The Week in Impact Investing: Action
The team at
TGIF, Agents of Impact!
Game stoppers. It was hard to turn away from the Reddit revolt by small traders, who outmaneuvered Wall Street hedge funds to wreak havoc in the stock markets. The action this week in markets for carbon credits
(see Agent of Impact, below), clean technologies
(No. 5), climate adaptation (
(No. 2) may be more consequential. President Biden’s executive orders on green jobs (
No. 4), health care and racial justice could have filled The Brief. Public pressure on
BlackRock helped spur
(No. 1).
General Motors swore off internal combustion engines (by 2035). Net-zero business models. Sustainable and inclusive investment theses. Tools to measure impact and promote accountability
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jan. 27, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy today launched an initiative to mobilize investment in low-income communities, especially those that have been excluded from access to mainstream financial and wealth-building resources.
Image: Customers at food trucks in Atlanta, Georgia. Representatives from Georgia, including InvestAtlanta and the Georgia Housing Finance Authority, and 13 other states are participating in the Lincoln Institute s new Accelerating Community Investment Initiative. Credit: BluIz60/iStock Editorial via Getty Images Plus.
The initiative, Accelerating Community Investment (ACI), seeks to create a more fertile environment for philanthropies and other mission-aligned investors to deepen investment in community and economic development, housing, and other areas that benefit society. The initiative will bring public finance officials, impact investors, financial institutions, and comm
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, small businesses in least developed countries (LDCs) are seeing revenues plummet and are struggling to access financing.
Many LDCs depend on foreign aid, and are fearful that cuts to aid budgets will further set back their economic development.
It’s crucial that aid funding is spent as effectively as possible to attract more private investment to LDC small businesses.
The private sector is ready. Funds such as the SDG500 are already supporting small businesses in LDCs to remain afloat.
Small businesses in the world’s least developed countries (LDCs) are facing enormous challenges. Many have been left cash-strapped due to plummeting revenues during national and global COVID-19 lockdowns. Banks and other financiers have slashed lending at a time when small businesses need it most. And other forms of finance and credit are thin on the ground, making it nearly impossible for them to grow and build financial resilience.