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Tell us more – what is mavia? mavia is a social finance and philanthropy advisory firm based in Zurich. We strive to increase positive impact for our clients and their beneficiaries by creating transparency and bridging the gap between people wanting to engage in positive change and adequate, high quality investment and philanthropy opportunities for impact. We offer our clients independent, perso...[Read More]

Assembly participants have fun with the #BeatPollution sculpture in front of the conference venue. December 5, 2017 (Photo courtesy Earth Negotiations Bulletin) Posted for media use By Sunny Lewis NAIROBI, Kenya, December 7, 2017 (Maximpact.com News) – “With the promises made here, we are sending a powerful message that we will listen to the science, change the way we consume and produce, and tack...[Read More]

Morningstar Head of Sustainability Steven Smit (right with glasses) and Morningstar Chairman and CEO Joe Mansueto. (Screengrab from video courtesy Morningstar) By Sunny Lewis, CHICAGO, Illinois, March 3, 2016 (Maximpact.com News) – Evaluating mutual funds and exchange-traded funds based on how well the companies they hold manage their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) risks and opportuni...[Read More]

Celebrating the adoption of the Paris Agreement, from left, then UNFCCC Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius and President of the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris (COP21), President François Hollande of France, December 12, 2015. (Photo courtesy UNFCCC) posted for media use. By Sunny Lewis, NEW YORK, New York, Octobe...[Read More]

Boston’s Atlantic Wharf (tallest building, center) is the city’s first LEED platinum skyscraper with offices, retail and residential lofts on Boston’s waterfront. LEED, Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, is a national certification system developed by the U.S. Green Building Council to encourage the construction of energy and resource-efficient buildings. Platinum is the highest LEED r...[Read More]

Artist’s rendering of the 3.2GW Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant located in Somerset, England. (Image courtesy UK Government as published by “Power Technology“) By Sunny Lewis for Maximpact PARIS, France, March 5, 2020 (Maximpact.com News) – French electric utility giant EDF, largely owned by the French state, is planning for large-scale production of hydrogen to be powered by its fleet of UK n...[Read More]

Shrin Ali, left, and Aisha Bakkar, right, both resettled from Syria in Northern Ireland, at Warrenpoint Municipal Park, County Down, Northern Ireland, December 2020 (Photo by Brian McAlinden) If anyone told me a year ago that everybody will be locked down in his house, and we will see the biggest cities in the world empty and look like ghost towns, I would have told him that he is crazy!!! However...[Read More]

Sea Shepherd crew, left, confronts Japanese whalers in the Southern Ocean during the group’s Operation Leviathan 2006-2007. (Photo courtesy Sea Shepherd Conservation Society) Posted for media use By Sunny Lewis BURBANK, California, January 18, 2018 (Maximpact.com News) – The Japanese whaling fleet is killing minke whales  in the Southern Ocean around Antarctica right now without opposition for the...[Read More]

Bioplastic bottles can be transformed into the environmentally-friendly solvent methyl lactate. (Photo courtesy The Dieline) Posted for media use By Sunny Lewis for Maximpact LONDON, UK, June 10, 2020 (Maximpact.com News) – New technologies are breaking through the barriers to a circular economy that would consign enormous landfills and incinerators to the dustbin of history. Waste has become a re...[Read More]

Many U.S. citizens do not support the Trump administration’s immigration policies. Here, members of the nonprofit Unitarian Universalist Service Committee partnered with Lights for Liberty and other human rights organizations to protest the detention centers holding and separating migrant families at the U.S. southern border. June 12, 2019, Boston, Massachusetts (Photo by Hannah Hafter) creative C...[Read More]

By Marta Maretich, Chief Editor @maximpactdotcom We were waiting for it. Now, at last, it’s here. The report of the Social Impact Investment G8 Taskforce hit the media on September 15 provoking a small flood of news stories and reaction pieces from governments, development agencies and third-sector bodies. At 51 pages not including the eight individual country reports, The Invisible Heart of Marke...[Read More]

Aguas Andinas, Chile’s largest water utility company, is making Santiago’s three wastewater treatment plants into “biofactories” that convert wastewater and sewer sludge into clean energy. All three treatment plants will be zero waste, energy self-sufficient, and carbon neutral by 2022. (Photo courtesy Aguas Andinas) By Sunny Lewis BONN, Germany, November 13, 2018 (Maximpact.com News) – From a mob...[Read More]