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Social Innovation Summit 2013: What's Next?
What happens when 800 social innovators get together to share ideas? I recently attended the 2013 Social Innovation Summit, a two-day conference held in New York at JPMorgan and the General Assembly of the United Nations. This biannual conference launched in 2010 by Landmark Ventures, a New York-based strategic and financial advisory firm, the summit brings together venture capitalists, social entrepreneurs, Fortune 500 executives, government officials and heads of foundations discuss and share innovative solutions to some of today's most challenging social issues, including education, global healthcare, veterans, women and girls, envir...
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The Everchanging Cost of the Sun: Solar Energy's Sustainable Finance Problem
The sun produces enough energy in one second to fuel our current needs for 500,000 years. So why don't you have a sola...
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Getting Ready for Its Rio+20 Debut: The Natural Capital Declaration
In the run-up to Rio+20, more finance sector CEOs have made a commitment to support the preservation of ecosystem servi...
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Novo Nordisk Wins Best Sustainability Performance at 2012 Social Innovation Awards
The Danish healthcare firm continues its march to sustainability, collecting another honor along the way Justmeans hos...
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Transparency International to Rio+20: Address Corruption in Climate Financing
With Rio+20 around the corner, the leading international development corruption monitoring group warns of failure if me...
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Shortlist Announced for 2012 FT/IFC Sustainable Finance Awards
"This is a very impressive list of nominees, combining institutions we know well from previous years with new names tha...
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Monsieur Hollande's Opus: Sustainable Finance and a Socialist France
A Socialist in the Élysée Palace. What does that mean for sustainable finance? In defeating Nicholas Sarkozy in the Fr...
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Arrivederci, Cross-Shareholding: Mario Monti Breaks Up Italy's Corporate Boardrooms
The technocratic leader looks at the dangerous concentration of power across Italian financial institutions and says, "...
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Private Investment, Public Good: Secretary Clinton Champions "Global Impact Economy"
"This is a great moment to look at where we stand in the world in the pursuit of economic growth and prosperity that is...
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The United Nations Calls for a New Asia-Pacific Energy Compact
"Connecting the dots between the challenges of water, food, and energy security lies at the heart of sustainable develo...
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When It Comes to Building a Green Economy, Time Is Money
If the G-20 invested 2% of GDP in a green economy, 48 million jobs would be created. But inaction by both the public an...
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Ban Ki-Moon Calls on World's Mayors to Support Sustainable Cities
"Our struggle for global sustainability will be won or lost in cities." -- Ban Ki-moon, UN Secretary-General[1] The No...
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Lessons from India: Transparency, Sustainability and Dharma
What can investors learn from businesses in the world's biggest democracy? In a recent opinion piece in the Financial...
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Divining the Next Stock Market Crash: New Fragility Index Measures Global Systemic Risk
"Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and ne...
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Partial Eclipse of the Sun: Cloudy Days Ahead for Solar Energy Sector
Just hours before trading was to begin, BrightSource Energy cancelled its I.P.O. Is the light of the sun dimming on the...
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A Venture Capital Solution for Biodiversity Loss
The world's governments have failed to stop biodiversity loss. Can market-based initiatives fare better? At the Rio E...
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Different Rules, Same Goals: The Glocalization of Sustainable Investment Strategies
The first-ever sustainable and responsible investment global trends report will be released in December Nothing exists...
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The Color of Eco-Money: Ecosystem Services and the Value of Being Green
Calculating the dollar value of a healthy environment is necessary for rational policy-making In his 1949 book A Sand...
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Smiles, Everyone...Smiles! Happiness Is the New Economic Paradigm
GDP and GNP only tell part of the story. A nation's progress should also be measured by its GNH (Gross National Happin...
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Green Things Come in Small Packages: Assessing the Economic Impact and Sustainability of Green Nanotechnology
"Nanotechnologies have the potential to advance as 'instruments of sustainability' only if we encourage and witness b...
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A Win-Win for Women: New Calvert Foundation Impact Investment Initiative Gets $1 Million Citi Grant
A new impact investment initiative aims to create opportunities for underserved women around the world Women's History...
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