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Press Releases / Impact Investment Exchange (Asia) Pte Ltd

Asian impact investing firm IIX unveils a new look and goes global

Singapore-based firm, Impact Investment Exchange (IIX), celebrates 8 years of pioneering and growing the impact investing space through innovative finance by unveiling a new global identity with a rev...

14 Feb 2017

Asian impact investing firm IIX unveils a new look and goes global

Dave Chen, chairman and founder of Equilibrium Capital, talks at Ecosperity. "Sustainability is oftentimes about the little things," says Chen. Image: Temasek

News / Policy & Finance

Green finance: The hunt for pennies on the pavement

...equities or fixed income. Risk is just part and parcel of the investment game," says Chen. The more important question is, do investors view sustainability as an economic trend and an economic shift? ...

27 Jun 2017

Green finance: The hunt for pennies on the pavement

Press Releases / South Pole Group

South Pole Group and Solactive launch low-carbon index family

Solactive AG in collaboration with South Pole Group has launched a low-carbon equity index family. The low-carbon index family will cover global and regional exposures to carbon, and aside from the li...

25 Feb 2016

South Pole Group and Solactive launch low-carbon index family

News / Policy & Finance

Sustainalytics pulls out of Singapore

The global consultancy that helped the Singapore stock exchange launch its first ever sustainability index has closed its Singapore office. Amsterdam-headquartered Sustainalytics was behind the launc...

12 Jan 2017

Sustainalytics pulls out of Singapore

Opinion / Cities

How affordable are the most livable cities in Asia and the Pacific?

A livable city is what most of us want. Green parks, thriving local markets, good schools, reliable hospitals. But how affordable are livable cities? This is a crucial question, because what are all t...

30 Mar 2016

How affordable are the most livable cities in Asia and the Pacific?

News / Food & Agriculture

Solar energy and salt water power vegetable farms in the desert

With scorching summer temperatures and little rainfall, the barren scrublands around the port of Aqaba in Jordan, one of the world's most arid countries, might seem ill suited to cultivating cucumbers...

3 Apr 2017

Solar energy and salt water power vegetable farms in the desert

News / Carbon & Climate

U.S., China officially join Paris climate agreement

On 3 September, U.S. President Barack Obama and President Xi Jinping of China formally joined the Paris Agreement, committing the world’s two biggest economies to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and...

5 Sep 2016

U.S., China officially join Paris climate agreement

Opinion / Green Buildings

Why natural light matters in the workplace

Over the past two years there has been a flurry of reports from the World Green Building Council, the International Well Building Institute and Human Spaces exploring the importance of our innate conn...

18 Apr 2016

Why natural light matters in the workplace

Press Releases / EarthCheck

EarthCheck releases first global CSR tool for tourism industry

With so much focus on environmental and economic sustainability in recent years, social sustainability has often been forgotten or overlooked by many tourism businesses. Social and corporate governan...

16 Aug 2016

EarthCheck releases first global CSR tool for tourism industry

News / Energy

How to make renewable energy work for the economy and environment

The transition from fossil fuels to cleaner and more sustainable renewable energy sources is the most pressing challenge in the global energy industry and for the private sector, built environment and...

6 Jun 2017

How to make renewable energy work for the economy and environment

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Get climate money to those who need it

Thanks to recent political changes in some developed countries, climate finance for developing countries is likely to be scarcer than was forecast during the heady days of the Paris Agreement in 2015....

21 Mar 2017

Get climate money to those who need it

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Navigating uncharted waters: The EU referendum, the spirit of Paris, and the SDGs

Last Thursday's vote by the UK public in a referendum to leave the European Union (EU) is a seismic shock to British, European and global politics. This is a difficult moment to write about it. Everyb...

28 Jun 2016

Navigating uncharted waters: The EU referendum, the spirit of Paris, and the SDGs

Press Releases / Impact Investment Exchange (Asia) Pte Ltd

IIX & Shujog host the first Impact Investment Trailblazer Showcase

On December 8th, the inaugural Impact Investment Trailblazer Showcase, hosted by the Impact Investment Exchange (IIX) and the Shujog ACTS program with support from United States Agency for Internation...

22 Dec 2016

IIX & Shujog host the first Impact Investment Trailblazer Showcase

Press Releases / Messe Frankfurt Trade Fairs India Pvt. Ltd.

Key environmental concerns to be taken up at National Summit on Water

The National Summit on Water, Wastewater treatment, Solid Waste Management and Solar Energy will be underway this week on 26th August, 2016 at Le Meridien, New Delhi. Hosting top officials from Minis...

26 Aug 2016

Key environmental concerns to be taken up at National Summit on Water

News / Cities

Vienna ranks high on almost every urban quality-of-life list. Here’s why.

When the human resources consultancy Mercer publishes its annual quality-of-life rankings for cities around the world, Vienna’s place at the top is practically automatic. The Austrian capital has rank...

19 Aug 2016

Vienna ranks high on almost every urban quality-of-life list. Here’s why.

China involved in coal projects in BRI countries

News / Policy & Finance

China’s Belt and Road Initiative still pushing coal

Officials and leaders from over 110 countries gathered in Beijing on May 14 to 15 for the first ever Belt and Road Forum. China’s ambitious attempt to boost economic growth across a vast area stretchi...

16 May 2017

China’s Belt and Road Initiative still pushing coal

Opinion / Policy & Finance

Do palm oil financiers care about sustainability?

Within the sustainability sector, finance is increasingly being seen as a powerful lever to help companies “green” their operations. In response to NGO and consumer pressure, a growing number of corpo...

3 Feb 2016

Do palm oil financiers care about sustainability?

Press Releases / BERNAMA Media Relations and Event Management (MREM)

MetLife is first US insurer to achieve carbon neutrality

MetLife, Inc. (NYSE: MET) today announced that it has achieved its 2015 goal of carbon neutrality, becoming the first US-based insurer to do so. MetLife achieved carbon neutrality by integrating sust...

27 Feb 2017

MetLife is first US insurer to achieve carbon neutrality

Sundarban women in Bangladesh sell reed mats

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

Nature: the decisive solution for the climate change crisis

Near the Sundarbans, Bangladesh, home to the largest mangrove forest in the world, Promila makes her living by making mats out of a grass-like wetlands plant called ‘reed’. Depending on size, these ma...

2 Jan 2017

Nature: the decisive solution for the climate change crisis

Opinion / Carbon & Climate

The state of green business in 2017

2016 was undoubtedly a year of change. Aside from major political shifts, there were also significant shifts in climate action. The implications of the Paris Agreement at COP21 filtered through to bot...

17 Feb 2017

The state of green business in 2017

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