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📢Climate Adaptation session at Impact Europe's Business of Impact + Capital Ideas on 13 June🌎 Stephan Peters from ICFA, Antoine Pugliese (WWF-France) and David Ferreira (Latimpacto) together with moderator Cindy Helfer Berget (Dalberg Advisors) will explore the intertwined nature of environmental and social challenges in areas such as health, agriculture, and migration. Panellists will then share their experience on innovative strategies for promoting climate adaptation and building more resilient communities, delving into 3 topics: 💡 Current Solutions and Challenges to build #climate #resilience 🔦 Policy and Regulation to guide and support effective #adaptation measures across sectors like infrastructure, agriculture, and water management 🔆 Future Trends and Opportunities for climate adaptation #impact #investing #climate #adaptation

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The global shortfall in climate funding cannot be met without innovative financing. Dalberg's Wijnand De Wit explores the potential of mechanisms like debt-for-nature swaps that could provide up to $100 billion to restore nature and help countries adapt to climate change. Discover how Dalberg works with clients and partners to unlock new opportunities and maximize impact: bit.ly/3WGznUs #conservation #sustainability #climatesolutions

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Find out how investing in the future of children makes a difference. Triodos Investment Management’s impact report shows how to generate positive impact and healthy financial returns by investing in listed small and midcap companies that support an ecosystem of equal opportunity, health and well-being, education, and safety for children across the world. #Children #ImpactReport #PensionsforPurpose https://ow.ly/jBvu50RBasm

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𝗟𝗼𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗟𝗲𝗱 𝗔𝗱𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗔𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: 𝗟𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗽𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲 💧 The Global Center on Adaptation's 2024 𝘚𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘙𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 report emphasizes the critical role of Locally Led Adaptation (LLA). By shifting decision-making to local levels and addressing structural inequalities, LLA enables sustainable, community-driven solutions. The report also highlights the 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝗹𝗼𝘄 program, implemented by the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) with MetaMeta as the Knowledge Partner. This initiative directly channels small grants to grassroots organizations via 𝟭𝟬 𝗵𝘂𝗯𝘀 𝗮𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘀𝘀 𝟱 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀, empowering communities to lead interventions in 𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗽𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, 𝘄𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲 𝗮𝗱𝗮𝗽𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 🌍 While impactful, locally led adaptation efforts face challenges like limited resources, bureaucracy, and technical gaps. Despite these hurdles, Kenyan communities have demonstrated resilience and shared key lessons: 💧 𝗗𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝗳𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 strenghtens ownership and innovation, as seen with the Naatum Women’s Group, which established a community savings and credit fund. 💧 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆-𝗹𝗲𝗱 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 enables adaptive learning, with initiatives like the Musul Land Committee’s improved water management through trial and error. 💧 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 build trust, with organizations like IMPACT Kenya supporting long-term partnerships through open dialogue and cooperation. This year’s report focus on global and national systems explores how development partners, multilateral institutions, and governments support LLA. The report delivers a powerful message: 𝗚𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝘀 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗶𝗱, 𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗰 𝗿𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗹𝘆 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝘃𝘂𝗹𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲. 🌱 📑 For more insights, find a link to the report in the comments. #locallyledadaptation #reversingtheflow | Karen Stehouwer Sandra Cats Veerle Lambert Femke van Woesik Nancy Kadenyi Nardos Tadesse Rwnag Mohammed frank van steenbergen GOPA AFC GOPA Consulting Group

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Attention climate entrepreneurs: 🌟 Our new gender-smart handbook is out! 🌟 In collaboration with Bopinc, we designed the WeClim Equally - gender-smart handbook for climate entrepreneurs to drive gender equality in the climate sector and support climate start-ups in making their businesses more inclusive. This easy-to-use guide features practical exercises and possible interventions across four critical areas: 👩🏽‍💼 Leadership: Strategies to cultivate gender-balanced leadership and decision-making structures. 🏢 Organisational Culture: Best practices for fostering an inclusive and equitable workplace environment. 🛍️ Marketplace: Approaches to ensure gender considerations are integrated into product development, marketing, and customer engagement. 🌐 Community: Ideas for supporting gender equality within the broader community and ecosystem. We believe that by addressing these areas, you can not only promote gender equality but also drive innovation and business success across the climate innovation sector. 👉 Check out the handbook now: https://bit.ly/3xwTPNL Supported by IrishAid, #CATAL1.5T, and IDB Lab #GenderEquality #ClimateInnovation #GenderSmart #ClimateEntrepreneurship 

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🌱 Rethinking Finance for Regenerative Impact In a thought-provoking interview for ImpactAlpha with Jasper van Brakel, President & CEO of RSF | Regenerative Social Finance, Betty Francisco, CEO of Boston Impact Initiative, shared how we’re challenging conventional finance to drive racial and economic justice. Betty highlighted how BII uses: -Place-based investing to build stronger communities -Integrated capital leveraging debt, equity and grants creatively -Trust-based approaches over traditional metrics like credit scores One story that Betty shared was our investment in Roundhead Brewing Company, a Latino-owned brewery in Boston. Together, we helped them adopt a living-wage compensation model and strengthened their employee retention. They have since established themselves as a community hub and purchased their building, ensuring long-term impact. This is just one example of how regenerative finance can transform lives and communities. A huge thank you to Jasper for leading this critical conversation and for bringing together voices driving systemic change. Read the full interview here: https://lnkd.in/e_-vkyCb

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How can we prepare for the future and develop our regions with nature-based solutions? Enjoyed this presentation from Ingrid Coninx. Ingrid is working on projects in Europe, while being based in Darwin and watching what's happening in Australia, which gives her fantastic perspective. Highlights for me: 1. We depend on systems--'key community systems' in Ingrid's presentation--to live sustainably in a place. The most fundamental of all are the ecosystems, which means that solutions to social and economic problems must also be nature-based solutions. 2. In the EU, they've designed the program to start with a demonstration site, where the solution is tested, before moving to other 'replication' sites. I have heard, in the Australian context, that we've executed a lot of good pilots or first runs, but not been good at scaling up. A good example from the EU, perhaps. 3. Ingrid's work indicates that governance is the biggest issue when it comes to systems change. This is a very interesting one to me. We may need new forms of governance--a governance of change, I'd call it. But some of this must also be about making sure the people who are part of the deliberative bodies we already have (elected councils for instance, or boards) ask powerful questions and deliberate well. 4. Design/plan for the future we want. This is something I bang on about all the time. The future is something we create through our action (and inaction). After all, that's how we got where we are today. We need to talk about the desirable future, as Ingrid points out. Unfortunately scenarios have been not much more than putting model projections into 'narrative' form. They've often obscured the agentive factors in that future, if I can put it that way, and a bit fluffy about descriptive and normative language. I still think scenarios, in a basic sense of the term, are a good way to represent a desirable future (perhaps contra Ingrid though it might be a terminological thing). However, they are yet to make good on their potential to be a rich definite description of a desirable and realistic state of affairs, at a point in time and in a certain place. (I'm doing some work on this so get in touch if you want to talk about developing a good scenario for your organisation or government area.) #naturebasedsolutions #scenarios #climaterisk #climateopportunity #adaptation #resilience Lis Ashby Luther Uthayakumaran Paula H. Wayne Burton Jonathon Masom CIA Louise Cramsie #RIELSS2024 https://lnkd.in/gfMcG5Ku

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📣 New 'EEA report Urban adaptation in Europe highlights the urgent need to adapt European cities to climate change and provides an overview of actions they are taking. As European cities increasingly feel the impacts of climate change, such as heatwaves and floods, there is a clear case for investing in urban societal resilience, the EEA report states. Cities have an essential role in the implementation of adaptation actions, which need to take into account local conditions and specific vulnerabilities'. https://lnkd.in/e7sXYM-G

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The #watercrisis is an intergenerational issue 🌍 True intergenerational justice can only be achieved if young people are meaningfully engaged and systematically included within decision-making processes. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/dk5dG34Y #YouthWaterAgenda #EconomicsOfWater Global Commission on the Economics of Water

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Less than 5% of #corporate #philanthropy is deployed to #climate and #nature. This white paper explores the role corporate philanthropy can play in accelerating climate and nature transitions. Through its grant-making, advisory capacity and participation in the broader ecosystem of decision-makers, philanthropy is working to drive action against climate and nature challenges. Find out more about how the World Economic Forum’s Giving to Amplify Earth Action (GAEA) platform is mobilizing $1 billion of smart, catalytic funding towards climate and nature interventions by 2030: https://lnkd.in/d6Ykr434 #SDIM24

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How is corporate philanthropy helping the planet in 2024? In partnership with the World Economic Forum, we're pleased to share this whitepaper, released today, on the positive societal impact corporate philanthropy can have towards #climate issues. Hope it sparks ideas for you as well. https://lnkd.in/eDygdzxz

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🇪🇺 A call for supporting #carbonremovals in the next EU mandate. 🇪🇺 Together with 45 other organisations, Drax Group has written to Climate Commissioner-designate, Wopke Hoekstra, ahead of his confirmation hearing in the European Parliament. We urge him to adopt a set of policies to support a sustainable scale-up of carbon dioxide removal (#CDR) in the next EU mandate. Our 4 key recommendations are... 👇 🔎 Set separate targets for emissions reductions and carbon removals in the revision of the Climate Law. 🔎 Boost CDR funding to scale up both early- and later-stage technologies. 🔎 Provide clarity for buyers of CDR in the Green Claims Directive, strengthening the integrity of climate claims. 🔎 Create stable demand for carbon removals through a compliance market and long-term policy support. Carbon removals, such as #BECCS at Drax, are vital to reach #NetZero. With the new European Commission being formed, this is a pivotal moment to ensure carbon removals become a pillar in Europe’s fight against climate change. 🌍 Read the full letter here: https://bit.ly/4fhRO8i

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The #JuneClimateMeetings in Bonn are a critical precursor to #COP29. Technical and sometimes repetitive, these negotiations and processes reinforce the importance of multilateralism. However, they also signal a system in need of reform, as key agenda items important to developing states are stalling with no recourse for states and especially for communities whose well being is determined by the outcomes. Without any other avenue to make & call for enforcement of critical decisions on climate change, particularly #ClimateFinance, #adaptation #lossanddamage and #gender, these meetings are critical. This year, a decision must be reached on the new climate finance goal (read more https://lnkd.in/d86aiQQF) , gender (https://lnkd.in/dNpCwGGp), among other important tracks. As part of the Women and Gender Constituency, I followed a stream of work called 'Arrangements for Intergovernmental meetings (AIM)' focused partly on how observers will be engaged in this multilateral process (UNFCCC). This could not have come at a better time, as besides #RenewableEnergyDoneRight, the advocacy I have been supporting the #AfDBCSOWorkingGroup with is advocating for greater Bank- #CSO engagement. Some states feel the climate meetings are a process that should fully be state led, yet for this process to be representative, more observers from the global south must be meaningfully engaged during negotiations, as they represent diverse communities disproportionately affected by climate change with lived realities & indigenous knowledge useful to developing solutions to the crisis. I delivered an intervention on behalf of the WGC that, among other things, called for visa equity and greater representation of observers from the global south in negotiations. Should these recommendations be picked, the process will embody the spirit of inclusivity, equality and cooperation that defines multilateralism, in addition to ensuring multilateral spaces do not further perpetuate the shrinking civic space. Besides AIM, I also attended at least one Kenya delegation meeting, and a couple of negotiations and side events, most notably one by the Africa Women and Gender Constituency. I reconnected with allies and friends in the space. I also facilitated some sessions - including a WGC morning caucus. I found a great website where one can follow a summary of the discussions: https://lnkd.in/dv9gc8sj. You can also find draft texts and decisions on the UNFCCC website. The meeting ends today - so let's see what comes out of it!

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#Russia’s #war with #Ukraine accelerating #global #climate #emergency, report shows | Climate crisis Nina Lakhani Climate justice reporter | The Guardian https://lnkd.in/gnYBai5G ...The climate cost of the first two years of Russia’s war on Ukraine was greater than the annual greenhouse gas emissions generated individually by 175 countries, exacerbating the global climate emergency in addition to the mounting death toll and widespread destruction, research reveals. Russia’s invasion has generated at least 175m tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (tCO2e), amid a surge in emissions from direct warfare, landscape fires, rerouted flights, forced migration and leaks caused by military attacks on fossil fuel infrastructure – as well as the future carbon cost of reconstruction, according to the most comprehensive analysis ever of conflict-driven climate impacts. The 175m tonnes includes carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide and sulphur hexafluoride (SF6), the most potent of all greenhouse gases. This is on a par with running 90m petrol cars for an entire year – and more than the total emissions generated individually by countries including the Netherlands, Venezuela and Kuwait in 2022. "...

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🎬 At ImpactMapper, we work to change how the world sees impact. So we formed a collective of partners to strengthen the global evidence base of #womenrights organizations’ key achievements and to track how they are engaged with the #SDGs. In 2023 we launched a report on Women’s Movement Building and the SDGs, one of the first #databases looking at this intersection that serves not only as evidence of the number of groups that contribute to SDG-related achievements, but also as a networking and knowledge-sharing tool amongst participants and the public more broadly. In this short clip of the report launch webinar we share how we created an online #survey containing both open-ended and multiple choice questions. The survey was designed by #ImpactMapper staff working closely with a Reference Group, along with our data-sharing partners at Equal Measures 2030 and Publish What You Fund. ➡️Download the free report https://lnkd.in/gcF3--qJ and join the conversation on our upcoming Impact Data Chat on Ending #GBV on August 29th! Free registration: https://lnkd.in/eaZ-UBMu

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To solve the climate problem, why do we need social enterprise with profit redistribution? Climate change is a systemic problem that requires systemic solutions with stakeholder engagement. When it comes to stakeholder engagement, the limitations of the capital market will slow our net-zero progress. People do not make all decisions based on money. We care about fairness, justice, and health. Although our capital market allocates resources efficiently and effectively, the “winners take all” mindset will discourage other stakeholders from engaging. Why? These are businesses asking others to solve the climate problem voluntarily in their own business interests. We, as a stakeholder, pay for the cost of climate problem, where business becomes the top 1% wealthiness. If only a few stakeholders profit from others to solve the climate problem, it is hard to engage more people to join, which slows our net-zero progress with collective climate action. A fair profit structure that contributes to social purpose is important to solve the climate problem and engage stakeholders. Accordingly, at Optivide, we commit to the social purposes defined in our Bylaws with our annual profit redistribution to the social purposes aligned with the minimum required profit margin(MRPM). Different from traditional centralized social purposes decided by the government, Optivide works and experiments to lead as an example of decentralizing social movements with social enterprises without geographic boundaries. ---------------------------------------- To receive more information about similar posts, follow the hashtags below. #Voice_Your_Money #Social_Enterprise #Net_Zero_Goal #Profit_Redistribution #Stakeholder_Engagement

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💡 𝗗𝗶𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄? 💡 ImpactReady was developed by a team of social impact specialists with over 25 years of combined expertise in evaluation and impact measurement. ImpactReady is underpinned by the Social Return on Investment (SROI) methodology. 🚀 Ready to transform the way you measure and showcase your organisation’s impact? Find out more by visiting: https://lnkd.in/edAk_dvu #SocialImpact #ImpactMeasurement #SROI

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Unlocking capital is essential to addressing the challenges of climate change. Philanthropists can help accelerate climate and nature action in many ways, such as by supporting the blended finance space, helping grassroots organisations prove the effectiveness of their Nature-based Solutions (NbS) to mobilise public- and private-sector capital, and providing technical assistance to advance programmes to the 'shovel-ready' stage to meet investor demand. 💡 Find out more in our Philanthropy Asia Summit 2024 Insights Report that we developed with Temasek Trust - https://lnkd.in/g8YHu7m9 Titled "Partnerships for Impact: A Roadmap on Collaboration to Catalyse Climate, Education, and Health Action in Asia", the report uncovers valuable insights from Philanthropy Asia Alliance members and partners at this year's Summit. It highlights the power of collective action and systems thinking in philanthropy, in the interconnected areas of climate, education, and health. The Philanthropy Asia Summit is the flagship platform for action of the Philanthropy Asia Alliance — a Temasek Trust initiative to promote collaborative philanthropy and prime Asia as a force for good. #PAS2024 #PhilanthropyAsiaAlliance #TemasekTrust #ClimateAction #BlendedFinance #NaturebasedSolutions #ThoughtLeadership

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