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Geneva, 11 May 2019 – Decisions on plastic waste have been reached today in Geneva, as approximately 180 governments adopted a raft of decisions aimed at protecting human health and the environment from the harmful effects of hazardous chemicals and waste.

Pollution from plastic waste, acknowledged ...

NEW YORK, May 6, 2019 - Blackstone (NYSE:BX) today announced the launch of a new impact investing platform that will be part of the firm’s Strategic Partners group. The platform will seek to deliver positive financial impact while addressing four specific investment themes— Health ...

New York, 10 May 2019 - LeapFrog Investments has announced the largest-ever private equity fund by a dedicated impact fund manager, surging past its $600m target to reach $700m. The new fund invests in healthcare and financial services companies – tapping into the demand from billions of ...

Vienna, May 7, 2019 - Buildings worldwide consume enormous amounts of energy: 40 percent of global energy requirements and 30 percent of CO2 emissions are estimated. This has to be reduced in order to combat climate change, and the improvement of energy efficiency is therefore of ...

Cape Town, South Africa, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, May 7, 2019 - Proof of Impact and Cordaid today announced a partnership, in conjunction with the Ethiopian Government, that will fund health outputs across district hospitals in Ethiopia.

Tokenized health outputs

In this partnership, Cordaid is ...

Brussels, 6 May 2019 - Speech by Vice-President for Jobs, Growth, Investment and Competitiveness, Jyrki Katainen, in charge of Health and Food Safety at the 6th EU Platform on Food Losses and Food Waste.

Four years have passed since we launched the EU's ground-breaking, unique of ...

PHILADELPHIA, May 2, 2019 - Bank of America, together with the Wharton Social Impact Initiative of the University of Pennsylvania and Good Capital Project, today announced the winner of a first-of-its-kind competition in which teams of graduate students from universities across the country were challenged to ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. (April 30, 2019) – The US SIF Foundation today released Moving Forward with Sustainable Investing: A Roadmap for Asset Owners to provide best practices and practical steps for retirement plans, corporations, educational institutions, philanthropic foundations, family offices, nonprofit organizations and other asset owners ...

DHAKA, April 28, 2019 — Bangladesh is among the few countries in South Asia that has increased female employment in the last decade while also cutting the wage gap between men and women significantly and it should keep this momentum going to create more gender equality ...