by Rachel Lim | Blended Finance & Philanthropy, Editor's Picks, Global, Impact Economy, Impact Investing, Latin America, Regions, SDG 13 - Climate Action, SDG 14 - Life Below Water, SDG 15 - Life on Land, SDGs
For all the attention around the nature-based carbon credit markets in the past few years, one thing’s for sure: it’s received its fair share of criticism. Not least on the list of criticisms is the view that, despite their name, certain types of nature-based carbon...
by Brigit Helms | Asia, Global, Impact Economy, Latin America, North America, Scaling Solutions
Climate resilience, according to the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions, is “the ability to prepare for, recover from, and adapt to” the impacts of climate change. And the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) places energy at the heart of solutions to...
by Agnes Dasewicz | Africa, Editor's Picks, ESG Investing, Gender Lens, Global, Impact Economy, Impact Investing, Impact Measurement & Management, Latin America, Middle East, SDG 13 - Climate Action, SDG 5 - Gender Equality, SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy
According to the World Bank, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) comprise 90% of businesses around the world, employ 50% of the global workforce, and in emerging economies, formal SMEs make up 40% of those countries’ GDPs, and when factoring in informal SMEs, that...