Impact Alpha

AUGUST 30, 2021

The post Khatabook and Bazaar raise financing to digitize small businesses in India and Pakistan appeared first on ImpactAlpha. ImpactAlpha, August 30 — Investors continue to swarm enterprise technology providers helping small businesses go online. Last week, Nuvemshop raised $500 million to.

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Impact Alpha

AUGUST 9, 2023

Featured: Nature-Based Solutions Revival of Pakistan’s mangroves provides a blueprint for global restoration. The post The Brief: Mangrove revival in Pakistan, bankruptcy for electric bus maker, giving circles, lab-grown pork, piloting character-based lending appeared first on ImpactAlpha. Greetings, Agents of Impact!

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Impact Alpha

OCTOBER 1, 2021

ImpactAlpha, October 1 – Halima Iqbal didn’t plan to start her own fintech company when she returned to Pakistan in 2018, after years. The post Oraan’s Halima Iqbal and Farwah Tapal: Digitizing women’s savings circles in Pakistan appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Sustainable Development Network

JANUARY 28, 2021

SDSN Network’s Strategy Council approves the establishment of a National SDSN in Pakistan, hosted by the Institute for Global Health and Development at the Aga Khan University. Pakistan ranks 126 out of 156 countries on SDSN’s SDG Index and is a priority country for action by the SDSN.

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Sustainable Development Network

MARCH 4, 2022

SDSN Pakistan recently had its official launch event from March 6-7 2022. Pakistan has several strong universities, many of them known for their engineering disciplines, crucial to promoting solution initiatives for some of the most critical challenges of the country. The new network was officially established in January 2021.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Join us in applauding KFC India and KFC Pakistan for their commitment to championing equity, inclusion and belonging in their restaurants by offering professional development and educational opportunities for the hearing and speech impaired.

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Green Project Management

JANUARY 28, 2023

Recently, many countries have experienced catastrophic flooding, but few countries have been hit as hard as Pakistan. Unfortunately, the attention this tragedy is receiving does not match its severity or scale.

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Impact Alpha

JUNE 8, 2021

The post The Brief: Capitalism reimagined, good jobs in Pakistan, impact exit in Uganda, edtech in Vietnam, biotech financing in Hong Kong, biodiversity risk disclosure appeared first on Impact Alpha. Reminder: Tideline is hosting “Impact Investment at the Institutional Tipping Point,” Thursday, June. Featured: Capitalism Reimagined Omidyar.

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Impact Alpha

APRIL 21, 2021

Featured: ImpactAlpha Original In Pakistan, investing with a gender lens gives i2i Ventures an early-stage edge. The post The Brief: Gender alpha in Pakistan, Earth Day dealflow, Classy’s capital, an inclusive next normal, Mosaic fellows, PhDs to VCs appeared first on Impact Alpha. Greetings, Agents of Impact! If overlooked markets.

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Sustainable Development Network

JANUARY 5, 2024

This event was attended by nearly 700 participants in-person, and 170 virtually.

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Global Renewable News

JANUARY 31, 2024

Scatec ASA, a leader in renewable energy solutions, has finalised construction and started producing clean energy from its 150 MW solar power plants in Sukkur, Pakistan.The power plants will gen.

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Sense and Sustainability

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

The new decade opened with a joint drill between the navies of Pakistan and China. Called “Sea Guardians 2020,” the exercise signified Pakistan’s posture in finally developing a concrete Indian Ocean policy. Pakistan is located at the cusp of the Arabian Sea, close to the Strait of Hormuz.

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Impact Alpha

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

ImpactAlpha, November 12 – Pakistan is the fifth most populous country in the world, but its investment ecosystem is still more development-focused than innovation-focused. Micro- and small business finance rather than venture capital.)

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Science Daily / Earth & Environment

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

A research team investigated changes in seasonal variability of streamflow over Pakistan from bias-corrected regional climate projections.

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Eco-Business

MARCH 11, 2024

Pakistan's post-election X shutdown faces a legal challenge as campaigners decry effect on freedoms and businesses face losses.

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Impact Alpha

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The post The Brief: Place-based fixed income, private-markets ESG, European foodtech, agri-marketplace in Pakistan, Black and Latinx tech founders, Detroit’s EV dreams appeared first on ImpactAlpha. Kameale Terry and ChargerHelp are making “electric vehicle service technician” a middle-class.

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Impact Alpha

AUGUST 30, 2021

The post The Brief: Resilience force for hurricane recovery (podcast), small business digitization in India and Pakistan, EVs in Australia, lower minimums for climate funds appeared first on ImpactAlpha. In financial markets, new calculations of risk and value are.

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Eco-Business

MARCH 11, 2024

Erum Sattar from Pakistan and Uttam Kumar Sinha from India discuss the Shahpurkandi dam's implications, stressing the importance of collaboration under the Indus Waters Treaty.

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Impact Alpha

JANUARY 7, 2021

The post The Brief: Top 10 sustainability forecasts, affordable housing in Atlanta, small business financing in Pakistan and Egypt, workforce development amid COVID appeared first on Impact Alpha. Featured: Here are 10 ways investors are riding the sustainability wave into 2021.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 29, 2022

She’s determined to help other women in Pakistan avoid that same lonely path. I am based in Karachi, Pakistan, and have been in the tech industry for over 12 years. It's been six years and we have nearly 10,000 members, all women tech workers from Pakistan. Right now Pakistan is basically a service shop. SOURCE: Logitech.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Smog near the India-Pakistan border. During the “smog season” – from October to January – air quality reaches “hazardous” levels, as recorded by multiple, independent sources including the air quality monitors installed by the United States Consulate in Lahore and the crowdsourced data collated by the Pakistan Air Quality Initiative.

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Environmental News Bits

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

by Andrew King, The University of Melbourne Extreme floods are devastating Pakistan, caused by a combination of heavy monsoon rains and melting glaciers. While Pakistan is no stranger to deadly floods, this event is especially shocking with more than 1,100 people dead so far and many millions more affected.

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

“Starting a business is especially difficult for women in a male-dominated society like Pakistan,” Fariha Irfan, a small-business owner in Rawalpindi told me when I met her earlier this year. “At At every step we need men to assist us, whether that’s our husbands or our brothers.” “At It’s been so successful, it’s being copied by competitors.

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Eco-Business

OCTOBER 12, 2023

As Pakistan's cost-of-living crisis deepens, some poor families leave cities to eke out cheaper existences in village homes.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The five winners - drawn from India, Mali, Nigeria, Pakistan, and South Africa - are already active in tackling some of the world’s leading causes of ill health. The Provocateur Award - Dr. Iffat Zafar Aga from Sehat Kehani / Pakistan. The Lodestar Award - Women at Risk International Foundation (WARIF) / Nigeria. million lives.

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Eco-Business

MARCH 16, 2023

Progress towards the construction of a China-funded coal power plant in Gwadar raises questions about the climate pledges of both China and Pakistan.

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Impact Alpha

AUGUST 9, 2023

9 – Less than 20 years ago, Keti Bandar, a coastal town in southeastern Pakistan, had barren shores. The post Revival of Pakistan’s mangroves provides a blueprint for global restoration appeared first on ImpactAlpha. ImpactAlpha, Aug. Today, it’s a.

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Corporate Knights

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

Pakistan, a country whose contribution to greenhouse gas emissions is tiny by Canadian standards, knows the fury and the injustice of climate chaos. The floods in Pakistan are one front in our clash with the planetary boundaries that define the rules for everything we do, but the war with nature will come to your doorstep soon.

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Science Daily / Earth & Environment

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Fifteen million people around the world are at risk from flooding caused by glacial lakes, with just four countries -- India, Pakistan, China and Peru -- accounting for more than half of those exposed.

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Eco-Business

MAY 3, 2023

As Pakistan tries to rebuild better after devastating floods, cheap, natural and easy-to-construct homes may be one answer.

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3BL Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

With a goal to reach 6 million entrepreneurs in Pakistan, Peru and Vietnam through campaigns, Strive Women will directly support over 300,000 entrepreneurs—the majority being women—to boost their economic potential.

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Eco-Business

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

From building waterways to crop insurance, Pakistan urged to implement a holistic climate resilience plan to stem future disasters.

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Science Daily / Earth & Environment

JULY 11, 2023

mass for 29 states in India and six surrounding countries: Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka and Myanmar. A new study has evaluated the contribution of various emission sectors and fuels to PM2.5

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McKinsey Sustainabilty

JULY 26, 2022

Stakeholders can consider a range of bold initiatives to transform education and create new opportunities for youth in the Middle East, North Africa, and Pakistan.

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Eco-Business

JANUARY 11, 2024

Inspired by Indonesia, Haneea Isaad finds that Pakistan would also benefit from early coal retirement.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Middle East, North Africa, and Pakistan (MENAP) Progress Against End-to-End CO2 e Reduction Goal by 2025 - Renewables We signed several agreements across Egypt, Bahrain and Pakistan during 2022 that aim at accelerating the installation of solar.

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Energy Central

APRIL 4, 2024

Additionally, the region’s geographic position between nuclear-armed Russia, China, India, and Pakistan, as well as abutting a nuclear-aspiring Iran, makes engagement with the region an.

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