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The Brief: Mainstreaming impact investing in Japan, regenerative animal farming, converting light into energy, chief Opportunity Zone officers

Impact Alpha

Featured: ImpactAlpha Original Japanese investors push to take impact investing mainstream. Japan is staking out a leadership position in sustainable investing. Sustainable investing assets under management quadrupled from 2016 to 2018 to 18% of managed assets.

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As Nature Intended

Chris Hall

“My role is to oversee the sustainability approach we take across all this: what our priorities and principles should be, which actions to take, which data to collect, and how to message that to our stakeholders,” he said, reflecting on his incumbent role.

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Financing Restoration

Chris Hall

Other frameworks, such as the Soil Carbon Initiative – a third-party regenerative agriculture commitment and verification programme – have also emerged in parallel. The firm has long engaged in sustainable investing, including through its Biodiversity Equity fund – albeit a public markets vehicle.

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Climate Emergency Risks Stranding Women

Chris Hall

New guidance is also emerging to help investors set clear, measurable targets that assess the gender and climate-related impacts of their investments in tandem. billion in climate-related venture capital funding went to start-ups with at least one female founder, BCG said.

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This Week’s Fund News: Mediolanum Picks KBI, Pictet for Circular Fund

Chris Hall

ESG Investor’s weekly round-up of news about funds designed to meet sustainable investing criteria, including Mediolanum, KBI Global Investors, Pictet Asset Management, Invesco, Nuveen, SWEN Capital Partners and SIS Ventures.

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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.

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The ESG Interview: Profits that Don’t Cost the Earth

Chris Hall

Generating returns from regenerative agriculture is positive for the planet but entails a different risk profile for investors, says Paul McMahon, Managing Partner at SLM Partners. Climate change impacts are “stressing agriculture, forestry, fisheries, and aquaculture, increasingly hindering efforts to meet human needs”.