The Brief: Climate adaptation, impact reporting, insuring smallholder farmers, imperfect food, student-centric finance, decarbonization opportunities
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Accelerating climate emergency spurs innovative financing for adaptation. Investments aimed at
mitigating greenhouse gas emissions have long overshadowed financing for efforts to help communities
adapt to climate change. That is changing, as droughts, floods, storms and wildfires disrupt livelihoods, exacerbate food and water insecurity, and widen the economic divide. Investments in green infrastructure, soil health, water conservation, and digital tools for farmers can increase resiliency to baked-in weather patterns. A dollar invested in adaptation saves up to seven times that in disaster-related costs
WRAL TechWire keeps tabs on the latest and greatest meetups, panels, workshops, conferences, application deadlines and all things happening in the North Carolina startup/tech world. “The Headliners” is a multi-part weekly roundup of upcoming events to add to your calendar.
Following is a list of January events in Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill and the greater Triangle area. To find out what’s happening this month in cities outside of the Triangle, check out part two of the “Headliners” column. Another post highlights events coming up in February. Meetups that occur regularly are listed here.
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14th January 2021
Some say, if you can’t measure it, it didn’t happen. But it’s a real challenge to assess social impact. A partnership in South Africa aims to introduce impact measurement and management techniques to grassroots creative and social entrepreneurs.
Creative and social entrepreneurs want to change the world. But how do they know if they are succeeding? Some get heavily involved in quantitative measurement, metrics, log frames and targets. “If you can’t measure it, it just didn’t happen,” was a view expressed by a US-based public health awareness campaigner some years back. Others say the measurement mania can go too far and miss out on a whole range of qualitative and “softer” considerations. They quote a character in an Oscar Wilde play who defines a cynic as someone who “knows the price of everything and the value of nothing”. Is there some mid-point between these two extremes? What is the right balance between them?
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WRAL TechWire keeps tabs on the latest and greatest meetups, panels, workshops, conferences, application deadlines and all things happening in the North Carolina startup/tech world. “The Headliners” is a multi-part weekly roundup of upcoming events to add to your calendar.
Following is a list of December and January events in Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill and the greater Triangle area. To find out what’s happening this month in cities outside of the Triangle, check out part two of the “Headliners” column. Another post highlights events in February. Meetups that occur regularly are listed here.
If you’d like your event to be included, feel free to send me an email.