Impact Investing
Accounting for Climate Exposure
A broader view of the impact of climate change can offer mainstream and impact investors a competitive edge.
Tag: Environmental Sustainability
Environment
There Is No Such Thing as a Green Product
Touting products like LEDs and recycled plastic packaging as “green” is misleading, because it fails to account for their effects on markets and consumer behavior and for the resulting environmental consequences. The authors offer what they say is a better approach: measuring the overall "net green" impact of the product.
Measurement & Evaluation
The Wild West of Measuring Corporate Sustainability
It’s a confusing time for measuring corporate social and environmental impact, but the pioneers who take it seriously, set ambitious goals, and report accurately will come out ahead.
Impact Investing
Impact Investing: Four Opportunities for 2016
Let’s be ambitious about using innovative financing to help sort out global supply chains, provide catalytic capital for energy transition, and link talent in emerging markets to online marketplaces.
Economic Development
Encouraging Innovation Everywhere
Youth voices in resource-constrained environments suggest that understanding socio-economic context is an important factor in encouraging innovation.
Social Issues
From Sustainability to Abundance
Sustainability’s vagueness and scarcity orientation may be preventing the future it seeks to create. The time has come to adopt a new mindset.
Human Rights
Land Rights: From Awareness to Action
The new emphasis on land rights in the global development agenda is a positive step, but could be meaningless without significant shifts in support.
Foundations
Looking Beyond Impact Investing to Support Climate Solutions
A four-point framework for funders to advance a low-carbon future using their entire endowment.
Energy
Reflections from Fukushima
Confronting the risks and rewards of the world’s largest low-carbon energy source.