Month: March 2023

By Sunny Lewis NAIROBI, Kenya, February 7, 2017 (Maximpact.com News) – A UN-backed app is transforming green finance. At the World Economic Forum in Davos in January, the UN Environment Programme and Ant Financial Services Group, the Chinese online and mobile financial services provider, unveiled the Green Digital Finance Alliance, a joint initiative to stimulate the advancement of digital technol...[Read More]

Bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies, January 1, 2013 (Photo by Zack Copley) Creative Commons license via Flickr By Sunny Lewis DOHA, Qatar, August 7, 2018 (Maximpact.com News) – Bitcoin, just one of the many digital currencies, such as Ethereum, Litecoin and Ripple, currently consumes enough electricity to power the entire country of Denmark. Failure to lower the use of energy by Bitcoin and simil...[Read More]

By Sunny Lewis BEIJING, China, October 7, 2015 (Maximpact News) – Within two years China will open a national market-based cap-and-trade system to limit greenhouse gas emissions from some of its largest industrial sectors, President Xi Jinping announced late last month during his visit to the United States. Carbon emission levels will be capped and companies will have to pay for the right to emit ...[Read More]

By Marta Maretich Water is a hot issue in investing circles these days. Once considered a free natural resource, water is increasingly a focus for finance and speculation; hardly surprising in a world where water stress is a reality, global demand for water is on the increase and investment in water-related infrastructure is urgently needed, according to sector-watchers such as the World Bank-spon...[Read More]

Media Release: May 2019 Up to 6 000 refugees from refugee camps in Jordan, Egypt and Lebanon are scheduled to arrive in the UK before 2020. Most of these refugees will not be able to speak English when they arrive. Maximpact, together with the UNHCR, have recognised the need for a pre-arrival pre-ESOL (English for speakers of other languages) programme to equip migrants with sufficient English ski...[Read More]

Broiler chickens raised for slaughter are crowded by the thousands into factory farm warehouses, January 3, 2008 (Photo by Farm Sanctuary) By Sunny Lewis GENEVA, Switzerland, January 8, 2019 (Maximpact.com News) – Sizzling juicy steaks, crispy fried chicken, tender pork sausages – all delicious but not sustainable as the world’s population balloons toward 10 billion finds new research conducted by...[Read More]

This is the final installment of a 3-part series on impact investing in the education sector. Read Part I: Why the Education Sector Urgently Needs Impact Capital. Read Part II: What’s Keeping Impact Investors Away from Education? By Marta Maretich, Chief Editor @maximpactdotcom Impact investors are in prime position to put capital behind solutions to the global education crisis. But where are the ...[Read More]

Yarn made of recycled plastics (Photo by Lorna Watt) Creative Commons license via Flickr By Sunny Lewis STRASBOURG, France, January 30, 2018 (Maximpact.com News) – All plastic packaging on the market across the EU will be recyclable by 2030 under the first-ever Europe-wide strategy on plastics adopted by the European Commission earlier this month, “A European Strategy for Plastics in a Circular Ec...[Read More]

Organic salad greens (Photo courtesy European Commission) Posted for media use By Sunny Lewis BRUSSELS, Belgium, May 24, 2018 (Maximpact.com News) – The European Council Tuesday adopted new rules for organic farming, clearing the final hurdle for the modernization and harmonization of organic production both within the European Union and in non-EU countries. EU-wide rules covering the whole EU org...[Read More]

By Marta Maretich @maximpactdotcom It’s official: sustainability is mainstream. 2015 is tipped to be the “year of sustainability” according to UN chief Ban Ki-moon.  Following the publication of the UN report setting forth development goals to 2030, including substantial sustainability goals that link global prosperity with the protection of natural resources, the spotlight is on sustainability as...[Read More]

Tens of thousands of people were displaced by an air strike on the al-Shami hospital in the town of Ariha in Idlib, which had been supported by Islamic Relief and was providing care to more than 3,000 people every month. At least four children and six women were killed while more than 35 others were injured, including four nurses. February 12, 2020 (Photo courtesy Islamic Relief) Posted for media ...[Read More]

By Marta Maretich @maximpactdotcom It happens regularly: I am sitting next to someone I don’t know at dinner. When my turn comes to talk about what I do, I tell them about my work in impact investing. Many of my dinner companions — who are usually intelligent, well-informed people — have never heard of impact (still!) though most are aware of the buzz around responsible or sustainable investing.  ...[Read More]