The role of impact investing & your role in the change.
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Welcome to week 5! This week is all about growing our awareness about the alternative ways to create impact, tend our economies, & channel money. Unfortunately, we won’t have time to introduce you to all of the different things that are being discussed & practiced out there - and we want you to at least have one or two ways that help you navigate the bigger picture of finance systems change. This will involve your own exploration of what is out there and sharing with the rest of the cohort. What are organizations, ideas, and initiatives that are alive in making impact happen across the field?
This week’s community call will give us another chance to connect to our role in the change, feel where we have clarity & questions that pull us forward. Join us to discuss and to explore the possible realities that are being created and acted upon so that we can get inspired for our own work. We count on your participation.
We also recommend you to make it to this week’s skill sessions with 👩🦰Lisa Hayles and 👦David Carlin! Lisa explains one of the best tools asset managers have to make change possible by using engagement and shareholder resolutions to advocate for issues. David will further explore what Leon mentioned last week when it comes to risk in the financial system and how without change our system is headed for collapse.
Recommended Resources:
🎞 - Kate Raworth (video, 7 min)
📜 - Cassie Robinson (article, 7 min)
And here an extended list of alternatives we really appreciate
We'd also love to give you the chance to do a little deep dive into one of them. Here is one example deep dive for an emergent alternative practice in the space of economic relalities.
from the Kingdom of Bhutan
- global, Austria & Germany started
in Wales
to live well, not better, from Latin America and South America
, encourages economic design to serve people & planet, not the other way around
in Scotland
- global, US started
- global, local cities using
- global, local communities/cities practicing a new paradigm
There is no agreed definition of degrowth, but at its most basic it is ‘a planned reduction of excess energy and resource use to bring the economy back into balance with the living world in a safe, just and equitable way’ (). This can mean reducing economic activity in areas we deem socially or environmentally harmful whilst expanding others we deem socially necessary.
🎬“Degrowth explained” 2015 - Grist ()
📄What is Degrowth - ()
📕 - Jason Hickel () 🎇 - Timothée Parrique (Post)
Additionally, we’ve been invited to some great partner events from the Cleantech Open Accelerator, and the Finance for Biodiversity (FfB) Foundation. Be sure to check out our for a current listing of all events we’ve created and curated for you (the recordings are linked here as well).
This is a very exciting event as we will be celebrating over 40 cleantech startups that will have completed the 2024 Cleantech Open accelerator as part of the Northeast cohort. The event features a Showcase of all of the graduating startups, pitches (on stage) by the 6 finalists, live judging, cash awards, and networking. It's a celebration of cleantech innovation. We expect over 250 people to attend. To get a sense of this event, please see the (held at Newlab in Brooklyn, NY) and our .
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For nearly 40 years, Trillium Asset Management has been at the forefront of ESG thought leadership and draws from decades of experience focused exclusively on responsible investing. Trillium uses a holistic, fully integrated fundamental investment process to uncover compelling long-term investment opportunities. Devoted to aligning stakeholders’ values and objectives, Trillium combines impactful investment solutions with active ownership. Are you curious about the approaches that Trillium uses? Think this session will be a great challenge to the industry in general and how much traditional Asset Management needs to change. Join this talk with Lisa Hayles who is the Director of International Shareholder Advocacy, overseeing engagement with corporate leadership on environmental, social, and governance issues. If you are curious to go deeper into the topic you can use check out this event we did in the spring with Kate Monahan when went deep into the topic and gave a helpful overview of Proxy Voting
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👦 David Carlin is the founder of Cambium Global Solutions, an advisor to governments, corporates, and financial institutions on climate and sustainability. He has authored numerous reports that provide practical tools and guidance to firms looking to thrive in a changing world. David led the creation of UNEP FI’s risk programming. David is now reporting a lot through his lense of risk analysis in United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) and does a lot of other really great things like having a great LinkedIn page to follow. Register here -
