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The Brief | September 23, 2022
The Week in impact investing: Trillions
TGIF, Agents of Impact! 🗣 Opportunity knocks. Policy signals shifted this year’s Climate Week conversation from risks, costs and obstacles, to growth, solutions …
The Brief | September 22, 2022
The Brief: Nature’s gold vault, workers’ comp, consumer carbon footprint, battery swapping for two-wheelers, boosting returns at emerging-market impact funds
Greetings, Agents of Impact! 👋 Agents of Impact Call No. 45: Creative capital for gender-smart investments. Women-led funds in emerging markets are finding …
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Climate Finance | September 22, 2022
A safe, low-carbon way to store your gold: Leave it in the ground
What’s the most eco-friendly way to mine gold? Not to mine it. Nature’s Vault, a blockchain-based finance company headquartered in Singapore, is buying …
ImpactAlpha Open | September 20, 2022
ImpactAlpha Open: Patagonia exits to stakeholders + more
TGIT, Agents of Impact – this is Dennis Price, ImpactAlpha’s chief impact officer, with this week’s ImpactAlpha Open. The ImpactAlpha team huddled in New York this past weekend. Top of our conversation: How …
The Brief | September 16, 2022
The Week in Impact Investing: Bridges
TGIF, Agents of Impact! 🗣 Mind the gaps. There is a tendency to overestimate change in the short term and underestimate it in …
Delhi, India
The Brief | September 15, 2022
The Brief: India’s climate investing tipping point, profitable smallholder farms, Ethic’s growth round, green exchange, carbon-free crypto
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: Impact in India Overheard at India’s ‘Impact 2022’: Climate investing tipping point. India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi promised …
The Brief | September 12, 2022
The Brief: Climate finance tracker, investing in oceans, gender-smart in Africa, coding classes in Vietnam, the climate king?
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: Catalytic Capital The Climate Finance Tracker’s data-driven map for catalytic climate investors (Q&A). Where is capital most impactful …
ImpactAlpha Open | August 30, 2022
ImpactAlpha Open: The ESG counter-counterattack
It’s Tuesday, Agents of Impact! Welcome to ImpactAlpha Open, a weekly drumbeat of impact careers, connections and capital. 📧 Get ImpactAlphaOpen in your inbox every Tuesday. Sign …
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The Brief | August 29, 2022
The Brief: Concrete steps to decarbonize cement, reforestation video game, diverse climate suppliers, India’s smallholder farmers, community solar + storage
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: Climate Tech New incentives spur building industry to take concrete steps to decarbonize cement. Discussions of “deep decarbonization” …
Dealflow | August 29, 2022
Carbon Counts raises $7 million to gamify climate change
ImpactAlpha, Aug. 29 – EverForest, the first game from upstart game company Carbon Counts, aims to help plant 100 million real trees on …
ImpactAlpha Open | August 23, 2022
ImpactAlpha Open No. 5: Climate and crypto
Happy Tuesday, Agents of Impact! 🗣️ It’s been a month since we launched ImpactAlpha Open, our free weekly newsletter of careers, connections and capital for Agents …
The Brief | August 18, 2022
The Brief: Green bank mobilization, community climate finance, nature-based carbon credits, logistics in Africa, good nursing jobs, solar tracking tech
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: Climate and Community Community lenders look to carve out a role for themselves in the new green bank …
A healthy mangrove ecosystem
Climate Finance | August 18, 2022
IFC partners with Aspiration in $10 million fund to lift quality of carbon credits
ImpactAlpha, August 18 – Forest projects that don’t remove carbon. Protection for forests that aren’t threatened. The low quality of many of the credits …
The Brief | July 14, 2022
The Brief: Sri Lanka’s crisis, community solar, Black tech founders, reducing cow burps, financing small businesses in the U.K., six strategies for scaling
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: Political Risk Is a green transition the cause – or the solution – in Sri Lanka’s crisis? It …
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Return on Inclusion | July 14, 2022
Five Black tech founders join Northwestern Mutual’s accelerator
ImpactAlpha, July 14 — Among the startups in the new cohort are Nashville-based Xcellent Life, which helps identify health issues through an AI-based …
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Originals | June 27, 2022
Seven Calls: Agents of Impact on carbon pricing, political risk, climate adaptation, responsible fintech and more
ImpactAlpha, June 27 – ImpactAlpha’s spring season of Agents of Impact Calls spanned a period of tumult in the financial markets: instability in …
The Brief | June 10, 2022
This week in Impact Investing: Out
TGIF, Agents of Impact! Coming up and coming out. The backlash to stakeholder capitalism and environmental, social and governance investing, or ESG, has …
Call Recording | June 3, 2022
Call No. 43: How responsible fintech in Africa provides resilience in a downturn (video)
ImpactAlpha, June 3 – Just as investment in financial inclusion in Africa was really ramping up, a market downturn threatens to slow progress. Or …
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Emerging and Growth Markets | June 1, 2022
What’s at stake in African fintech as the venture capital market cools
ImpactAlpha, June 1 – The excitement—and volume of capital—surrounding African venture capital is facing a downturn. One sector sure to feel the investor retreat: …
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The Brief | June 1, 2022
The Brief: Hop on The Call: Financial inclusion in Africa, catalytic capital to cut food waste, Aavishkaar’s carbon fund, sizing impact investing worldwide
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: Fintech in Africa What’s at stake in African fintech as the venture capital market cools. The excitement – …
The Brief | May 25, 2022
The Brief: ‘Impact on’ in volatile markets, pharmacies in Southeast Asia, carbon + crypto, on-demand EV charging, grid emissions
Greetings, Agents of Impact, Situational awareness. The Uvalde, Texas, shooting is the year’s 212th mass shooting in the U.S. – and the 27th …
Climate Finance | May 25, 2022
a16z leads Flowcarbon’s $70 million round to improve voluntary carbon market transparency
ImpactAlpha, May 25 – Carbon + crypto is a hot combination. Look at the boldface names behind Flowcarbon, a startup that tokenizes certified carbon …
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The Brief | April 18, 2022
The Brief: Equity in climate resilience, maternal health in Brazil, Stripe backs Sacca for carbon capture, nimble solar installations, the circular economy
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: Agents of Impact Call Mitigation x adaptation x equity = climate resilience. Just as the COVID pandemic massively …
The Brief | March 16, 2022
The Brief: Proxy preview, modular mini-homes, refugee jobs, micro-insurance in Ghana, donor-advised impact investing
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: Proxy Preview Emboldened shareholders ready fights with management on human rights, climate and political spending. Grab the popcorn. …
The Brief | March 3, 2022
The Brief: Age of adaptation, Serena’s ventures, forest-based carbon, e-delivery in Latin America, social bonds for racial equity
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Agents of Impact Call: Operationalizing impact and ESG inside the enterprise. Want to protect your enterprise from accusations of …
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Climate Finance | March 3, 2022
NCX secures $50 million to expand its market for forest-based carbon offsets
ImpactAlpha, March 3 — NCX, formerly known as SilviaTerra, connects landowners who commit to not cutting down their trees with corporations looking to …
The Brief | March 1, 2022
The Brief: Europe’s green shock, climate breakthroughs and climate resilience, agtech in India, digitizing solar energy, hydrogen sensors
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Call No. 39: Operationalizing impact and ESG inside the enterprise. Cathy Clark of Duke’s Fuqua School of Business returns …
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Climate and Clean Tech | March 1, 2022
Aera VC raises $30 million – and launches a DAO – for climate breakthroughs
ImpactAlpha, Mar. 1 – Derek Handley, who left Richard Branson’s B Team to launch Aera in 2016, has “sharpened the strategy and dropped almost …
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Policy Corner | February 28, 2022
Sanctions are only the beginning as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine slams global networks of capital and talent
ImpactAlpha, Feb. 28 – Western allies will bar some Russian banks from the SWIFT international system for cross-border payments. Western nations will also sanction …
The Brief | February 28, 2022
The Brief: After the invasion, African agri-businesses, upskilling tech workers, community solar, monitoring emissions
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Call No. 39: Operationalizing impact and ESG inside the enterprise. On one of last year’s most popular Calls, Cathy …
The Brief | February 25, 2022
The Week in Impact Investing: Disclosure
TGIF, Agents of Impact! 🗣 Sunlight. In the weeks leading up to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, U.S. President Biden made the decision to …
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The Brief | February 24, 2022
The Brief: Demand for carbon credits, ESG metaverse, battery recycling in India, small farmers in emerging markets, memo to the Impact Task Force
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Dealflow: Carbon Markets TPG Rise rolls up Element Markets and Bluesource to go big on carbon credits. The impact …
The Brief | February 18, 2022
The Week in Impact Investing: Perceptions
TGIF, Agents of Impact! We’re taking a Brief break on Monday for the U.S. holiday. We’ll be back in your inboxes on Tuesday, …
Apr 25th to Apr 29th, 2022
Island Finance Forum
The Island Finance Forum brings together leading experts in the fields of sustainable finance and development, to exchange knowledge in order to drive …
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The Brief | February 15, 2022
The Brief: Impact-linked equity, training VCs of color, insect protein, infrastructure exits, healthcare in emerging markets, permanent supportive housing
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Call No. 38: Public policy. Private capital. Public good. The Call will key in on opportunities to engage with …
Institutional Impact | February 14, 2022
If crypto is the Wild West of finance, impact investing is the country club
Editor’s note: ImpactAlpha contributing editor Imogen Rose-Smith, a longtime senior writer for Institutional Investor, contributes a bi-weekly column on the policies, practices and …
The Brief | February 14, 2022
The Brief: Evolution of fiduciary duty, emerging secondary markets, Brazil’s favelas, Nuveen’s impact fund, financial health innovation in Mexico and Morocco
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Agents of Impact Call No. 38: Policies to catalyze private capital for public good. Impact investors are continuing to …
The Brief | February 11, 2022
The Week in impact investing: Positive externalities
🗣 Virtuous circles. Solar panels, electric vehicles and batteries already are riding declining cost curves. The rising price of carbon, especially in Europe, …
Call Recording | February 11, 2022
Call No. 37: Ramping up the supply of carbon reduction to meet the urgent demand (video)
ImpactAlpha, Feb. 11 – ”$100 a ton?” exclaimed CDP’s Paula DiPerna on ImpactAlpha’s Agents of Impact Call this week. “I should be popping champagne.” …
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Climate Finance | February 8, 2022
Positive externalities: Carrots as well as sticks for the carbon era
ImpactAlpha, Feb. 8 – Putting a price on carbon is only the beginning. With prices on Europe’s emissions trading scheme topping $100 a ton …
The Brief | February 8, 2022
The Brief: Today’s Carbon Call, positive externalities, impact securities, at-home primary care, Bitwise in Denver, Amplify in Toronto
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Hop on today’s Call: Carbon is $100 a ton. Now what? The rising price of carbon is affecting corporate …
The Brief | February 4, 2022
The Week in Impact Investing: Horizons
TGIF, Agents of Impact! 🗣 Slope of enlightenment. Students of tech’s “hype cycle” may recognize the same pattern in impact investing. From their …
The Brief | January 28, 2022
The Week in Impact Investing: Performance
TGIF, Agents of Impact! 🗣 Proof of impact. Bitcoins are verified by a cryptographic approach known as “proof of work.” Other blockchains use …
The Brief | January 27, 2022
The Brief: Crypto’s climate play, digitalizing the Philippines’ sari-saris, impact verification, Verdane’s impact fund, Deval Patrick’s next move
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Agents of Impact Call No. 37: Real-world effects of the rising price of carbon. With a ton of carbon …
Climate Finance | January 27, 2022
Climate is a crypto play as action moves from TradFi to DeFi to ReFi
ImpactAlpha, Jan. 27 – If blockchain was a solution in search of a problem, it may have found it in climate change. The …