This Week in Impact

This Week in Impact. Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: Climate on the ballot: ⁠https://impactalpha.com/mexico-chooses-a-new-president-amid-extreme-heat-and-little-urgency-on-climate-action/⁠ Impact accounting standards: ⁠https://impactalpha.com/a-decade-in-the-making-impact-accounting-standards-advance-amid-investor-demand/⁠ Bridging a ‘missing middle’ for commercial climate solutions: ⁠https://impactalpha.com/flexible-financing-to-bridge-a-missing-middle-for-commercial-climate-solutions/⁠ Sign up for ImpactAlpha LatAm: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://impactalpha.com/latam-newsletter-email/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Subscribe to ImpactAlpha: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://impactalpha.com/subscribe/⁠⁠⁠⁠ This episode featured music by Isaac Silk and by ⁠⁠⁠⁠Yurii Semchyshyn⁠⁠⁠⁠.

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week New impact products: ⁠https://impactalpha.com/impact-products-aim-to-shift-portfolio-allocations-in-bonds-private-credit-and-cash/⁠ Entrepreneurial households in industrious communities: ⁠https://impactalpha.com/calls/⁠ The rise of worker empowerment: ⁠https://impactalpha.com/how-reducing-income-inequality-can-strengthen-the-global-economy-and-portfolio-performance/⁠ Sign up for ImpactAlpha LatAm: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://impactalpha.com/latam-newsletter-email/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Subscribe to ImpactAlpha: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://impactalpha.com/subscribe/⁠⁠⁠⁠ This episode featured music by Isaac Silk and by ⁠⁠⁠⁠Yurii Semchyshyn⁠⁠⁠⁠.

This Week in Impact. Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: David dives into the divergent differing vibes at Mission Investors Exchange and the Milken Institute Global Conference. Plus a call for efforts to sustainably harvest the metals needed for the energy transition. Tonya Allen Q+A: ⁠https://impactalpha.com/mcknights-tonya-allen-philanthropy-has-right-and-responsibility-to-counter-dei-attacks/⁠ Laura Callanan: ⁠https://impactalpha.com/capital-the-creative-economy-and-a-quarter-century-of-lessons-learned-in-impact-investing/⁠ Sustainable Mining: ⁠https://impactalpha.com/esg-will-be-key-to-supplying-green-metals-needed-for-the-energy-transition/⁠ Sign up for ImpactAlpha LatAm: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://impactalpha.com/latam-newsletter-email/⁠⁠⁠ Subscribe to ImpactAlpha: ⁠⁠⁠https://impactalpha.com/subscribe/⁠⁠ This episode featured music by Isaac Silk and by ⁠⁠Yurii Semchyshyn⁠⁠.

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: The state of blended finance: ⁠https://impactalpha.com/blended-finance-rebounds-in-2023-with-focus-on-climate-and-bigger-deals/⁠ How Big Tech can restore both forests – and credibility - in voluntary carbon markets: ⁠https://impactalpha.com/how-big-tech-can-restore-forests-and-credibility-in-voluntary-carbon-markets/⁠ Why The California Wellness Foundation is putting a diversity, equity and inclusion lens on 100% of its $1 billion endowment: ⁠https://impactalpha.com/investment-manager-diversity-matters-when-investing-for-health-equity/⁠ Sign up for ImpactAlpha LatAm: ⁠⁠⁠https://impactalpha.com/latam-newsletter-email/⁠⁠ Subscribe to ImpactAlpha: ⁠⁠https://impactalpha.com/subscribe/⁠⁠

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: Family offices have the opportunity to invest in the climate transition: ⁠https://impactalpha.com/the-climate-transition-and-investment-opportunities-for-family-offices/⁠ Three leading foundations make for-profit investments in an OpenAI competitor: ⁠https://impactalpha.com/with-stakes-in-anthropic-impact-investors-seek-a-seat-at-the-ai-table/⁠ The brou-ha-ha over whether voluntary carbon credits should count towards a company’s climate targets: ⁠https://impactalpha.com/with-stakes-in-anthropic-impact-investors-seek-a-seat-at-the-ai-table/⁠ Take advantage of ImpactAlpha's 10 year anniverary sale: ⁠https://impactalpha.com/subscribe/⁠ Sign up for ImpactAlpha LatAm: ⁠https://impactalpha.com/latam-newsletter-email/

Brian Walsh and ImpactAlpha editor David Bank take up the good news on the good economy, Participant Media’s lasting legacy and the signs of change at the World Bank. Plus: an exclusive early listen to the electrifying single, “I’m Your Heat Pump.” To learn more about heat pumps and home electrification, visit The Switch is On and Rewiring America websites. Sign up for The Switch is On monthly newsletter and receive an email featuring the “(I’m Your) Heat Pump” music video. Rob's column: ⁠https://impactalpha.com/good-economy-actually-is-good-news-as-impact-investors-adjust-to-new-realities/⁠ Participant Media ⁠https://impactalpha.com/shutdown-of-participant-media-challenges-other-investors-to-drive-impact-through-film/⁠ World Bank: ⁠https://impactalpha.com/spring-meetings-yield-green-shoots-of-development-finance-reform-at-the-world-bank/⁠ Sign up for our free LatAm newsletter: ⁠⁠⁠https://impactalpha.com/latam-newsletter-email/⁠⁠⁠ Subscribe to ImpactAlpha: ⁠⁠⁠https://impactalpha.com/subscribe/⁠

Brian and David explore the federal funds that are catalyzing capital to reconnect communities from the legacy of racial segregation, the huge impact investing opportunity in Puerto Rico, and the mechanisms that investors and business owners are using to exit to employees. Links to this week's stories: Reconnecting communities - ⁠https://impactalpha.com/with-bridges-buses-and-bike-lanes-reconnecting-communities-rebuilds-civic-muscles-along-with-neighborhoods/⁠ Impact in PR - ⁠https://impactalpha.com/the-impact-investing-opportunity-in-puerto-ricos-economic-comeback/⁠ Employee ownership exits - ⁠https://impactalpha.com/with-elbos-and-eots-more-business-owners-are-exiting-to-employee-ownership/⁠ Sign up for our free LatAm newsletter: ⁠⁠https://impactalpha.com/latam-newsletter-email/⁠⁠ Subscribe to ImpactAlpha: ⁠⁠https://impactalpha.com/subscribe/⁠⁠ This episode featured music by Isaac Silk and by ⁠⁠Yurii Semchyshyn⁠⁠.

Brian and David continue to unpack the EPA’s blockbuster $20 billion in government grants to mobilize commercial investment in climate solutions, learn lessons from dozens of blended finance transactions, and discuss how shareholders are voting to have companies mitigate economy-wide risks. Links to this week's stories: ⁠https://impactalpha.com/investors-ready-products-to-amplify-us-green-bank-funding/⁠ ⁠https://impactalpha.com/blending-billions-lessons-from-more-than-three-dozen-big-blended-finance-transactions/⁠ ⁠https://impactalpha.com/with-systems-first-proposals-shareholders-seek-to-mitigate-economy-wide-risks/⁠ Sign up for our free LatAm newsletter: ⁠https://impactalpha.com/latam-newsletter-email/⁠ Subscribe to ImpactAlpha: ⁠https://impactalpha.com/subscribe/

Brian Walsh and David Bank discuss the players likely to receive massive funding from the EPA to create a national green bank, how people are investing in Brazil’s impact economy, and how a $75 million ‘basket bond’ is catalyzing climate lending to small businesses in emerging markets. Read more: Green bank: ⁠https://impactalpha.com/epas-new-partners-plot-a-27-billion-path-to-a-us-green-bank/⁠ Basket bonds: ⁠https://impactalpha.com/how-a-75-million-basket-bond-is-catalyzing-climate-lending-to-small-businesses-in-emerging-markets/⁠ Brazilian impact ecosystem: ⁠https://impactalpha.com/the-path-to-growth-in-brazil-runs-through-the-impact-economy-videos⁠ Sign up for ImpactAlpha LatAm: ⁠⁠https://impactalpha.com/latam-newsletter-email/⁠

David Bank joins Brian Walsh to discuss some of the top stories from ImpactAlpha this week. Stories mentioned on the podcast: Texas boots Blackrock: ⁠https://impactalpha.com/texas-boots-blackrock-saddling-texans-with-the-costs-of-its-campaign-against-esg/⁠ Clean cooking: ⁠https://impactalpha.com/leveraging-the-carbon-markets-for-clean-cooking-climate-justice-and-social-impact/⁠ Vanguard gets punked: ⁠https://impactalpha.com/elaborate-spoof-takes-aim-at-vanguards-retreat-from-climate-commitments/⁠⁠ Agents of Impact Call 60: ⁠https://impactalpha.com/calls/⁠