Sustainable Finance & Socially Responsible Investment

Inclusive markets not only are possible, but can be made more possible. Find out how in new FSG report.

Ethical Corporation released a new report with case studies from Interface and PayPal on making the social purpose business case.

Currently, only about 10% of cancer patients in sub-Sahara Africa receive chemotherapy treatment. More than a half million people are diagnosed with cancer in the region annually, while nearly the same number die from it each year, too. Without intervention, that toll is expected to double by 2030, partly because as people are otherwise living longer, thanks to better malaria and HIV treatments and prevention. But chemotherapy and related drugs are both expensive and tricky to use because there are so many types and stages of the disease.

En la tercera entrega de nuestro tributo de cuatro partes al legado de la mina Marlin, que cerró en mayo de 2017, nos enfocamos en los beneficios educativos que esta mina le ha proporcionado a las comunidades locales en la región de San Marcos en Guatemala.

A long-time ideal of sustainability has been the concept of industrial ecology—the notion that industrial processes would benefit from mimicking the closed-loop efficiency of a natural ecosystem. Unlike conventional industrial processes, an ecosystem is not a process with a beginning and an end. An ecosystem is a continuous cycle through which materials flow.

Let’s talk about why sustainability needs to be boring.

System change is by far the most important sustainability issue in the corporate sector. Climate change and virtually every other major environmental and social issue only can be resolved through systemic changes at the sector and overarching system levels.