Month: January 2023

UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi, far right, talks to a family of Syrian asylum-seekers who have recently arrived at the overcrowded Moria Reception and Identification Centre on the Greek island of Lesvos. November 27, 2019 (Photo by Achilleas Zavallis © UNHCR) Posted for media use By Sunny Lewis ATHENS, Greece, November 29, 2019 (Maximpact.com News) – The UN High Commissioner for ...[Read More]

Fine particles hang in the air over Shanghai, China, 2009 (Photo by Lei Han) Creative Commons license via Flickr By Sunny Lewis GENEVA, Switzerland, September 27, 2016 (Maximpact.com News) – Three million deaths a year are linked to exposure to outdoor air pollution, and indoor air pollution can be just as deadly. In 2012, an estimated 6.5 million deaths – 11.6 percent of all deaths worldwide – we...[Read More]

Delegates to the UNFCCC Climate Conference in Bonn, Germany confer in the corridor between meetings, June 18, 2019 (Photo courtesy Earth Negotiations Bulletin) Used with permission. By Sunny Lewis BONN, Germany, June 20, 2019 (Maximpact.com News) – “Energy investments now face unprecedented uncertainties, with shifts in markets, policies and technologies,” said Dr. Fatih Birol, executive director ...[Read More]

By Ellinor Dienst and Markus Freiburg, FASE Team Attila von Unruh Ashoka, one of the pioneers of social entrepreneurship, launched the Financing Agency for Social Entrepreneurship GmbH (FASE) to make growth of social enterprises financially viable in Germany. The FASE model allows co-investments by impact investors and philanthropists through an open pipeline of investment-ready social entrepreneu...[Read More]

Boys play with smartphones while walking past tents in the Zaatari refugee camp. Date unknown. (Photo courtesy University of Tennessee) Creative Commons license. By Sunny Lewis ZAATARI REFUGEE CAMP, Jordan, May 23, 2019 (Maximpact.com News) – “A Syrian refugee living in a Jordanian camp, or an immigrant to the United States, will have multiple associations with place enabled by digital technology,...[Read More]

A building integrated solar array at the Gare de Perpignan, Southern France. Part of the railway station was decorated in the style of Salvador Dalí, who proclaimed it to be the “Center of the Universe” after experiencing a vision of cosmogonic ecstasy there in 1963. (Photo by Issolsa via Wikipedia) Creative Commons license. BRUSSELS, Belgium, October 10, 2017 (Maximpact.com  News) – Integrating s...[Read More]

Guest port by Dave Wreford, Hermanus Rainbow Trust This blog post is part of a series of posts, introducing latest deals within Maximpact’s portfolio, written by our members. To register and promote your own sustainable profit or non-profit initiatives and projects looking for investment, grants or other types of collaboration, please register with Maximpact. “An innovative solution to a complex p...[Read More]

By Marta Maretich, Maximpact Chief Editor @maximpactdotcom Energy is set to be a key global concern for the foreseeable future; and to continue to be an important focus for the impact and sustainable investing sector. The reasons for this are familiar by now: fossil fuels are becoming scarcer, energy costs are rising, levels of industrialization are increasing, as is global prosperity, bringing in...[Read More]

A wildfire devours the forest next to Highway 63, 24 kilometers south of Fort McMurray on Saturday, May 7. The “Beast”, as it was called by Wood Buffalo fire chief Darby Allen, caused the mass evacuation of nearly 90,000 people from the northern Alberta city. (Photo by Chris Schwarz / Government of Alberta) Public domain By Sunny Lewis MUNICH, Germany, September 21, 2016 (Maximpact.com News) – Mon...[Read More]

Women bear their burdens in rural Rajasthan, India, November 18, 2008 (Photo by Richard Evea) Creative Commons license via Flickr By Sunny Lewis WASHINGTON, DC, June 1, 2018 (Maximpact.com News) – Globally, countries are losing $160 trillion in wealth because of differences in lifetime earnings between women and men. This amounts to an average of $23,620 for each person in the 141 countries studie...[Read More]

Members of a Syrian refugee family huddle around a stove inside their shelter in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley. 2013 (Photo by A. McConnell courtesy UNHCR) Posted for media use By Sunny Lewis for Maximpact GENEVA, Switzerland, January 9, 2020 (Maximpact.com News) – In Iraq, displaced people struggle with the loss of electric power as blackouts and brownouts remain frequent even at grid-connected settleme...[Read More]

Inspired by the global Earth Day 2022 theme ‘Invest In Our Planet’, students at Tanzania’s oldest and premier public academic institution – the University of Dar es Salam – conducted a cleanup of the university’s ecological garden. April 12, 2022 (Photo courtesy EarthDay.org) Posted for media use By Sunny Lewis for Maximpact WASHINGTON, DC, April 20, 2022 (Maximpact.com News) – The environmental m...[Read More]