Month: September 2023

The Ocean Cleanup system, the first scalable solution to prevent plastic from entering the world’s oceans from rivers, is 100 percent solar-powered, extracts plastic autonomously, and can be placed in the majority of the world’s most polluting rivers. Here it is shown on Malaysia’s Klang River. (Photo courtesy The Ocean Cleanup) Posted for media use By Sunny Lewis LONDON, UK, November 26, 2019 (Ma...[Read More]

Contracted workers clean heliostats at the Ivanpah Solar Project, a concentrating solar power facility in California’s Mojave Desert. Over 300,000 software-controlled mirrors track the sun in two dimensions and reflect the sunlight to boilers that sit atop three 459 foot tall power towers. July 26, 2017, Nipton, California. (Photo courtesy National Renewable Energy Lab) Public domain By Sunny Lewi...[Read More]

One of Ukraine’s two new Ramsar sites, Byle Lake and Koza Berezyna Mire. (Photo by Oksana Golovko, 2011 courtesy Ramsar Convention) Posted for media use By Sunny Lewis GLAND, Switzerland, February 2, 2017 (Maximpact.com News) – The frequency of natural disasters worldwide has more than doubled in just 35 years and their frequency is expected to increase due to climate change. Experts estimate that...[Read More]

Global energy investment amounted to more than USD 1.8 trillion in 2018, but using energy efficiently remains a key area of growth. This is according to the International Energy Agency’s latest annual review, World Energy Investment 2019. Investment in energy efficiency and renewables has not kept pace in recent years, suggesting that sustainable development goals such as those outlined in the Par...[Read More]

When 25-year-old Fatima thinks back to her old life in Syria, it’s almost impossible to believe that her happy, simple, comfortable life would eventually turn into one of such hardship and daily struggle. She could never have imagined that she and her family would one day be refugees. Fatima is one of thousands of people who fled the ongoing civil war in Syria with the hopes of building new lives ...[Read More]

By Eithne McNulty Overseas Officer for War On Want  Northern Ireland, EU July 19, 2017 (Guest Contributor) War On Want Northern Ireland (WOWNI) is a small, independent International Non-Governmental Organization (INGO) based in Belfast Northern Ireland. This year, 2017, it celebrates 56 years of working with poor communities in Africa. WOWNI implements programmes in Uganda and Malawi focusing on s...[Read More]

Worker installs solar panels on a roof in Oregon. (Photo courtesy Oregon Dept. of Transportation) Public domain. By Sunny Lewis CYBERSPACE, July 27, 2017 (Maximpact.com News) – Innovative financial technologies, from cryptocurrencies to crowdfunding, are offering new ways for citizens to become involved in clean energy projects, and to reap the benefits of the clean power they produce. Today, cryp...[Read More]

Caption: Medical team works to save a patient at a hospital in the Syrian town of Darat Izza, western Aleppo. March 13, 2020 (Photo courtesy Physicians for Human Rights) Posted for media use By Sunny Lewis for Maximpact GENEVA, Switzerland, March 31, 2020 (Maximpact.com News) – Wracked by civil war for nine years, Syria is at “high risk” of being unable to contain the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic...[Read More]

by Marta Maretich The World Sanitation Financing Facility (WSFF) started life as a timely idea. Born out of a conversation between Arthur Wood, then global head of Ashoka’s social financial services, Jack Sim, founder of the World Toilet Association and World Toilet Day, and Dr Guy Hutton, the leading Sanitation Economist for the World Bank’s Water and Sanitation Program (WSP), it came into being ...[Read More]

by Sunny Lewis, PARIS, France, December 17, 2015 (Maximpact.com News) – The breakthrough Paris Climate Agreement approved December 12 commits all countries to cut their greenhouse gas emissions to avert catastrophic climate change. Now, the world is focused on finding clean sources of energy to replace the coal, oil and gas that, when burned to generate electricity, emit heat-trapping greenhouse g...[Read More]

By Sunny Lewis BRUSSELS, Belgium, July 17, 2018 (Maximpact.com News) – While the United States attempts to limit migration through punitive action at its southern border, the European Union is taking the opposite approach to the flood of migrants from Africa and neighboring countries seeking sanctuary. Internally displaced Nigerians at an IOM displacement camp in Bama in Borno State, Nigeria, 2017...[Read More]

By Marta Maretich Impact investing is all about meeting needs. It places capital in businesses that provide human essentials such as water, power, food, education and healthcare. At the same time, it helps meet the needs of the planet and its non-human inhabitants by fostering business approaches that protect ecosystems and conserve natural resources. Keeping a close eye on need; and the perceptio...[Read More]