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Seedlings. Impact investing directs investment capital to enterprises delivering positive environmental and social impacts, and could play an important role in financing sustainable development (Photo: Geoff Maddock, Creative Commons via Flickr)

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Business as usual – or business with purpose?

A group of young women protestors with placards, one reading "Your profits can't buy another planet"

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Ten reasons why we have to rewrite the sustainability rule book, and now

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Green Economy Coalition

A young man on a hillside, planting a tree.

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When investors go green

Garment workers in Bangladesh - increasing automation threatens low-cost manufacturing jobs in developing countries (Photo: NYU Stern BHR, Creative Commons via Flickr)

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Automation, the changing world of work, and sustainable development

Fishing in Kenya's Lake Naivasha provides income for local people, but fish stocks have declined sharply due to over-fishing and the diversion of water for agriculture (Photo: Cheryl Q, Creative Commons via Flicker)

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Green lessons for the blue economy

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Forest business incubation: the heartbeat of healthy landscape livelihoods

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Automation and inequality: the changing world of work in the global South

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Managing the environmental and social risks of hydropower: private and public roles

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Informality and inclusive green growth

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Pro-poor, inclusive green growth: experience and a new agenda

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Increasing private sector involvement and investment in forestry in Nepal

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a young man walks along an irrigation channel

Jobs, nature and the Green New Deal: lessons from the global South

Blog, Jan 2020

A beautiful coastline but, in the foreground, a woman is sorting a huge pile of plastic bottles

Wanted: corporate global citizens to deliver the SDGs

Blog, Jan 2020

Wind turbines on the top of a hill

Is Davos signalling the end of business as usual?

Blog, Jan 2020

A group of young women protestors with placards, one reading "Your profits can't buy another planet"

Ten reasons why we have to rewrite the sustainability rule book, and now

Blog, Dec 2019

A young man on a hillside, planting a tree.

When investors go green

Blog, Nov 2019

Close-up image of cotton growing

Q&A: Ready for impact?

Interview, Nov 2019

An African man makes a speech in front of a banner in Chinese

Our previous work on China

Article, Aug 2019

Three men look out over a pond

China in the world

Article, Aug 2019

An oil rig silhouetted at sunset

Critical theme: The polluter elite, inequality and the ecological crisis

Event, Jun 2019

Seedlings. Impact investing directs investment capital to enterprises delivering positive environmental and social impacts, and could play an important role in financing sustainable development (Photo: Geoff Maddock, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Business as usual – or business with purpose?

Blog, Apr 2019

CANARI’s Radar tool helps small and micro enterprises assess their impacts. Here Kemba Jaramogi from Fondes Amandes Community Reforestation Project in Trinidad and Tobago presents their Radar. (Photo: CANARI)

Time to turn the PAGE?

Blog, Jan 2019

Fishing in Kenya's Lake Naivasha provides income for local people, but fish stocks have declined sharply due to over-fishing and the diversion of water for agriculture (Photo: Cheryl Q, Creative Commons via Flicker)

Green lessons for the blue economy

Blog, Dec 2018