Impact Investing

It matters when it’s in your backyard

Climate risk intelligence to inform location-specific physical risk now and in the future. For decades, scientists have warned about the increase...
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Is Our House On Fire?

Exploring Future Scenarios with the Changing Climate The growing number of high-intensity acute physical hazards like wildfires and floods have been...
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Why is international cooperation so hard?

Remember climate change? On June 20, the high temperature in Verkhoyansk, a town in northeast Russia about 260 miles south of...
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Can emissions trading save us?

What is emissions trading? Source Emissions trading, also known as cap and trade, has two components. First a cap is set...
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Individuality

Patient empowerment cannot be without physician empowerment.

Power as an individual trait Power is authority lent to an individual or earned by someone to carry out a task....
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The Shift Towards Sustainable Pensions: How Plan Beneficiaries are Sha...

Many institutional investors are addressing global issues by making allocations into ‘sustainable investments’. Sustainable investing is an umbrella term referring to...
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5 Potential Blockchain Use-cases that can save the environment

Blockchain technology has become synonymous with innovation and disruption. While several sectors like healthcare, education, and finance have significantly benefited from...
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ESG Investing Has a Data Problem — Here’s Why That Matters

Sustainable ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) investing requires, by its very definition, a robust and sensible approach. No investment that purports...
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Science and Money in the Climate Change Debate

… if we had one There is no public debate about climate change. On Medium, where I post my texts, there...
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Using Mobile to Help Eradicate Child Labor on Ivorian Cocoa Farms

West African farmers use child labor to cost-effectively scale production of the cocoa used by chocolate companies to make chocolates. Out...
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