Interview with Uli Grabenwarter, Head of Strategic Development-Equity at the European Investment Fund
By Marta Maretich How did you get interested in impact investing? I was responsible for the Venture Capital investment business line of the European Investment Fund up until 2010. While I was doing that, I started to see impact investing as a natural extension to the venture capital activity we were doing. At the same time I felt impact offered an opportunity to do more value creation. I thought ...[Read More]
World Environment Day Goes Wild for Life
By Sunny Lewis, NEW YORK, New York, June 8, 2016 (Maximpact.com News) – The environmental concerns of the 1970s – industrial pollution of air and water, oil spills, toxic dumps, pesticides, loss of wilderness and biodiversity – inspired people to set aside two distinct days each year for activities aimed at saving the planet. In 1970, environmental activists in the United States celebrated Planet ...[Read More]
Green Grows the European Bond Market
Located at East Hedleyhope in Bishop Auckland, a market town in northeast England, the High Hedley Wind Farm consists of three wind turbines with a generating capacity of 2.4 megawatts capable of powering up to 1,400 homes. (Photo courtesy EDF) Posted for media use. By Sunny Lewis PARIS, France, July 11, 2019 (Maximpact.com News) – To raise at least €1 billion for the development of green debt in ...[Read More]
Fresh and Live: The Women in Green Forum
By Sarah-Jane George Sustainability isn’t marginal anymore. Today, sustainability is moving to center stage and professional women are leading what amounts to a global green shift. Maximpact was on hand for the 4th Annual Women In Green Forum in Los Angeles to chart the change. Founded in 2009 by Three Squares Inc., an environmental consulting firm from Santa Monica, Women in Green Forum (WIGF) is...[Read More]
Restoring Ruined Lands Reverses Trail of Misery
Excessive erosion on the U.S. Prairie. An inch of soil can take hundreds of years to form, but it can be swept away in a few seasons. Sediment loads in rivers silt up fish spawning beds, degrade drinking water quality, and cause silting of productive estuaries and reservoirs. March 27, 2017 (Photo by Rick Bohn / U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service) Public domain By Sunny Lewis MEDELLIN, Colombia, Apr...[Read More]
Making municipalities more energy efficient
Municipalities, just like the industrial and commercial sectors, are coming under increased pressure to reduce their energy consumption and outputs, not to mention the need to reduce costs overall. Municipal buildings and services have a huge energy savings potential, which can reduce their overall energy consumption and energy costs. At Maximpact our expert teams have assisted municipalities all ...[Read More]
Automated Cars Are Coming, Ready or Not
Non-expert driver takes the wheel of a PSA self-driving car for the first time in Europe at Velizy, France, the PSA Group’s Technical Center. March 28, 2017 (Screengrab from video courtesy PSA) posted for media use by Sunny Lewis AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands, August 15, 2017 (Maximpact.com News) – Deep learning, an advanced form of artificial intelligence and a dynamic way of computerized decision-m...[Read More]
Investment Court Could Restore Trust in Dispute Resolution
By Sunny Lewis BRUSSELS, Belgium, September 25, 2015 (Maximpact News) – Europeans no longer trust the way the EU resolves disputes between investors and states, says European Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmström. The Swedish politician proposes to restore that trust by establishing a “modern and transparent” Investment Court System to replace the existing investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) a...[Read More]
Online Learning Backstops Education’s Virus Backslide
A woman works on her notebook, February 3, 2019 Cologne, Germany (Photo by Marco Verch) Creative Commons license via Flickr By Sunny Lewis for Maximpact NEW YORK, New York, June 4, 2020 (Maximpact.com News) – School closures to control the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic have left roughly 60 percent of the world’s children without an education. In fact, global human development could backslide thi...[Read More]
UN Foundation: Now We Must Move with Urgency to Deliver on Promise of Climate Agreement
After much deliberation, an agreement has finally been reached from the UN Climate Conference in Paris. This legally binding agreement will call ambitious climate action on behalf of all member states, to ensure a sustainable future for us all. Below a statement from the United Nations Foundation regarding this agreement. – Raki Wane United Nations Foundation Highlights Importance of New Global...[Read More]
Changing the Way We Measure Impact
by Marta Maretich @maximpactdotcom Let’s face it: metrics are a pain. Even impact investors, committed to the principle of measuring social and environmental impact, find them so. While it’s true that the art and science of impact performance measurement have made strides in recent years (GIIN’s IRIS now gives the impact investing sector standardized tools to work with; projects including ImpactBa...[Read More]
How can your NGO organize ToT training?
NGO’s by their very nature are not concerned with the accumulation of wealth. Whether you are classed as charitable, community based, national or international, the outlook and goals are usually far more long term. Financing these goals usually takes a lot of effort and commitment from dedicated people within the NGO whose passion drives the project forward. This leaves little funding for anything...[Read More]