Impact Investing And Philanthropy. What’s Hampering Meaningful Deployment Of Capital?
From Francois Botha | Forbes | March 17, 2024
In a world increasingly attuned to the long-term impacts of both financial and societal returns, the spectrum of sustainable deployment of capital has filled several gaps between traditional investing purely for financial gain on the one end of the spectrum and pure philanthropy on the other end. However, this continuing evolution comes with complexities. As discussed at the recent Verbier Summit, numerous questions from the attendees continue to orbit the topic, revealing both enthusiasm, concerns and still a hint of skepticism among investors.
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Corporate-Government “Tiger Team” Gutted GMO Regulations
Documents retrieved via Access to Information requests show a high level of collusion between Canadian government agencies and the world’s largest seed and pesticide companies
From Lucy Sharratt | The Watershed Sentinel | November 28, 2023
Media investigations in 2022 and 2023 uncovered a trail of documents showing that federal government departments worked directly with the biotechnology industry to design the new regulatory guidance for gene-edited GMOs, in a committee they called the “Tiger Team.”
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The nuclear option
From Eugene Ellman | Corporate Knights | March 20, 2024
With the nuclear calamities of Three Mile Island and Chernobyl fresh in the public mind, the 1980s saw a number of socially responsible investment funds pledge to keep nuclear energy out of their portfolios. The trend quickly spread, and soon the exclusion of companies that were involved in nuclear became the bedrock of socially conscious investment funds.