Suzuki Motor Corp. launched a dedicated $40 million impact fund 18 months ago for startups in India, the Japanese automaker’s biggest market. While most corporate venture funds focus on investment ...

The term “monitoring” undersells what this function should be in modern advisory practice. Rather than serving as just a compliance exercise or back-office task, effective monitoring can offer a ...

Los Angeles-based Oro raised $3 million to help companies provide homeownership and housing benefits to employees. Venture firm Slauson & Co. led the round, with participation from insurance giant ...

In South Africa, a solar microgrid serves a 101-unit residential complex in Sandton, an upscale suburb north of Johannesburg. In Brazil, more than two dozen community solar projects lower the cost of ...

The climate crisis is an all hands on deck problem, and all the hands need to be aware of what the others are doing. The following Climate Finance Trackers are designed to help climate funders and ...

Charting AI’s course to an inclusive economic future. Local grocers, bookshops and bakeries – long the backbone of communities – are struggling to compete with a few tech-driven and AI-enabled firms. ...

Hanging from a scale mounted on a steel beam in a cavernous industrial space in west Berkeley, Calif., is a large plastic bag filled with a ton of carbon. The colorless, odorless gas, extracted from ...

PosiGen, a Brookfield Asset Management-backed home solar company focused on lower-income communities, is the latest US solar company to go bust. It joins other one-time high-flyers such as SunPower, ...

At the Blue Economy and Finance Forum in Monaco last June, €8.7 billion in new commitments poured in from private, public and philanthropic sources to invest in the sustainable ocean economy.

The UK and Kenya-based consumer finance company M-KOPA is nearing a close on roughly $160 million in Series F equity financing, led by its longtime investor, Sumitomo Corporation, ImpactAlpha has ...