Impact Alpha

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Featured: Building a personal portfolio of impact investments in the creative economy. The post The Brief: Creative portfolios, digitizing doctors, women’s livelihoods, immigrant founders, plastic waste, moves from Bridgewater, BlackRock and New York Common appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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Impact Alpha

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The post Food-waste solutions for climate change are ripe for catalytic capital appeared first on ImpactAlpha. It is by now abundantly clear that the climate crisis is no longer a future concern. It’s happening now, and we must act.

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Impact Alpha

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Featured: ImpactAlpha Original Prudential’s $1 billion portfolio of impact investments offers a blueprint for institutional investors. The post The Brief: Prudential’s billion-dollar blueprint, sustainable alt-leather, prison education, stormwater and waste reduction bonds, Carlyle’s strategy appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The Scottish Environment Protection Agency is warning of a new trend in waste crime after two abandoned trailers full of waste appeared in the central belt in recent weeks. Similar instances of waste being placed into trailers and being abandoned at roadsides and industrial locations has been seen in England over recent months.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 30, 2021

A major milestone was seemingly reached in late July with the registration of the 100th waste management project to the Circular Action Hub (CAH) , an innovative platform launched 12 months ago by UK and Brazil based not-for-profit, BVRio. The PREVENT Waste Alliance has provided funding to a number of projects on the hub.

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Impact Alpha

DECEMBER 15, 2021

15 – Commercial and catalytic investors poured $5 billion this year into technology and tools to reduce food waste solutions, and are. The post Food-waste solutions are a big business – and a big opportunity to stem climate change appeared first on ImpactAlpha. ImpactAlpha, Dec.

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3BL Media

MAY 2, 2024

We manage our day-to-day facility operations to reduce our climate impact through energy efficiency, water conservation, waste management and a continued focus on our carbon footprint. We’ve also invested in refrigerant recovery and reduction, and in using more eco-friendly options.

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Corporate Knights

JUNE 25, 2023

These events are becoming more frequent and more extreme, highlighting the pressing need for individuals and corporations to find solutions to deal with the far-reaching impacts of climate change. Through our investment, we are helping Mycocycle scale their operations and capabilities so they can process a wider range of waste materials.

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3BL Media

APRIL 29, 2024

We manage our day-to-day facility operations to reduce our climate impact through energy efficiency, water conservation, waste management and a continued focus on our carbon footprint. Our commitment to sustainability carries through to the design of our spaces, our investment strategy and the investment products we offer consumers.

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3BL Media

APRIL 17, 2024

Impactful commitments and growth metrics notated in the report include: Delivering financial security and expanding financial access: Driven by its mission to improve lives through financial security, the company increased its Impact Investment Fund to $175M to expand access to capital for entrepreneurs in underserved communities; and continued efforts (..)

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Corporate Knights

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Businesses and investors have a critical role to play in each of these action domains, especially when it comes to shifting to more sustainable production and manufacturing processes, investing in energy efficiency and waste reduction, conservation of natural resources, and investing in climate solutions that also support biodiversity.

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Impact Alpha

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

What’s more surprising is the growing number of examples in The post The Brief: Opportunity Zones’ homegrown impact, underrepresented Nordics, ethical jewelry, waste to fuel, stock market climate mandates appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Corporate Knights

AUGUST 10, 2022

We can also reclaim waste materials like shingles or drywall to be part of the circular economy.”. Co-operators puts more than 21% of their invested assets, more than $2.6 billion, into impact investments that aim to solve pressing environmental and social challenges.

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James Militzer

JANUARY 8, 2024

First Place Repairing Electronics: A Circular Economy Solution for Reducing E-Waste and Building Resilience in Rural Africa In our top-voted article of 2023, Sofia Ollvid at SolarAid explores a SolarAid program that is training technicians in Africa to repair solar devices, offering a promising solution to the problem of electronic waste.

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ESG Today

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Planet A Founding Partner Lena Thiede, who leads the scientific impact measurement, said: “Many funds look at CO2 emissions only. We go beyond climate mitigation and also look at biodiversity protection, resource savings, and waste reduction.

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James Militzer

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Applying this lens to articles in the current contest, a couple of intriguing themes emerge, ranging from ways to increase businesses’ growth and impact (e.g., reducing e-waste from solar products, increasing transparency in carbon credits).

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Chris Hall

JULY 26, 2023

million metric tonnes of e-waste in 2019, and yet only 17.4% Although it only represents 2% of solid waste streams, e-waste makes up 70% of hazardous waste in landfills. of it was recycled.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Decreased operational costs Sustainable investments often lead to more efficient operations, particularly in terms of energy use, water consumption, and waste management. Another way companies reduce operational costs is through investing in a sustainable supply chain.

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3BL Media

JUNE 8, 2022

DESCRIPTION: With more capital being directed to meet urgent social and environmental needs, demand for individuals with an impact mindset is growing. If your business is looking to better understand the current demand for impact talent in the infrastructure space, please get in touch with Ian at ian.povey-hall@acre.com.

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3BL Media

MARCH 5, 2024

That makes the roughly $4 trillion US municipal bond market fertile ground for impact investing. Challenges like supplying clean water and improving access to quality healthcare can both be tackled through environmentally, socially, and financially productive investments in communities and institutions.

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Impact Alpha

JULY 13, 2023

ImpactAlpha, July 13 – The Boston- and Montreal-based firm will use the capital for debt and equity investments in green energy, waste, food. The post Spring Lane Capital clinches $290 million for second sustainable infrastructure fund appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Richard Matthews

MARCH 21, 2022

The list of leading impact investment focused PE firms is presented according to the SDG goals they are associated with, however, all of these firms have a set of interests that extend beyond the category of their primary concern. . Factor[e] focuses on clean energy, cleantech, climate change, sustainable agriculture, water and waste.

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3BL Media

JULY 26, 2023

It is possible to design out waste , so we are re-building products from used ones. 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 aim to transform our business to extend the useful life of our products and provide ongoing services.

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ESG Today

JULY 1, 2022

Holcim is developing new types of cements , increasing the use of waste-based fuels, and operating pilot plants where unavoidable carbon emissions are captured. Stephanie Bilo, Chief Client & Investment Solutions Officer at responsAbility, said: “The urgency of decarbonization requires investors to take credible action.

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Chris Hall

JULY 1, 2022

The manager’s Environmental and Social Management System (ESMS) drew on the Global Impact Investing Network’s (GIIN) IRIS+ framework to review credible agriculture-related listed measurable objectives and impacts, identifying those which best correlated with the sustainable ambitions of the Cibus. .

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3BL Media

MARCH 1, 2022

Georgina Sell, Principal Consultant - Sustainable & Impact Investing at Acre, said: "It was exciting to see that there was a lot more participation at COP this year from corporates, particularly private and investment firms, and we have started to understand the impact of this on hiring trends.

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James Militzer

JULY 25, 2023

For instance, green enterprises can have a positive environmental and/or climate impact either through the process of delivering products/services (e.g., waste management). For example, waste management and the circular economy present two of Kenya and India’s most significant market opportunities.

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Impact Alpha

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

5 – Generate Capital, founded in 2014 by Jigar Shah and other renewable energy veterans, builds, owns and operates green power, transportation, water and waste management facilities and sells the services to Walmart, Whole Foods, New York City and other customers. ImpactAlpha, Feb.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

To disclose under the improvers category, a fund must demonstrate an ambition to invest at least 70% in assets that have the potential to improve environmental, social or sustainability goals. Jacques suggested the UK government should introduce an “in-practice certification” that would consider the actual annual emissions of a building.

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Impact Alpha

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Australia’s ATEC is applying the financing model to biodigestion to enable Asia’s smallholder farmers to manage farm waste and simultaneously tap a new energy source: biogas. ImpactAlpha, December 2 – Solar startups pioneered the pay-as-you-go model to introduce low-income, off-grid customers to electricity.

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Sense and Sustainability

JANUARY 12, 2022

Using this definition, the environmental pillar most notably encompasses considerations of climate change in terms of physical and transitional risk for companies, given the projected impacts of climate change. water), deforestation, waste, and pollution. In other words, a positive impact is valued above financial returns.

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Chris Hall

JUNE 28, 2023

“We will be targeting key sectors that are systematically important to achieving the global goal of stopping and reversing nature loss by 2030 due to their large impacts on habitat loss, overexploitation of resources, and soil, water and solid waste pollution. “We encourage institutional investors to work with us to reverse this existential risk,” (..)

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Chris Hall

MAY 20, 2022

“Some of that money needs to be channelled towards scaling up the emerging infrastructure technologies, companies and assets across critical sectors, such as digital infrastructure like small cells and green data centres, battery storage, electric vehicle charging and waste management.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

A small number of influential large companies are creating internal funds to support sustainability goals specific to circular economy initiatives, such as designing out waste and recovering materials from products used internally or sold in the market. The eyes of traditional investors are widening to the landscape as well.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2022

All companies have received funding from Innovate UKs Sustainable Innovation Fund and are now seeking venture capital to scale their business and impact. Lytegro – Company converting waste bananas into products which accelerate the growth and productivity of industrially important microbes (distilling, anaerobic digestor and pharma).

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Kristen Perry 26, Toronto managing director, Spring Investing Collective Kristen Perry is blazing a trail for under-represented Canadians to participate in impact investing. “I There’s a lot of work to be done to advance the circular economy and ensure that we are moving away from a linear ‘take-make-waste’ system.”

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Additionally, fish farms can generate waste that pollutes local water resources and natural habitats. “Stocking density levels are both a driver of profitability and animal welfare, and fish escapes threaten the local environment,” says François Mosnier, Head of Planet Tracker’s Oceans Programme.

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