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• Fashion-focused carbon emissions software firm raises $15m

  Posted in category:

  • Climate & environment,
  • Venture capital

  

  Fashion-focused carbon emissions software firm raises $15m

  Posted in category:

  • Climate & environment,
  • Venture capital

  10 May 2024

  More than 150 brands and suppliers in the apparel and footwear industry use Carbonfact software to help them to better understand where their carbon emissions come from and how they can reduce them.

  

  Written by:

  • Karolina Adamkiewicz

• Walking the walk on Earth Day

  Posted in category:

  • Climate & environment

  

  Walking the walk on Earth Day

  Posted in category:

  • Climate & environment

  22 Apr 2024

  Earth Day is an annual day of action, calling for a change in human behaviour and for stronger government and international initiatives to save our planet and its vital resources. We asked leading figures in the world of impact what they do, on a personal level, to make the earth a better place.

  

  Written by:

  • Impact Investor

• Viewpoint: How can portfolio managers navigate the risk of not achieving the desired returns in impact investing?

  Posted in category:

  • Impact ecosystem,
  • Impact measurement

  

  Viewpoint: How can portfolio managers navigate the risk of not achieving the desired returns in impact investing?

  Posted in category:

  • Impact ecosystem,
  • Impact measurement

  06 May 2024

  Should we adopt ESG investing as the modus operandi, or avoid it? Part of this debate centres around whether impact investments are achieving their desired impact, writes Better Finance’s Tenke A. Zoltani.

  

  Written by:

  • Tenke A. Zoltani

• Impact Investor Forum: Meet the speakers

  Posted in category:

  • Climate & environment,
  • Impact Investing for Pensions,
  • Social impact,
  • Updates

  

  Impact Investor Forum: Meet the speakers

  Posted in category:

  • Climate & environment,
  • Impact Investing for Pensions,
  • Social impact,
  • Updates

  30 Apr 2024

  The first annual Impact Investor Forum brings together an array of pension fund practitioners and industry experts to look at how institutional investors are engaging with the just transition.

  

  Written by:

  • Impact Investor

• Sustainable luxury fashion label Another Tomorrow secures backing from Una Terra

  Posted in category:

  • Biodiversity,
  • Circular economy,
  • Climate & environment

  

  Sustainable luxury fashion label Another Tomorrow secures backing from Una Terra

  Posted in category:

  • Biodiversity,
  • Circular economy,
  • Climate & environment

  15 Mar 2024

  Swiss-based Una Terra has invested €2m to support the global growth and impact goals of the New York-based luxury ready-to-wear firm which focuses on circularity and sustainable supply chains.

  

  Written by:

  • Impact Investor

• Invest-NL’s Holwerda: “Dutch institutional investors should invest more in venture capital”

  Posted in category:

  • Circular economy,
  • Climate & environment,
  • Impact ecosystem,
  • Venture capital

  

  Invest-NL’s Holwerda: “Dutch institutional investors should invest more in venture capital”

  Posted in category:

  • Circular economy,
  • Climate & environment,
  • Impact ecosystem,
  • Venture capital

  18 Mar 2024

  Leo Holwerda, director capital, Invest-NL, the Netherlands’ main national promotional institution, on why it pays to make finance available for what may seem ‘unfinanceable’.

  

  Written by:

  • Danielle Rossingh

• UN-backed global consultation on how to make fashion industry net-positive launched

  Posted in category:

  • Climate & environment

  

  UN-backed global consultation on how to make fashion industry net-positive launched

  Posted in category:

  • Climate & environment

  21 Nov 2022

  The Fashion Industry Target Consultation, an initiative by United Nations Environment Programme and Global Fashion Agenda is inviting stakeholders across the fashion value chain to share insights on how to meet climate goals.

  

  Written by:

  • Karolina Adamkiewicz

• Industry hails launch of the CTI Fashion Initiative

  Posted in category:

  • Circular economy,
  • Climate & environment

  

  Industry hails launch of the CTI Fashion Initiative

  Posted in category:

  • Circular economy,
  • Climate & environment

  14 Jul 2023

  The growing problem of fashion waste affects our climate, ecosystems, and health. The textile and fashion industry is looking for ‘circular solutions’, and fast.

  

  Written by:

  • Christian Nielsen

• €3mn impact investment in platform for vintage designer fashion

  Posted in category:

  • Social enterprise

  

  €3mn impact investment in platform for vintage designer fashion

  Posted in category:

  • Social enterprise

  13 Sep 2021

  Dutch impact investors have spied an opportunity to take sustainable fashion to the next level. Amsterdam-based platform The Next Closet (TNC) raised €3mn in growth capital last week.

  

  Written by:

  • Christian Nielsen

• In depth: Efforts to transform the fashion sector remain underfunded but opportunities abound

  Posted in category:

  • Climate & environment,
  • Social impact

  

  In depth: Efforts to transform the fashion sector remain underfunded but opportunities abound

  Posted in category:

  • Climate & environment,
  • Social impact

  27 Jun 2022

  Experts from the Good Fashion Fund, Fashion for Good, Laudes Foundation and Apparel Impact Institute talk to Impact Investor about breaking the barriers to investment and why the opportunities should not be ignored

  

  Written by:

  • Karolina Adamkiewicz