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Want To Boost the Global Economy by $10 Trillion?

3BL Media

Photo: CARE Peru Data from the Gates Foundation suggests that investing in the economic power of women like Fariha could boost the global economy by as much as $10 trillion by 2030 – twice the GDP of Japan, the world’s third largest economy. Elizabeth Vargas Vilca and her staff at her shoe manufacturing business.

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Proving the ROI of ESG: How These 6 Organizations are Crushing It

GreenBiz

Demonstrating ROI for your ESG efforts is more vital than ever given the uncertainty around global economy and geopolitics. This means not only reporting to and aligning with internal stakeholders and the board, but also staying on top of the diverse global reporting frameworks when budgets are tight and teams are getting leaner.

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Carlyle, GIC, Back Gigawatt-Scale Green Ammonia Developer Eneus Energy

ESG Today

Global private capital investment firm The Carlyle Group and Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund, GIC announced today a strategic investment in green ammonia project development company Eneus Energy, aimed at supporting the company’s 14GW+ project pipeline development.

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Call for Abstracts: 2024 International Conference on Sustainable Development

Sustainable Development Network

The Global Association of Master’s in Development Practice Programs ( MDP ), in collaboration with the Sustainable Development Solutions Network ( SDSN ), will hold the 12th Annual International Conference on Sustainable Development (ICSD) on 19-20 September, 2024.

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Paul Polman's rallying cry for courageous leaders

GreenBiz

Governments already have spent $12 trillion to $13 trillion just to stabilize global economies ravaged by COVID-19. Many of these same governments are devising ways to reconstruct global economies by spending back better, addressing climate change and inequality along the way. Spend back better. To stay below a 1.5

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Wellington Management Raises $385 Million for Climate Tech Venture Fund

ESG Today

Wasserman said: “Climate change is an existential threat to society and touches every sector of the global economy, making it one of the largest and most necessary investment opportunities we will see in our lifetimes.

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Navigating the Rising Tide: The Convergence of Climate Change and Global Trade

3BL Media

This is “imposing significant costs on governments, corporations, NGOs, regional economies and other stakeholders. In 2019, flooding accrued a hefty price tag of $82 billion for global economies,” Enright notes, citing The Wall Street Journal. And there is potential for these costs to surge past $1.2