Future Positive Capital is betting its venture capital on companies that can be game changers in solving the world’s biggest societal challenges. Their investment in climate-intelligence platform Cervest illustrates this.
Nasdaq, the tech stock exchange, has teamed up with seven specialist ESG/impact data providers for a new platform providing investors with a wide range of comparable data sets.
Unlike climate change, the biodiversity crisis is not so much on investors’ radar yet. WWF lobbies hard to encourage investors to take the issue seriously. Its latest report assesses tools measuring impact on biodiversity.
A new climate fund launched by Schroders and BlueOrchard is tapping into the growing appetite for emerging market debt and investors’ demand for stricter ESG norms.
No need to reinvent the wheel – in The Expert View impact investing pros share their lessons learned. Nico Blaauw tells us how the pandemic changed fundraising practices at Goodwell Investments.
Impact investing needs to be more accessible to wider groups of investors, says Stephen Muers, the new chief executive officer of Big Society Capital, a leading UK impact investor.
A growing number of social enterprises sees crowdfunding as an alternative to seed capital. We talked to three small investors about how they choose their impact investments.
The pandemic has rewired the way people think about their power as consumers. It has also supercharged ambitions for circular value chains and sustainable investment and trade in general.
The Upright Project, the Helsinki-based tech company measuring net impact of companies and industries, is making waves internationally with its admittedly ‘ridiculous ambition’.
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