Posted by Guest Editor, via CGAP authors Barbara Gähwiler and Alice Nègre on Thursday, January 5, 2012,
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Microfinance funding is becoming more transparent. More than 60 microfinance funders regularly report information on their microfinance portfolio to CGAP, and extensive data are available on microfinance investment vehicles (MIVs) through Symbiotics and MicroRate. In 2011, CGAP surveyed the 20 largest microfinance funders, which represented over 85% of commitments reported in the previous survey year. Based on the findings of that survey and previous surveys, this Brief describes global trend... Continue reading ...
Posted by Guest Editor, via CGAP on Monday, December 5, 2011,
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In 2009, the results from two microcredit impact studies in Hyderabad, India, and Manila, the Philippines were released to mixed responses (Banerjee, Duflo, Glennerster, and Kinnan 2010; Karlan and Zinman 2011). Some media declared microfinance a failure (Bennett 2009). Many in the microfinance community dismissed these randomized studies as too limited to be a true reflection of the entire sector.
These first randomized studies caused a sensation because they challenged the dominant impact n... Continue reading ...
Posted by The Empowering Team on Thursday, December 1, 2011,
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Dear Friends,
We at MicroEmpowering are very thankful for a productive and successful 2011. We are extremely grateful for having you in our lives!
This is our first quarterly update and we will do our best to keep things simple and objective. Since our incorporation in September of 2009, we: -
Provided workshops for over 250 students in the US and Brazil
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Participated in the reforestation drive for almost 400 rare species of Pau Brasil# trees with our social entrepreneurship partner organizat...
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Posted by Guest Editor, BBC on Sunday, November 27, 2011,
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The National Petroleum Agency (ANP) said it would suspend Chevron's activities in Brazil until it had established the cause of an oil spill off the coast of Rio de Janeiro.  Source: BBC and AFP
Chevron has apologised for the leak, but has stressed it acted as rapidly and safely as possible to contain it. The Brazilian government has fined Chevron US$28m (£18m) for the spill. Brazilian Environment Minister Izabella Teixeira said Chevron could face further fines if an investigation into the ... Continue reading ...
Posted by Editor on Friday, September 9, 2011,
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The relentless rise of electricity prices over the past decade has made many consumers more conscientious about how they use electric power. Many of those conscientious people may find it frustrating — to put it mildly — that their daily or even hourly efforts to turn off devices they're not using hasn't delivered the results they'd expected.
The blame belongs to the growing number of "vampire" or "phantom" electronic products that populate today's typical home. An alarmingly large numbe... Continue reading ...
Posted by Via news wire on Friday, July 29, 2011,
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According to a recent article, the discovery of DeconGel was accidental. Late one night in 2006, the researchers of Skai Ventures, a Honolulu-based venture capital firm and technology accelerator got a little sloppy with one of their experiments. They were working with a gel that dripped from the lab table onto the floor.
Source: Courtesy of DeaconGel.
When they peeled it off, the floor beneath was "absolutely pristine, completely clean and white," recalls Wuh, the company CEO. "That's when... Continue reading ...
Posted by Editor CM on Monday, July 18, 2011,
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LOS ANGELES, Jul. 18 /CSRwire/ - For undergraduates interested in social innovation and developing well thought-out solutions to the world's problems, the Society and Business Lab (SBL) at the USC Marshall School of Business in conjunction with the School of Policy, Planning and Development has announced a social entrepreneurship minor that will begin in fall 2011. The interdisciplinary minor will be open to all USC undergraduate students who are seeking to understand the global context of soc... Continue reading ...
Posted by Editor on Monday, December 20, 2010,
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By Maryann Jones Thompson (via CEF)
The Cancun international climate negotiations defied low expectations by producing a set of modest “Cancun Agreements,” which delegates argue provide a strong base for a comprehensive agreement
next year. Key outcomes included:
- Creation of a new “Green Climate Fund” (with the The World Bank as “Trustee”) that aims to disburse $100 billion a year by 2020 to help poor countries adapt to climate change impacts and assist with low-carbon developme...
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Posted by Editor on Monday, November 29, 2010,
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LONDON, BRUSSELS, COPENHAGEN, WASHINGTON, D.C. and CANCUN, Mexico, Nov. 24 /CSRwire/ - The most important and influential business, finance and government leaders in the climate change arena are coming together with more than 100 high-level speakers, and the largest coalition of financiers at the inaugural World Climate Summit, December 4-5, at The Ritz-Carlton, Cancun, Mexico, in parallel to the UNFCCC COP 16.
The World Climate Summit 2010 is the
beginning of a new, open and collaborative ... Continue reading ...
Posted by on Wednesday, November 3, 2010,
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Via Newsday, with commentary of Brandon MillerHere's some good news for New Yorkers who are tired of West NY getting attention for their (amazing) wind farms.
The New York Power Authority (NYPA) has applied to develop an off
shore wind farm 24km off the coast of Long Island that would begin
pumping 300 MW of energy into the region, but whose capacity would be
700 MW (to be achieved by 2016).
According to Newsday (subscriber's only), the project comes with a price tag of about $1.5 billion.
No... Continue reading ...
Posted by on Saturday, October 30, 2010,
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Source: HARALD WINKLER*, ANDREW MARQUARD for Climate Policy, Volume 10, Number 5, 2010 , pp. 489-493(5) Excerpt from the Editorial of Climate Policy
The Introduction has a very good example focusing on South Africa case.
"Some developing countries are considering the option of using economic instruments as part of a broader policy of climate change mitigation. In South Africa, a carbon tax has been a very effective instrument for inducing relative emission reductions in the long-term mitigat... Continue reading ...
Posted by on Tuesday, October 19, 2010,
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By Hugh Wheelan via Responsible Investor Some of the biggest investment managers in the US – managing $415 billion in assets – have thrown their weight behind a campaign to fight a California state legal review that could halt implementation of its clean energy law, saying it would jeopardize long-term investment in green technology.
The investor backing of the ‘No on 23’ movement, referring to the controversial Proposition 23 ballot in two weeks time, follows an increasingly bitter ... Continue reading ...
Posted by Contribuitor on Wednesday, August 4, 2010,
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(Via BusinessGreen) American Businesses for Clean Energy (ABCE) group, one
of the leading corporate coalitions pushing for the adoption of climate change
legislation, last week released an analysis of green business lobby groups
revealing that more than 6,000 firms are now fully in favour of clean energy and
climate legislation The
study said that combined, the companies, which include 21 Fortune 100
companies and many of the largest corporate names in the US, employ 3.5 million
people and hav... Continue reading ...
Posted by Editor on Tuesday, July 27, 2010,
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By Rose Anderson
The dangers of anthropogenic climate change can be viewed as both a challenge and an opportunity. Each state in the US has unique opportunities to prosper by participating in the reduction of green house gas (GHG) emissions. In Oregon, there are many unique opportunities to strengthen the Oregon economy and improve the well-being of current and future generations through GHG reduction. Why Investment in GHG Reduction Makes Sense for Oregonians?• In Oregon, there are more t... Continue reading ...
Posted by Editor on Monday, June 21, 2010,
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by Timothy Curran
Perhaps surprisingly, the Greendex study which surveys
17,000 people, 1000 in 17 different countries, on their habits and attitudes in
relation to consumer choices finds that the residents of developing nations of
Brazil, India and China are the most sustainable consumers. France, Canada and
the USA rank the lowest.
While these results may be encouraging to those concerned
with how economic growth will affect the environment, they do not sit well with
the environmental real... Continue reading ...
Posted by Editor on Tuesday, June 15, 2010,
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Maria Fernanda Rivera In
2008, the official unemployment rate in Honduras was 3.5%, lower than
the US rate of 5.8% for the same year and more than half of the world
average of 7.2%. With such a high percentage of people participating in
the labor market, how is it that around three fourths of the Honduran population lives in poverty? The problem lies in the roughly 50% of the employed population working in the informal economy. The
informal economy is a low-productivity and low paying sector,...
Posted by on Wednesday, May 19, 2010,
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Tuesday, May 18 3:10 pm EST Today and tomorrow the Spanish Presidency of the EU will be hosting the 2010 EU-Latin America Summit in
Madrid. Since 1999, the Summit has sought to engage Europe and Latin
America in increased cultural and trade ties and create a defined
relationship between the two regions on a permanent basis. Latin
American and European economic interests between the regions hoped to
use the Summit to open Latin... Continue reading ...
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