria

James Militzer

Africa has already seen this sort of disruption and rapid scale in the broader fintech sector over the past decade, specifically with mobile money and digital banking. For instance, they work with ride-hailing apps to sell insurance products to these apps’ users, a model that has allowed them to insure half a million people since 2018.

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Women lead the world’s most sustainable cities

Corporate Knights

In a highly symbolic move, she had the highway that ran along the left bank of the Seine converted into 4.5 Under Karin Wanngård, who served as mayor from 2014 to 2018, the city set itself a target of being not only carbon neutral but fossil-fuel free by 2040, five years earlier than the Swedish national goal. Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo.

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These 50 Canadian corporate citizens are a cut above

Corporate Knights

In third place is Hydro-Québec, which was the top company in 2022, 2021 and 2018. It’s evidence that the “triple bottom line” (profit, people and planet) doesn’t compromise the single bottom line – but expands it. The “most improved” company on the list is Canadian National Railway.

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Meet the women warrior accountants pushing the envelope on climate action

Corporate Knights

In the 1990s, progressive economists were pushing for what they called full-cost accounting: a triple bottom line that took profits, people and the planet into consideration. Todd wasn’t alone. But as admirable and important as the project sounded, the tools were missing. Recent reports from the U.K.’s

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The 2020 GreenBiz 30 Under 30

GreenBiz

She became intrigued by her clients’ requests for investments with a triple bottom line — and the very notion that profitability and impact needn’t be mutually exclusive. . Robert Luo’s innovative approach for addressing food waste was inspired by time spent in 2018 on his uncle’s dairy farm in China. Sarah Golden.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

Ecolab says it helped its customers save enough water in 2018 equivalent to the needs of 600 million people. Yet about six months in as president and COO at Starbucks, she was terrified in 2018 to hear that two Black men had been arrested needlessly at one of its Philadelphia stores. I felt like it happened under my watch.".