Leading Nicaraguan microfinance institution Financiera FAMA announced its latest investment round. Prominent global investors Triodos Investment Management and FMO joined anchor investor and global nonprofit Accion to support the company’s efforts to provide microfinance services to financially underserved families and […]
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De Amerikaanse denktank en burgerbeweging New America heeft de zogenaamde ‘Bretton Wood II Leaders List’ gepubliceerd van ‘most responsible’ investors/asset owners in de wereld. De Nederlandse pensioenbeheerders APG en PGGM prijken op deze zeer selectieve lijst van 25. Over de lijst […]
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Afgelopen maandag 23 oktober, is de heer Herman Mulder bevorderd tot Officier in de Orde van Oranje-Nassau. Hij kreeg deze onderscheiding uitgereikt door locoburgemeester Simone Kukenheim tijdens een bijeenkomst van Worldconnectors in Amsterdam. Mulder heeft zich het afgelopen decennium onvermoeibaar […]
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Closing the gap between existing and necessary climate finance: innovative climate finance for developing countries by a cooperation of MDBs, central banks and the private sector. To meet the 1.5°C limit agreed in December 2015 in Paris it is necessary […]
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ING was again named to CDP’s Climate A-list of 117 companies leading on climate change action. ING is among 5% of companies participating in CDP’s climate change programme to be featured on the 2017 Climate A-List. This recognises our actions […]
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René van de Kieft was keynote speaker at the United Nations Environment Programme – Finance Initiative (UNEP FI). UNEP FI is a partnership between United Nations Environment Programme and the global financial sector created in the context of the 1992 […]
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De finalisten van de Nederlandse MoMo Challenge 2017 zijn bekend geworden. De finale zal op het 17de Nationaal Sustainability Congres plaatsvinden (9 november a.s.) waarbij de finalisten voor een panel en andere belangstellenden gaan pitchen. MoMo is een initiatief van IUCN NL, […]
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More entities are looking to green bonds to fund sustainable projects, and demand from investors is keeping pace. The upshot: Returns keep pace as well. Companies, municipalities and countries are getting serious about building a low-carbon future, and they’re increasingly […]
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Bedrijven zijn non-stop op zoek naar manieren om een duurzame bedrijfsvoering te kunnen doen. Dat is goed ook. Duurzaamheid is nog nooit zo belangrijk geweest als vandaag de dag, vooral omdat er steeds meer controle op is en bedrijven er […]
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GRESB, the global ESG benchmark for real assets, today launched the GRESB Real Estate Pre-Assessment: A standalone ESG evaluation for companies and funds that are capital raising, undergoing due-diligence, have a short hold strategy and those that have recently begun […]
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During UNGA week Convergence and the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution launched the report Impact Bonds in Developing Countries: Early learnings from the field. As of August 1, 2017, there were nearly 90 impact bonds contracted in […]
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Nearly three-quarters of investment professionals worldwide (73 percent) take environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) factors into consideration in the investment process, according to a CFA Institute ESG Survey, Global Perceptions of Environmental, Social and Governance Investing, conducted in May 2017. […]
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