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The job market for sustainable investment roles has become so overheated that some firms are being priced out of the market for the best talent.
Impact investment funds, however, can still pick and choose. “I’ve got a plethora of candidates that really want to get into impact.”

Are you looking for renewable energy ventures in Africa? This week, you can shop around to find the right impact businesses to invest in at two virtual EU events.

Bertrand Piccard has found 1,000 technologies to save the planet. Now he just wants to get them adopted.

No need to reinvent the wheel: in our regular column ‘The Expert’ impact investing pros share their lessons from the field. This week, Alexander Gangnus of Dennemeyer IP Consulting on assessing impact in company valuations.

Lennard Zwart was hospitalized for two months to combat a nasty corona infection. Once back on his feet, the microfinance startup he had invested in had “a shocking” surprise: It had used his investment for a completely different business idea.

To learn more about the different types of impact investing, we spoke to the European Venture Philanthropy Association, which works with foundations to explore how they can use all of their assets for social good.

A joint ‘green hydrogen’ bid by three public-private research and innovation partnerships in the Netherlands won a conditional €73mn commitment from the €20bn National Growth Fund last week.

At the grand old age of 74, Hermann Schreier (with his wife and a couple of slightly younger Dutch friends), has thrown himself into what he hopes will become a market leader for buses powered by hydrogen fuel cells.

The lack of affordable housing is a growing problem across Europe. The continent needs to invest in more decent and sustainable homes. An investment in an ‘energy-positive’ residential tower is showing one way of how this can be done.

No need to reinvent the wheel: in our regular column ‘The expert’ impact investing pros share their lessons from the field. This week, Michiel Hillen of EMSA on how to invest for impact in African companies.