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No need to wait to access our investment partners’ insights. Our Mid-Year Market Outlook, featuring BlueCove, Westfield Capital Management, and Jennison Associates, is available on-demand. Benefit from three distinct points of view on what you should consider as we move into the next year. https://lnkd.in/dt22VRQz

If you are at Loop Forum next week, and curious about how Nefco - the Nordic Green Bank can help your circular business scale internationally, come and have a talk with my colleague Vivi Avikainen and myself at stand 90!

Carbon Fund is back with a 4th season!!! 🤩 In 2019, Saint-Gobain Group committed to achieving the objective of “Net Zero Emissions” by 2050. To make it happen, each one of us, regardless of our role or position, has a part to play. That's why, in 2021, we introduced the #CarbonFund in the Northern Europe Region.   This initiative aims to accelerate the reduction of non-industrial CO2 emissions through the daily actions of our team members and targeted investments in our sites. Over the past three years, 3,280 ideas have been proposed by our employees. Thanks to their innovation and dedication, projects initiated in the Region are already showing promising results!   Season 4 comes with new features to engage even more colleagues in our journey:   ✔️ All employees will have the opportunity to take part in the vote for the winning iconic projects at Regional level. ✔️ The chance to bring back iconic projects not chosen in previous editions. ✔️ We're expanding the perimeter of proposed projects to include Scope 3, alongside water-saving initiatives.   Our employees’ ideas and creativity are the fuel that drives this program forward. Many thanks to all of them and let’s get this 4th edition started!

🚀📈 Revent just published our 2023 impact report and I wanted to highlight a couple of things that we're particularly proud of: 🌟 An impact multiple (performance vis-a-vis goals) that's over 5x(!) 👩💼 Twice the European average of female founders in our portfolio 🌍 Almost 100% of our companies, despite their super early-stage, already implementing measures to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions And above all, it's just a delight to reflect on all the ways in which Revent portfolio companies are aggressively moving the world forward: 🌱 Increasing access to renewable energy (tem.) 🏥 Bringing specialized healthcare to underserved areas (Mirantus Health) 💡 Completely rethinking fertilizers (NetZeroNitrogen) 🌲 Enabling significantly more investment into carbon removal (CarbonPool) A huge shout-out to all of the Revent founders out there doing the work every day; to our LPs whose trust makes this all possible; and to the amazing Sharon Chen who was so in the weeds on the impact measurement and is driving a completely new and, if I may, extremely awesome v2 of our impact approach which we'll announce soon.🔥 🚀 You can check out the full (public) report here: 📊📑 https://lnkd.in/dkKwcv4A cc: Otto Birnbaum Henrik Grosse Hokamp Rebecca Brill Franca Pullem

No need to wait to access our investment partners’ insights. Our Mid-Year Market Outlook, featuring BlueCove, Westfield Capital Management, and Jennison Associates is available on-demand. Benefit from three distinct points of view on what you should consider as we move into the next year. https://lnkd.in/efpwQHM5

This month, during B Corp Month, is about showing the world how we move forward, together. Because B Corp certification is only a beginning, not a destination. At VP Capital, our new impact strategy shows how we plan to move forward and want to make more impact. Central pillars in our strategy are three challenges: Climate, Biodiversity and Social equality. All our activities and investments are aimed at contributing to solutions for these challenges.   ‘Climate’ has already been a focus point in the past and has been integrated for a great deal into our processes. For example, we annually calculate the carbon footprint of our own operations and of our portfolio companies, we measure the progress towards our validated science-based targets, our reduction plans are in motion and we offset our remaining emissions. Still, there is plenty of room for improvement. We strive to be gold-label carbon-neutral certified this year by our partner CO2logic, a South Pole company, which means that we include 100% of our investments in our carbon footprint calculations and set strict reduction targets.   Read more on our website about our impact strategy, these challenges and much more!   B Lab Benelux #BCorpMonth #bcorp #vpcapital #familyoffice #drivenbyimpact

SouthCol Advisors’s Jeanne Elliott Enright spoke on the Sustainable Investing panel at this week’s Envestnet, Inc Elevate Conference. A few notable perspectives from the discussion: Sustainable investing is here to stay. Mission-aligned portfolio customization provides an opportunity to build deep client relationships. Client interest in sustainability continues to grow.   Thanks to Anup Sharma for facilitating an engaging conversation with panelists Bud Sturmak, CFP®, Edwin K.S. Ryu, CPA, PFS, CRE, Matthew Tonsager, and Jeanne Elliott Enright.   #MissionInvesting #EmpoweringPortfolios #EnvestnetElevate #InvestingForMission #Sustainability #ENVElevate

🎉 Day 10 of our Texas Impact Enterprise Awards honoree announcements! We're excited to announce this year's Corporate Champions, a distinguished group of organizations that have demonstrated outstanding leadership and innovation within the business sector. These champions have not only excelled in their industries but have also made significant contributions to their communities and the broader economy. HKS, Inc.: Established in 2014 with a core mission of enhancing lives and communities, Citizen HKS harnesses the power of design, volunteerism, and financial philanthropy to uplift communities and drive positive change. Through HKS, the Citizen HKS initiative provides pro bono design service grants to apply design thinking towards positive social change. Octopus Energy US: Texas is awash in beautiful carbon-free electrons. By intelligently using power when renewables are abundant and curtailing usage when renewables are scarce, we are creating deeply decarbonized energy products that are cheaper than "standard" energy rates in the market. This is the unique trifecta of reducing carbon, saving Texans money, and stabilizing the grid at the same time. SWA Group: At SWA Group, we believe landscape architecture, planning, and urban design can be a transformative force for improving the health and well-being of people and natural systems. Serving Texas for almost 50 years, SWA has delivered creative, resilient, multi-benefit design on more than 500 projects statewide. #TexasImpactAwards #CommunityImpact #Changemakers