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A Portfolio Approach to ESG and CSR: Why Supporting Social Entrepreneurship Accelerators Makes Sense for Corporate Funders

James Militzer

A desire to address the effects of climate change is the driving force for many corporations seeking to meet environmental, social and governance (ESG) or corporate social responsibility (CSR) goals. Data and selected examples of social enterprises whose services address climate resilience.

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

James Militzer

Green finance flows in the country totaled US $17 billion in FY 2017 and US $21 billion in FY 2018. The government followed this up in 2011, by setting up the Climate Change Finance Unit within the Ministry of Finance as a coordinating agency for the various institutions responsible for green finance in India.

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Asia Wakes Up to Blue Finance Regulation

Chris Hall

Financing gaps The climate case for investing more in protecting ocean and coastal ecosystems is inarguable; ocean-based climate solutions could reduce the global greenhouse gas emissions gap by up to 35% on a 1.5°C

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The fight for a better tomorrow: Canada's top 30 under 30 sustainability leaders of 2022

Corporate Knights

Ten days earlier, seven Ontario youth appeared in court virtually to challenge the provincial government’s decision to gut its climate targets in 2018. “We In 2018, Watts co-founded an accelerator for young people in low-income, high-climate-risk countries working on climate start-ups. That’s the power of compounded action,” she says.

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Cisco Foundation grantee uses data to fight climate change and rebuild healthy forests

Cisco CSR

Cisco Foundation has made a grant to the nonprofit VP Data Commons and a social impact investment to the for-profit Vibrant Planet, which together total US$1M. When the big fire season in 2018 hit California, I started talking to climate scientists I knew about the intersection between climate change and land management.

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The 2020 GreenBiz 30 Under 30

GreenBiz

Manager, Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility, Kilroy Realty; Los Angeles. Robert Luo’s innovative approach for addressing food waste was inspired by time spent in 2018 on his uncle’s dairy farm in China. That’s something Liu would fix if she had infinite resources. Deonna Anderson. Sarah Golden. LinkedIn

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