This month’s spotlight deals shine a light on the forestry sector. At the moment there are over thirty forestry deals listed on the Maximpact Eco platform and many of these are seeing a high degree of interest from impact investors.
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Conducting social and environmental due diligence may be good practice for investors with an eye on impact outcomes, but it certainly costs money and time—and does it really make business sense? Root Capital’s new briefing paper uncovers the business case for social and environmental due diligence, showing how the practice pays for itself—and then some.
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Pressures on our natural resources are getting bigger—and the consequences of depleting them are getting clearer—but a global movement for sustainability is now encouraging an explosion in the kind of responsible resource businesses that belong in our impact portfolios.
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MINT s are all over the financial pages—that is, the emerging economies of Mexico, Indonesia, Nigeria and Turkey. But while these countries may be a discovery for mainstream investors, impact and social benefit investors have known about them for years—and are now in pole position to place impact capital where it really counts.
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Services are a hot issue for the growing impact sector. We need them—and it looks like some data-based services will soon be coming our way. But is this all we need to succeed? This blog looks at what services impact sector really needs—and where we have to look to find them.
+Read MoreAs we start using our new holiday gifts this year, it is too easy to ignore the miraculous supply networks that allow us to enjoy the products of human labor and ingenuity around the world. Sustainability is increasingly viewed as a strategy for enduring in a world of scarce resources and unlimited needs; but we seem to be locked in an endless cycle of merely reacting to deep-seated economic and social problems.
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