Jessica Pothering

Airlines are pouring money and resources into the development of sustainable aviation fuels to offset the 3% of global emissions (and

Incorporating both climate and gender angles in an investment thesis is table stakes for fund managers seeking to attract investors, one general partner observed at a convening of for emerging market managers in Dar es Salaam two years ago. Since then,

Kasha Global launched in 2016 to improve access to menstrual care products, contraceptives and pharmaceuticals for low-income women in Africa. Customers can order goods and medications from even feature mobile phones. A network of mostly female agents handles last-mile delivery in Rwanda, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya and South Africa, and soon, West Africa.

Social interventions have long been considered harder to measure and manage than environmental ones. But countries, companies and investors have persisted in experimenting with investments in social impact themes.

WIC Capital backed Wood Packaging Industry, which uses sustainably sourced wood for locally-made pallets for moving goods and shipping. Wood Packaging Industry company ...

The government of Zambia in 2021 committed $200 million to a fund aimed at building an investable pipeline and catalyzing private capital to high-impact, local investment opportunities.

The ice is starting to thaw for private market fundraising after a frigid couple of years.

Fashion “is an industry where there's a lot of concentrated power, privilege and wealth, and an industry that's been known to be extractive for my community,” says Edgar Villanueva of the Decolonizing Wealth Project and a member of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina.