Month: September 2023

Road sign warns of flooding in Wachapreague, Virginia on Tuesday, July 10, 2018. (Photo by Aileen Devlin / Virginia Sea Grant) Creative Commons license via Flickr By Sunny Lewis ISPRA, Italy, August 14, 2018 (Maximpact.com  News) – Famous Hawaiian swimmer and surfer Duke Kahanamoku always warned, “Never turn your back on the ocean.” He wanted people to watch out for the physical dangers of being h...[Read More]

Airplanes on the tarmac at Istanbul’s Atatürk Airport, June 30, 2016 (Photo by Caribb) Creative Commons license via Flickr By Sunny Lewis MONTREAL, Quebec, Canada, August 16, 2016 (Maximpact.com) – Every day around the world, more than 100,000 civil aviation flights take off and land – safely for the most part. Now, the global agency responsible for overseeing civil aviation is working to improve ...[Read More]

by Marta Maretich, Chief Editor @mmmaretich A webinar with Sir Ronald Cohen and Rosemary Addis gave a taste of what is to come from the full report of the G8 taskforce for Social Investing. Convened by David Cameron at last year’s Impact G8, the taskforce was given the brief of informing “governments and the worlds of finance and industry about what needs to be done” to develop the impact market. ...[Read More]

Maximpact founder and CEO, Tom Holland Interview by Marta Maretich, Chief Writer You have a background in pure investing: first banking, finance, real estate and, for the last 14 years, private equity. What brought you to impact investing? I was investing in mining projects in Africa and decided we needed to put more back into the countries we were taking so much out of. To start I looked for more...[Read More]

Women are an immense resource for social change. It has been proven with countless statistics that women’s collaborative actions are a prerequisite for the fight against poverty and human rights. UN Women, the UN Global Compact, the World Bank, the World Economic Forum, and other agencies provide findings that demonstrate that gender diversity helps business perform better and that achieving the M...[Read More]

Oxford University, England 2014 (Photo by Samuel Musarika) Creative Commons license via Flickr By Sunny Lewis OXFORD, England, March 6, 2018 (Maximpact.com News) – Many of the world’s most prestigious universities are pooling their wisdom in a new alliance to “help scale-up the green finance sector.” One of their first considerations is impact investing – measuring the social impact of investments...[Read More]

By Sunny Lewis SEATTLE, Washington, May 31, 2016 (Maximpact.com News) – Compared to the lives of men, little is known about the lives of the world’s women – how much time they spend on unpaid work, if they own land, if they can get credit, if they die in childbirth, which programs meant to help them are succeeding and which are not. To narrow these gender data gaps and accelerate progress for wome...[Read More]

By Sunny Lewis STOCKHOLM, Sweden, August 22, 2017 (Maximpact.com News) – For the first time, 10 of the world’s largest seafood companies have formed a new global coalition aimed at ending unsustainable practices, such as overfishing, slavery at sea and destructive impacts on ocean habitats and marine species. The initiative, the Seafood Business for Ocean Stewardship (SeaBOS), marks the first time...[Read More]

An artist’s rendition of how the Ford connected car of the future will use Qualcomm technology to connected with everything. (Image courtesy Ford Motor Company Inc. (Posted for media use) By Sunny Lewis LAS VEGAS, Nevada, January 11, 2018 (Maximpact.com News) – With cars that can read a driver’s mind, and cars equipped with Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything (C-V2X) technology, automakers from around ...[Read More]

The Paradise Fossil Plant in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky emitting greenhouse gases. The Tennessee Valley Authority voted in 2019 to close this, the last coal-fired power plant in Kentucky, by the end of 2020. May 22, 2019 (Photo by Chris Bentley) Creative Commons license via Flickr By Sunny Lewis CORVALLIS, Oregon, November 14, 2019 (Maximpact.com News) – A global coalition of more than 11,000 sci...[Read More]

By Sunny Lewis  WASHINGTON, DC, October 27, 2016 – (Maximpact.com News) – The green bond market reported a worldwide milestone in August when aggregate green bond issuance topped US$150 billion for the first time since the World Bank issued the inaugural green bond in 2008. It was a US$400 million four-year bond issued in Sweden during the depths of the 2008 financial crisis.  Green bonds finance ...[Read More]

RICHLAND, Washington, February 26, 2021 (Maximpact.comNews) – “When we eat, our bodies convert food into energy that fuels our lives. But what happens to the energy stored in the 80 billion pounds (40 million tons) of food thrown away annually in America?” asks Steven Ashby, director of the U.S. Dept. of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland. As part of advancing sustainable e...[Read More]