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The Connection Between Biodiversity, Finance and Sustainable Prosperity
Sustainable Finance: To combat the so-called "Sixth Extinction," we must put a price tag on healthy ecosystems. The financial sector can help Approximately 10,000 new sp
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Getting Ready for Its Rio+20 Debut: The Natural Capital Declaration
Sustainable Finance: In the run-up to Rio+20, more finance sector CEOs have made a commitment to support the preservation of ecosystem services The concept of "ecosystem
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Transparency International to Rio+20: Address Corruption in Climate Financing
Sustainable Finance: With Rio+20 around the corner, the leading international development corruption monitoring group warns of failure if mechanisms for climate financing
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The United Nations Calls for a New Asia-Pacific Energy Compact
Sustainable Finance: "Connecting the dots between the challenges of water, food, and energy security lies at the heart of sustainable development--and Rio+20 will be a ge
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When It Comes to Building a Green Economy, Time Is Money
Sustainable Finance: If the G-20 invested 2% of GDP in a green economy, 48 million jobs would be created. But inaction by both the public and private sectors threatens th
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Ban Ki-Moon Calls on World's Mayors to Support Sustainable Cities
Sustainable Finance: "Our struggle for global sustainability will be won or lost in cities." -- Ban Ki-moon, UN Secretary-General[1] The Nobel laureate poet Derek Walcot
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A Venture Capital Solution for Biodiversity Loss
Sustainable Finance: The world's governments have failed to stop biodiversity loss. Can market-based initiatives fare better? At the Rio Earth Summit in 1992, government
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Smiles, Everyone...Smiles! Happiness Is the New Economic Paradigm
Sustainable Finance: GDP and GNP only tell part of the story. A nation's progress should also be measured by its GNH (Gross National Happiness) Perhaps there's something
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A Win-Win for Women: New Calvert Foundation Impact Investment Initiative Gets $1 Million Citi Grant
Sustainable Finance: A new impact investment initiative aims to create opportunities for underserved women around the world Women's History Month may be over, but as the
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Exclusive Q&A with Talya Bosch, Senior Director of Social Ventures, Western Union
Sustainable Finance: "The question becomes choice. And giving people in every market as much choice as possible is powerful." -- Talya Bosch, Senior Director of Social Ve
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The XX Factor: Investing in Women Would Grow the Economy, But It's Still a Genie in Bottle
Sustainable Finance: From the bottom of the pyramid to the top of the corporate ladder, the message is clear: Investing in women is smart economics On March 8, I attende
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Exclusive Q&A with Lauren Bush, Co-Founder, FEED Projects
Sustainable Finance: "True human empathy and connection--and the level of dedication that can follow from that--comes from personal interaction." -- Lauren Bush, co-found
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Making the Link Between Poverty and Illness: Microfinance Takes on Healthcare in India
Sustainable Finance: "The biggest enemy of health in the developing world is poverty." -- Kofi Annan[1] /> A fifth of all childhood deaths worldwide occur in India, wher
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Foxes in Charge of the Henhouse: The Influence of Big Agribusiness on Food Policy
Sustainable Finance: Understanding the relationship between money, politics and food can cause a loss of appetite There was a time when very few people questioned the so
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Propping Up the Past: Fossil Fuel Subsidies Should Go the Way of the Dinosaur
Sustainable Finance: Ending subsidies for dirty fuel would make gas more expensive. Maybe that's not a bad thing Eliminating fossil fuel subsidies could save as much as
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Rio+20 or Bust: Zero Draft of Outcome Document for the UN Conference on Sustainable Development Released
Sustainable Finance: In June, the world's leaders will meet in Rio to set the global sustainability agenda for the next decade. Boa sorte! The United Nations has release
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Earth, Inc.: Will Corporate Monopolies Dominate the Green Economy?
Sustainable Finance: Rio+20 may launch the "biggest Earth grab in 500 years," argues new report As we get closer to the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Developm
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Fiddling While Earth Burns: Hopes for a Climate Deal Dashed in Durban
Sustainable Finance: "Unfortunately what has occurred in Durban is that the major economies have deferred action. The carbon tax modelling collapses as of this moment." -
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The Call of the Gamelan: Sustainable Investing in Indonesia
Sustainable Finance: The world's 18th-largest economy is poised to be a sustainable development model for developing nations Known as the "Asian miracle" in the 1980s an
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Slow Down, Planet-Eaters: UN Proposes Decoupling Economic Growth from Resource Consumption
Sustainable Finance: "People believe environmental 'bads' are the price we must pay for economic 'goods.' However, we cannot, and need not, continue to act as if this tra
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