Month: January 2023

Dignitaries gather at the podium for the opening ceremony of the COP25 high-level segment. Front row second from left, Teresa Ribera, Minister for the Ecological Transition, Spain; Carolina Schmidt, COP25 President, Minister of the Environment, Chile; Tijjani Muhammad-Bande, President, UN General Assembly; Patricia Espinosa, Executive Director UN Climate Change, December 11, 2019 Madrid, Spain (Ph...[Read More]

100 MW Floating PV Power Plant Project in Huancheng Town, Weishan County, Jining City, Shandong Province (Photo courtesy Sungrow Power) Posted for media use By Sunny Lewis WASHINGTON, DC, November 1, 2018 (Maximpact.com News) – Floating solar photovoltaic panels on the surfaces of lakes, hydropower and agricultural reservoirs, industrial ponds, and near-coastal areas is one of today’s fastest-grow...[Read More]

In the corridors and meeting rooms at the UN climate summit COP26, people from across the world network with people they would never have met otherwise, such as this indigenous woman, one of a group from Brazil. November 4, 2021 Glasgow, Scotland (Photo courtesy Earth Negotiations Bulletin) Posted for media use https://enb.iisd.org/Glasgow-Climate-Change-Conference-COP26-04Nov2021 By Sunny Lewis f...[Read More]

Abir at the Launch of Refugee week in Belfast with Ronnie. Ronnie was her key worker and a refugee himself. By Maximpact Norther Ireland, Belfast, June 17, 2019 Maximpact’s Fast Track to Employment and Social Integration Programme for Refugees is designed to address existing barriers to employment and social inclusion through provision of online English language classes and support into employment...[Read More]

By Marta Maretich There’s a global food crisis looming, according to many commentators. The food price crisis of 2008 spooked world markets and gave us a taste of what may be to come in the future: commodity prices went through the roof and people in many parts of the world panicked. This lead to a reappraisal of food and agricultural policy in many quarters,spurring international aid organization...[Read More]

WWF supporters displayed a colorful banner at the World Leaders Summit part of COP26, November 12, 2021, Glasgow, Scotland (Photo by Earth Negotiations Bulletin) Used with permission GLASGOW, Scotland, November 17, 2021 (ENS) – The UN climate conference COP26 concluded late Saturday night with a deal among the 196 Parties to forestall catastrophic climate change that hinged on a surprise developme...[Read More]

Students who are beneficiaries of the activities financed by UNICEF and developed together with their humanitarian partners. This photograph was taken as part of the coverage of recreational days for the prevention of Zika, during the development of the theater play “La Zancuda Patirrayas and the Zika Virus.” Manta, Manabí, Ecuador. March 2, 2017. (Photo by UNICEF) Creative Commons License va Flic...[Read More]

Maximpact Deals is an online platform that lets you list your project or venture and enables you to connect directly; free of charge and commission-free; with partners and potential funders in the impact and sustainability industry. With a mission to foster collaboration between different parts of the growing impact and sustainability sectors, our platform is wide open, making it a shared communit...[Read More]

Refugee women stand before the mural they painted in the Guatemalan town of Tapachula, 2019 (Photo courtesy UN High Commissioner for Refugees) By Sunny Lewis NEW YORK, New York, June 18, 2019 (Maximpact.com News) – World Refugee Day, held each year on June 20, honors the strength and courage of refugees and encourages public awareness and support of refugees who have had to flee their homelands du...[Read More]

Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohamed Bin Zayed, Jordan’s Crown Prince Hussein Bin Abdullah II and the President of Mauritania Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz present the Small and Medium Enterprise award to Thomas Samuel, CEO of Sunna Design, Jan. 23, 2018, Abu Dhabi, UAE (Photo courtesy Sunna Design via Twitter) Posted for media use By Sunny Lewis ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates, February 8, 2018 (Maxim...[Read More]

Each year people across the globe produce billions of tons of waste. It is estimated that 2.01 billion tons of solid waste was produced in 2016 and the World Bank predicts that by 2050, that could rise to 3.4 billion tons. The more urbanised a country is the more trash and waste it produces. In still-urbanising cities, many in Asia and Africa, the amount of trash produced is expected to double as ...[Read More]

The big corporations, governments and NGOs will continue to be active in agriculture, but there are still opportunities for impact investors. Scaling up existing models Impact investing already has a track record of success in agriculture. Over years of experience organizations like Root Capital have developed models that have proved their effectiveness in providing impact finance to key rural sma...[Read More]