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Cisco Foundation Grantee Uses Data To Fight Climate Change and Rebuild Healthy Forests

3BL Media

What is different now is the severity of the fires due to climate change and overgrown, unhealthy and dry forests; 1.3 These tactics are vital to mitigating the impact of climate change-fueled wildfires on people, communities, and the environment. Then I became more interested in nature-based climate solutions.

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Impact Investing Should Be Hard

Stanford Social Innovation

Many have recognized this issue of difficulty as a central challenge for impact investing. In a seminal 2009 white paper, the Monitor Institute noted that “the long and difficult work of ensuring investment impact” could stand at odds with “existing financial markets and incentives.”

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

Cisco CSR

What is different now is the severity of the fires due to climate change and overgrown, unhealthy and dry forests; 1.3 These tactics are vital to mitigating the impact of climate change-fueled wildfires on people, communities, and the environment. Then I became more interested in nature-based climate solutions.

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Tackling Eco-Anxiety Through Experiential Education

Stanford Social Innovation

By Zoey England Today’s college students are coming of age in a warming world, growing up as climate change has accelerated into an intensifying crisis that leaves no community untouched. Research shows many young people are experiencing adverse psychological and emotional impacts as a result.

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Top 10 Business Sustainability Issues of 2023

B the Change

This free downloadable resource helps businesses engage in reflection, learning, and action around climate justice. The toolkit includes a Climate Justice Reflection Challenge, glossary, and calls to action. Climate Change 4. How to empower marginalized voices in climate decisions. How to reduce carbon emissions.

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Status Quo a Barrier to Africa’s Future as Green Superpower

Chris Hall

Climate finance channelled into Africa cannot be upscaled in line with a 1.5°C The Loss and Damage Fund was unveiled at COP27 and aims to compensate countries most vulnerable to climate change. Recommendations for funding arrangements will be made at COP28 in December.

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A Realist’s Guide to Investing for Good

Stanford Social Innovation

In fact, almost 85 percent of individual investors say they are interested in sustainable investing and more than three quarters believe they can use their investments to influence the extent of climate change. But if you are not willing to concede any returns from your “impactinvestments, your options are limited.