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The decision to host COP30 in Belém, Brazil placed the Amazon — the world’s most critical natural resource — at the center of global climate action. The summit shifted the global climate discussion ...

When we speak with donors and philanthropists about AI for climate and nature, we often hear the same refrain: “It’s promising, but we are waiting to see how it evolves.” A Project Evident report on ...

Worker ownership is becoming more common, as worker-owned cooperatives — and investment funds looking to support them — multiply. Less so: worker-owned holding companies with multiple businesses in ...

While career offices and impact clubs host panels that draw hundreds of MBA students, there has historically been little data on how many impact investing jobs are out there, or who ends up working ...

At the dawn of the computer age, coding was seen as so rote that a 1968 career guide suggested that women who like “cooking from a cookbook” would make good programmers. And indeed, they did.

ImpactAlpha’s deal news coverage for the week: Affordable housing. American South Capital Partners raised $60 million for affordable housing in the southern US. Blue economy. Katapult Ocean, Alwyn ...

The voluntary market for carbon credits has been haunted by low quality projects and greenwashing. Prices for the credits, which enable companies to offset their own carbon emissions, have plummeted ...

San Francisco-based Raise Robotics makes robots to automate high-risk construction jobs, improve workplace safety and cut construction costs. Founders Gary Chen and Conley Oster started the company in ...

Building markets for lifesaving drugs in Africa. Forging channels for daily products in India. Derisking the clean energy pipeline in coal guzzling South Africa. In the past decade, British ...

Only a few people in the world can afford to be fitted for a bespoke, tailored suit. It is a very expensive, complex, time-consuming process that requires masters of the craft. But the end result fits ...

It is almost impossible to satirize the tech bros these days when even the most far-fetched or sensational stories still hold a nugget of truth. Case in point: see the recent masterclass in trolling ...