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Major investor alliance working to clean up greenwash lurking in ESG

Corporate Knights

This has become especially true in the last few years as UN climate change summits have raised expectations that global capital can be deployed to help solve the climate crisis. In the beginning, most banks and large money management firms didn’t pay much attention. A 2015 report from the U.S.

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List of the Top Sustainability Focused Private Equity Firms

Richard Matthews

Clean Energy Ventures is focused on affordable clean energy, cleantech, climate change, water, and sanitation. With the goal of “mitigation of climate change through energy innovation,” Clean Energy Ventures are funding ~25 disruptive startups which each have the potential to reduce GHGs by at least 2.5

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Synergies and Trade-offs at the Climate-nature Nexus

Chris Hall

C without nature, and that climate change is one of the five main drivers of biodiversity loss. As Siga suggests, factoring climate change into investment decisions is more of a known quantity, if far from an exact science. These plans and projects stem from a broadening awareness that there is no path to 1.5°C

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USAID announces partnership with Rabo Foundation to sustainably invest in Asia’s future

Eco-Business

Beginning with its pilot efforts in Indonesia, this partnership will enable Rabo Foundation to make more climate-conscious investments. This effort builds upon earlier partnerships with Rabo Foundation. million of local financing to small and medium private enterprises engaged in sustainable and low emission land use in India.

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Today’s climate legislation is likely only the beginning

Jon Hale

As readers are probably well aware, Republicans are fighting a rear-guard action at the state level, trying to intimidate banks and asset managers that are addressing climate change by threatening to pull state business from them. You make the wisest, long-term and responsible decisions you can.” economy.”