Investing in Change: What is Socially Responsible Investing (SRI)?
Is impact investing the same as socially responsible investing (SRI)? Arowana Impact Capital breaks down the differences between the two investment approaches.
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Investing in Change: What is ESG Investing?
Want to invest in a company whose values match your own? ESG investing might be for you. Arowana Impact Capital looks at the basics of this growing investment strategy.
Investing in Change: How to Get Started in Impact Investing
Want to invest in change but don’t know where to begin? In this article, Arowana Impact Capital provides a simple guide on how to get started in impact investing.
Air Pollution: The Forgotten Pandemic
Air Pollution: The Forgotten Pandemic Long before COVID-19 became a global health emergency, another silent pandemic had gone unnoticed: air pollution. Each year, about seven million people suffer a premature death due to health complications from poor air quality, while 90% of the world’s population continues to be at risk, according to findings from the United Nations. …
Investing in Change: What is Impact Investing?
Investing in Change: What is Impact Investing? Heightened interest in social responsibility, equality, and sustainable development, especially among the younger generation, has prompted investors to rethink where they are directing their capital. Through impact investing, individual and institutional investors alike are unleashing the power of their capital for social and environmental good. What is impact …
The Truth about City Transport
The Truth about City Transport Lockdown measures in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic prompted a massive social experiment among the world’s workforce: the shift to working from home. Because of restrictions on most social and economic activities, congested city streets suddenly found themselves cleared of traffic. A number of public transport services also …
How COVID-19 Impacts the Urban Poor
How COVID-19 Impacts the Urban Poor At a time when physical distancing is considered a crucial step for preventing the spread of disease, life in a densely populated urban community can be exceptionally challenging. Recent studies have shown how “denser locations [are] more likely to have an early outbreak,” as seen in the rising number …
Earth Day 2021: Let’s Restore our Earth
On Earth Day 2021, let’s rise to the challenge and “Restore our Earth” – the theme of this year’s celebration. We present six ways for us to heed the call:
How Impact Investing can Advance Equity for Women
Investors and funders must abandon the idea that capital alone is sufficient to transform inequitable systems. They must interrogate the power dynamics underlying their decisions and operations to meet the complex challenges of racial, gender, and economic inequality, moving from a “power over” to a “power with” approach. Failure to integrate this analysis will likely …
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Climate Change and the Ocean
Climate change is negatively impacting our oceans, the people, and the ecosystems that depend on them. This flowchart outlines the cause and effect of global warming, sea-level rise, and resulting ecosystem changes.
