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Mackenzie Scott: Giving Wealth Away
Mackenzie Scott, the third-richest woman in the world, last year started giving her wealth away. “There are lots of resources each of us can pull from our safes to share with others,” she said. “I have a disproportionate amount of
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Boost R&D to Ensure Sustainable Post-Covid Recovery: Economists
Increased investment in research and development is crucial to post-covid recovery, say economists calling for lasting improvements in the field. The European Commission’s €750bn Covid-19 Recovery Fund should help the bloc to hit its longstanding – but so far consistently
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Carole M. Laible: Chief Executive Officer, Domini Impact Investments LLC
Carole M. Laible is on a mission: to harness the power of finance to build a better world. Since joining Domini Impact Investments in 1997, she has contributed to making that ideal a reality. Under her leadership as CEO, the
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Amy Domini: Founder & Chair, Domini Impact Investments LLC
Amy Domini’s career began with a question: Can you do good by buying stocks? Thirty years since posing that thought and launching the first socially and environmentally screened index, the Domini 400 Social Index, Domini has proven that not only
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Domini Impact Investments: CEO Carole M. Laible on ‘Investing for Good’
It began with a question. Can you do good by buying stocks? Thirty years since posing that thought and launching the first socially and environmentally screened index, the Domini 400 Social Index, Amy Domini has proven that not only can
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World Bank: Pandemic Recovery is an Opportunity to Step Up Climate Change Action in Europe and Central Asia
2021 needs to be the year that climate change urgency truly entered the collective consciousness and lasting action followed. In the same way the effects of climate damage are often described as irreversible, so too is the movement calling for
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Making Science: ‘Top 20’ Goal of Digital Marketing Firm with Global Reach
The winner of the 2021 award for Best Digital Growth Strategy belongs to Making Science, the European technology and digital marketing consultancy. The company, headquartered in Madrid, specialises in e-commerce and digital transformation and has undertaken a series of acquisitions
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NIBULON: To Feed the World
According to the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), by 2050 the world’s population is likely to exceed nine billion – resulting in a 50 percent increase in global demand for agricultural products. The role of the agrarian sector in
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A Possible Tug-of-war Between the Fed and the Markets
The projections for United States GDP released by the Federal Reserve on March 17, pointed to a growth rate of 6.5% in 2021, well above December’s 4.2% forecast. Congressional approval of the Biden administration’s $1.9 trillion fiscal package and the
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Marcos Preto, CEO of Agrocortex: Unlocking Value of Forestry Projects
REDD projects fight logging and environmental destruction of the Earth’s ‘green lungs’ – the amazing and irreplaceable rainforests of the Amazon. Voluntary carbon credits are in high demand, increasingly so over the past year, and there are growing opportunities for
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