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SDG mapping is not impact investing, says GIIN CEO

Environmental Finance

Investors that retrospectively tag assets for 'alignment' with UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are not impact investors and produce "impact by coincidence", said the CEO of the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN).

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Samasource raises $14.8 million to connect tech giants with Africa’s data talent

Impact Alpha

San Francisco-based Samasource trains and hires data reviewers in East Africa to tag photos and annotate other data sources for Fortune 500 companies. ImpactAlpha, November 25 – Behind the red-hot “machine learning” market are human minds that design algorithms and sort underlying data.

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This Week’s Tech and Tools News: London Stock Exchange Consults on VCM

Chris Hall

Ortec Finance, a provider of risk and return management technology and solutions, develops a broad range of scenarios and long-range projections on how the climate crisis could impact investments.

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Comparing Business Models for Scaling Access to Productive Use of Energy Appliances in Agriculture: The Advantages of Pay-Per-Use

James Militzer

Beyond subsidies, implementers themselves can seek financing through nonprofit donors, impact investments, crowdfunding or bank loans. This removes the upfront technology acquisition cost barrier for high-cost PUE products, whose price tag can be quite high.

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Unlocking Emerging Markets

Chris Hall

For the smaller debt management offices of some countries, they’ve already run out of projects they can tag as pure green,” notes Fiona Stewart, Lead Financial Sector Specialist at the World Bank. .

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Can Sustainability Standards Minimise Friction and Divergence?

Chris Hall

Further, “an element of flexibility” should be introduced when companies are unable to source the relevant data, as approximations and estimates “could lead to misleading, inconsistent and inaccurate reporting that could negatively impact investment decisions and capital allocation”. .