Year: 2023

Secret Deodorant Launches Financial Literacy Resources to Help Create a Stress-Free Financial Future for Young Women

Stuart Mitchell

With the support of strategic financial wellness partners, Secret Deodorant proudly announces the launch ofSecret U,an educational platform granting millions of young women access to financial literacy tools. Secret teamed up with Boss Women Media, Open Path Psychotherapy Collective, and well-known female financial experts to shed light on the critical need for accessible financial resources and the burden of financial stress. The newly launched resources build on the brand’s multi-year financial empowerment initiative to help women take control of their financial well-being by removing barriers to achieve financial equity. Through…

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Landmark Oceans Futures Platform Projects the Arctic, Gulf of Guinea, and Central Pacific to be among future climate-driven fisheries conflict hotspots

Stuart Mitchell

World Wildlife Fund (WWF) announced the launch of its Oceans Futures platform, a first-of-its-kind initiative that projects seascapes surrounding the Arctic Ocean and within the Gulf of Guinea, Eastern Mediterranean, Eastern Tropical Pacific, and Central Pacific will experience increased fisheries conflict as a result of climate change. The analysis, based on global climate and fisheries models, highlights 20 regions of the world that will likely see conflict, food insecurity, or geo-political tensions over fisheries rise by 2030. These regions include the waters surrounding the Arctic Ocean, Cameroon, Syria, Ecuador, Indonesia,…

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Newly released resources for private equity investors will help evaluate portfolio progress toward net zero

Stuart Mitchell

Ceres welcomes two important new resources for private equity investors to help them evaluate and communicate the progress their portfolio companies are making towards net zero. Last week the Initiative Climate International (iCI) and the Sustainable Markets Initiative’s Private Equity Task Force, supported by Bain & Company, launched the Private Markets Decarbonization Roadmap (PMDR). This tool is for measuring and communicating private company alignment with net zero and was developed in consultation with Ceres, CDP, GFANZ, IIGCC, ILPA, and PRI.  It adds to existing private equity guidance for measuring the…

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Ocean Raises the Reef, in partnership with the Coral Restoration Foundation

Stuart Mitchell

Applications for Drops in the Ocean 2024 are now open. Ocean have opened their charity iniative with the following post on their website: Under the Drops in the Ocean initiative, Ocean commits 2% of our annual reported revenue in advertising to charities, non-profits, and organisations working to reverse climate change and repair the planet.  This year, we’re supporting 12 causes, including the internationally renowned Coral Restoration Foundation™ (CRF™). Our goal is to amplify awareness of the Foundation’s global reef restoration programmes and to rebuild and safeguard critical marine habitat –…

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BNP Paribas grants the first Inclusive & Sustainability-Linked Financing to three major microfinance players in France, Italy and Brazil

Stuart Mitchell

Over the past several years, BNP Paribas has been very active in Sustainability-Linked Loans (SLL), which aim to foster companies to improve their ESG performance by directly linking the financial conditions of the loan to primarily environmental but also social or governance objectives. By end September 2023, BNP Paribas was No. 1 worldwide and in EMEA in sustainable finance[1]. BNP Paribas has been supporting microfinance institutions for over 30 years. By drawing on their expertise in Sustainability-Linked Loans (SLL), the bank aims to adapt this financial mechanism to microfinance through Inclusive & Sustainability-Linked…

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