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The Brief: Overheard at the GIIN forum, smallholder coffee, smart grids, recyclable fashion, data-driven healthcare, OPIC woes

Impact Alpha

Featured: ImpactAlpha Original Feeling the heat: Overheard at the Global Impact Investing Network investor forum. More than 1,000 impact investors and other Agents of Impact filled up the vast Beurs Van Berlage in the center of Amsterdam on Wednesday for the Global Impact Investing Network’s investor forum.

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The Plan for Possible: How Cisco is Connecting a Regenerative Future

3BL Media

We have a plan: It is possible to power the world with affordable clean energy , so we are helping to digitize smart grids and smart buildings. We believe that future is possible, and Cisco can help get us there. It is possible to design out waste , so we are re-building products from used ones.

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Can AI terminate climate change.or is it an even greater threat?

Corporate Knights

They can be found in domains as disparate as smart grids, manufacturing, transit, renewable energy, agriculture and biodiversity monitoring, as well as the forecasting techniques used in climate change models. “A A ton of climate tech companies are working on solutions that leverage AI.