DAVOS-KLOSTERS, Switzerland, January 25, 2016 (Maximpact News) – At the World Economic Forum in Davos last week, 2,500 business, government and civil society leaders from over 100 countries visualized a future rich with technological advances as they addressed the forum’s theme, “Mastering the Fourth Industrial Revolution.” On January 20, at the opening of the four-day […]
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Closing the Loop: EU Quarrels Over Circular Economy Plan
BRUSSELS, Belgium, December 30, 2015 (Maximpact News) – The European Commission has adopted a new Circular Economy Package it says will help European businesses and consumers contribute to “closing the loop” of product lifecycles through greater recycling and re-use. But Members of the European Parliament are critical of the new package. The Commission says its […]
UN Foundation: Now We Must Move with Urgency to Deliver on Promise of Climate Agreement
PRESS RELEASE – UN Foundation: After much deliberation, an agreement has finally been reached from the UN Climate Conference in Paris. This legally binding agreement will call ambitious climate action on behalf of all member states, to ensure a sustainable future for us all. Below a statement from the United Nations Foundation regarding this agreement. […]
Climate Crisis! Energy Efficiency to the Rescue
PARIS, France, November 30, 2015 (Maximpact News) – “Mobilising energy efficiency is an urgent priority,” says Fatih Birol, executive director of the International Energy Agency (IEA). “To transition to the sustainable energy system of the future, we need to decouple economic growth from greenhouse gas emissions. Energy efficiency is the most important “arrow in the […]
World’s Business Leaders Buy In to Sustainability
By Sunny Lewis SAN FRANCISCO, California, November 18, 2015 (Maximpact News) – Best business practices, collaborative approaches to sustainable development and inspiring ways to build a better world were front and center as 1,000 business, government and civil society leaders gathered in San Francisco earlier this month for their annual Business for Social Responsibility Conference. […]
Israel, Jordan, Palestine Unite for Jordan River
By Sunny Lewis TEL-AVIV, Israel, October 23, 2015 (Maximpact News) – The Jordan River, famous in story and song, unique in its natural wealth, is now threatened by excessive water diversion and contamination. In this arid region torn by many differences and struggles, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) from Israel, Jordan and Palestine are working together to […]
Financing Sustainable Development: a ‘Quiet Revolution’ Underway
By Sunny Lewis LIMA, Peru, October 12, 2015 (ENS) – The world’s top bankers are getting comfortable with what World Bank Vice President and Special Climate Envoy Rachel Kyte calls “a new generation of policy innovations that aim to ensure the financial system serves the needs of inclusive, environmentally-sustainable, economic development.” At the International Monetary […]
China Plans World’s Largest Carbon Market to Curb Climate Change
By Sunny Lewis BEIJING, China, October 7, 2015 (Maximpact News) – Within two years China will open a national market-based cap-and-trade system to limit greenhouse gas emissions from some of its largest industrial sectors, President Xi Jinping announced late last month during his visit to the United States. Carbon emission levels will be capped and […]
Biggest Banks Back Strong Global Climate Deal
By Sunny Lewis NEW YORK, New York, October 2, 2015 (Maximpact News) – Six of the largest U.S. banks have called for a strong, legally-binding universal climate agreement to emerge from the United Nations Paris climate conference in December. The big six – Bank of America, Citi, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley and Wells […]
Aligning Institutional Investment With Sustainable Development
By Sunny Lewis NEW YORK, New York, September 22, 2015 (Maximpact News) – The largest public pension fund in the United States, the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS), with upwards of US$300 billion in assets, takes sustainability seriously. Just days ahead of a United Nations summit in New York that will adopt new Sustainable […]
World Forestry Congress: Forests Are ‘More Than Trees’
by Sunny Lewis DURBAN, South Africa, September 16, 2015 (Maximpact News) – Investing in forestry means investing not only in trees but in people and in sustainable development, delegates to the 14th World Forestry Congress in Durban affirmed last week. Held with the theme “Forests and People: Investing in a Sustainable Future,” the week-long meeting […]
Asian Development Bank Backs Financial Access for SMEs
By Sunny Lewis MANILA, Philippines, September 11, 2015 (Maximpact News) – The backbone of Asia’s economies are small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), but these companies need better access to finance to grow and generate new jobs for the region, says a new Asian Development Bank report. The Asia SME Finance Monitor 2014, which assesses 20 […]
Social Investors vs. Social Businesses: Who will win the struggle for the future of SRI investing?
We all like to talk about how the social, responsible and impact (SRI) investing sector is growing—and current research indicates that it is flourishing, with more capital and a wider range of investors now entering the field. All that is good—and it’s what we’ve all be working for. Yet if there’s one thing experience has […]