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The Buzz on Green Business in China

Harvard Business Review

But the focus was squarely on "energy saving, environmental protection, and the low-carbon economy" with other emerging areas — infotech, biotech, and modern materials — taking a distinctly secondary role. Besides the meeting itself, I was struck by the considerable focus on green issues in China. And on and on. In the U.S.

NGO 14
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How Exactly Will We Move Away from Fossil Fuels?

Harvard Business Review

The logic, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA) and banks like HSBC, is this: as the world migrates away from carbon-based fuels, trillions of barrels of oil and billions of tons of coal — the assets sitting on the books of energy companies — will become “stranded,” or worthless. Let’s quickly look at each.

NGO 8
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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Asheesh Advani – President and CEO, Junior Achievement Worldwide – the largest NGO dedicated to teaching young people about entrepreneurship and financial literacy. Darek Lenart – Senior VP HR, Finance MasterCard. He has spent more than 15 years investing in industries such as healthcare, energy, industrials, and technology.

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The Largest Risk (and Opportunity) Investors Are Ignoring

Harvard Business Review

The day before the stark story in the Times appeared, I attended a related conference, the Investor Summit on Climate Risk, held at the UN and run by the NGO Ceres. Economy Finance Sustainability' treasury secretary Robert Rubin, who declared, “climate change is an existential risk.”. degrees Fahrenheit (2 o C).

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The Future of Cities Depends on Innovative Financing

Harvard Business Review

In traditional financing models, it’s just not possible for investors to see their way to a financial return based on some abstract added value of the integrated whole. However, social impact and pay-for-success securities could unlock substantial foundation, philanthropic, and NGO assets to buffer the risk for return-seeking capital.

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Bringing an Entrepreneurial Mindset to the World’s Failing Systems

Harvard Business Review

This is not a surreal scene painted by Salvador Dali, but rather a workshop convened by The Finance Innovation Lab (which Rachel co-founded). To capture the energy created by the financial crisis to bring together people who don’t normally talk to one another to design a new financial system. The purpose?

System 8
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The 10 Most Important Sustainable Business Stories from 2014

Harvard Business Review

Second, a new coalition representing many of the world’s largest companies launched in September under the name We Mean Business and issued its own powerful study , offering substantial evidence of the direct business value of investing in low-carbon tech and energy efficiency. Financing the clean economy. Unilever U.S.