Business & Finance

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Miner joins Climate X as Climate Science Advisor

Climate X aims to enable global resilience through quantifying the potential physical risks and impacts, and delivering this in a way that is easily actionable to decision-makers.
May 5, 2022
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Embracing Limits: A Case for Economic Thresholds to Mitigate the Global Climate, Biodiversity, and Equity Crises

"Inequity is a choice that we make as a global society through the economic systems that we hold up as legitimate," Paloma Henriques argues in her articles for Spire's 2022 issue on minimum and maximum economic thresholds.
May 5, 2022
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Suiseeya to speak at FP Virtual Climate Summit

Foreign Policy's second annual Climate Summit focuses on The Transition to Net Zero | Making Good on COP26 Commitments. Kimberly Marion Suiseeya will present on Fostering a Just Transition - Ensuring Marginalized Communities Have a Seat at the Table.
April 18, 2022
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Janelle Heslop: Leading industry toward sustainability and equity

Combining her drive for sustainability, innovation, and diversity, Janelle Heslop leads a $1B project to drive impact in operations. “I don't dream about jobs. I dream about impact,” Heslop says. “I want to manage, run, lead projects that are having a meaningful impact in the world, making it prepared for future challenges like climate change, leveraging emerging ideas and innovation to create a healthier, more equitable society.”
April 13, 2022
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Wironen promoted to Director of Corporate Engagement, Food and Water at TNC

In his new role, Michael Wironen leads TNC's engagement with the private sector in food, agriculture, freshwater, and fisheries globally.
April 13, 2022
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Bouzoubaa takes role as Senior Data Climate Specialist at Bloomberg

As part of the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero team, Zineb will be using data to drive the global financial sector’s work to ensure financing and capital allocation decisions enable the world to reach net zero by 2050 and combat the worst effects of global climate change.
March 17, 2022
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Cronin awarded 2022 Smith Fellowship

For her Smith Fellowship research, Melissa Cronin will complete a project titled, “Conservation and Food Security Implications of Large- and Small-Scale Fisheries Interactions”. The Smith Fellowship seeks to identify and support early-career scientists who will shape the growth of applied conservation science.
March 16, 2022
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Kartikeya Singh: Bureaucracies for the Better

To continue to lift its population out of poverty, India should give its energy ministries a new mandate—moving the country away from coal and toward a more sustainable economy.
March 5, 2022
Foundation News

Foundation invests in community development financial institutions

Although an all-time high of $14 trillion in deposits is sitting in U.S. banks, estimates suggest that less than 1% of those funds are in socially impactful options. As part of our continued efforts to align all our practices with our...
February 14, 2022
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Espinoza hired as Senior Program Associate at The Erol Foundation

In this new role, Demi will support The Erol Foundation's climate action and climate solution philanthropic portfolios.
February 9, 2022