Family forest owners steward 39% of US forests, more than the federal government or corporate owners. Managed well, those nearly 300m acres could offset 350m metric tons of CO2 per year, or as much as 78m cars, writes @marcellorossi87 for @ImpactAlphaimpactalpha.com/sequestering…
Pension funds and insurance companies have boosted their impact funding at a compound annual rate of 32% and now make up 27% of the capital raised by the surveyed impact fund managers.
More results from @theGIIN's latest survey, via @Locavesting.
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Impact funds are racking up exits – and putting to rest any lingering concerns (sigh) about their ability to generate market-rate returns. #impinv#impactimpactalpha.com/everfi-vital…
For decades, Justice Clarence Thomas has secretly accepted luxury trips from a major Republican donor, newly obtained documents and interviews show.
The extent and frequency of these apparent gifts to Thomas has no known precedent in modern SCOTUS history... 🧵👇
ALT Left: Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas in October 2022. He is seated with his fellow SCOTUS justices {not pictured]. Right: Harlan Crow in October 2015. He is photographed seated in what appears to be a room in his home.
The Liist is out!
This month's funds focus on strategies for restoring land and marine ecosystems, while building healthy, resilient food systems and communities.
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UP NOW: "ESG is big business for @BlackRock even if Larry Fink won’t call it by its name. At least, not right now," writes @ImogenNYC.
Rose-Smith has thoughts on Fink's annual letter and the business imperative that dare not speak its name.
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Why should college hoops fans have all the fun?
@ImpactAlpha, in partnership with the Southern Reconstruction Fund’s FundOne, has kicked off a tournament to interrogate the range of #metrics for guiding investment strategies for bridging racial #wealthgaps.
Thanks for sharing, Stuart. So little time & so much to explore! At @ImpactAlpha, we are seeing investors begin to focus more on revenue materiality, or the % of a company's revenues that are generated from a climate or SDG solution, as the key measure of impact
Insightful conversation on the intersection of media and “ESG” or #sustainability at @NYUStern featuring journalists across the social impact beat, from @dgelles to @gilliantett 🌍
What’s your take?
Agents of Impact Call No. 49 took up policymaking around the S – for social – in worker ownership, human capital disclosure and accounting, and banks’ accountability for fair lending to underserved communities.
Read the recap by @locavesting.
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#Privateequity firms have been raising big funds and writing big checks for renewable energy, climate tech and industrial decarbonization. They’re just getting warmed up.
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"We’ve created what we think of as a virtuous circle," says Ariel Alternative's Leslie Brun about the firm's new Project Black PE fund.
ImpactAlpha has the deets:
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“There is not a single county in America where a parent with a child working a full time minimum wage job can afford to rent an apartment,” says #impact#RealEstate pioneer Jonathan Rose.
@ImpactAlpha has the scoop
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