Aug 15 2018
Perspective
In 2007, the term “impact investing” was coined by The Rockefeller Foundation, putting a name to investments made with the intention of generating both financial return and social and/or environmental …
Mar 26 2018
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As the first city within the 100 Resilient Cities to publicly issue environmental impact bonds, the City of Atlanta is boldly advancing a movement to make cities more resilient. Being first …
Feb 07 2018
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In December, The Rockefeller Foundation President Dr. Rajiv Shah invited me to talk with him about next generation impact during his first visit to Southeast Asia. As a young and …
Feb 01 2018
Perspective
https://youtu.be/fxajBS9dPXI Seven trillion dollars. That’s right, trillion. The panel of judges sitting in the front row at the Kellogg-Morgan Stanley Sustainable Investing Challenge (KMSSIC) represented seven trillion dollars of investor capital, …
Jan 22 2018
While impact investing has grown to an over $100 billion global industry, the scarce evidence of the social and environmental returns of these investments poses a threat to the continued …
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Jan 19 2018
Perspective
The Asia-Pacific is a land of promise.
Even as the region does continue to face real economic and social challenges – for example, its mushrooming megacities, which are seeing the world’s …
Jan 16 2018
Perspective
While many of us have penciled in our resolutions for the next year, a group of innovative thinkers are aiming a bit beyond 2018—achieving the goals laid out in the …
Nov 08 2017
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Nothing anymore…as of November 7th, the United States is the only nation in the world not committed to the Paris climate agreement. Recent announcements from Syria and Nicaragua to officially …
Sep 19 2017
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Not quite two years into the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), it becomes ever clearer that the cost to achieve these ambitious targets will be enormous. Yet the …
Sep 11 2017
Perspective
Large-scale affordable housing projects, wind farms, and small-scale diagnostic health clinics are just some examples of the wave of impact enterprises that have been emerging over the last decade, seeking …