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Policy & Finance
The landscape for impact investing in South Asia
The Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), in partnership with Dalberg Global Development Advisors, published the full release of The Landscape for Impact Investing in South Asia, a "state of the …
Policy & Finance
CLEAR Info: Investment strategies incorporating environmental operational risk appraisal data
CLEAR Info is a project that aims to demonstrate a system for integrating company and site level environmental data into decision making. Part of this involves using operational risk appraisal …
Policy & Finance
Flagship programmes: Focusing corporate social investment for impact
Seventy per cent of companies surveyed by Corporate Citizenship expect to move towards a flagship programme approach to corporate social investment in the next 2 years, up from just 12 …
The EAPF commissioned Trucost to assess and analyse sixteen of their active and passive equity investment portfolios, with regard to their exposure to the embedded carbon emissions within fossil fuel …
Climate change creates a variety of risks for investors. The United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) highlighted climate and carbon risks in its 2013 report 'Portfolio Carbon: Measuring, …
Brazil's financial sector is dependent on natural capital to support economic growth and ensure future returns for investors. Nature's assets are abundant in Brazil, from its farmland, forests and energy …
Green bonds offer the potential to raise billions in capital to fund renewable energy projects and a host of other sustainable technologies to enable the transition to a sustainable economy. …
Manufacturing
Cradle to cradle impact study: Technical report
Trucost was commissioned by the Institute to determine the impacts of Cradle to Cradle Certified product certification, and define a Framework that assists current and future stakeholders to carry out …
The eighth annual State of Green Business report continues GreenBiz's tradition of opening a window into how, and how much, companies are improving their environmental performance and how much their …
Policy & Finance
Engaging business on human rights: Issues for responsible and inclusive value chains (2015)
Through a series of interviews with CSR Asia's Strategic Partners and other expert stakeholders this paper outlines some of the contemporary human rights risks that are facing businesses who operate …
Policy & Finance
Creating shared value through inclusive business strategies
This paper demonstrates how it is possible to create shared value through inclusive business (IB) strategies and outlines practical steps which can be taken to develop an effective IB strategy.
Policy & Finance
Multi-Stakeholder initiatives: Cooperating to achieve responsible and inclusive business (2015)
Multi-stakeholder initiatives (MSIs) can bring together the skills, expertise and resources to tackle global challenges and contribute to sustainable development.
