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Blog Archives: October 2019

• Invest in a More Resilient Economy and Build a More Resilient Portfolio

October 30, 2019
Catherine Berman, CNote
Impact investing provides more than impact. Diversification and counter-cyclical investments can create standalone value for investors, especially as risk assets get pricier. To some, impact investing is a concessionary exercise where you sacrifice returns and financial rigor to "do good." However, those more in tune with the goal of impact investing know it does not have to be about trading a financial loss for a social gain. Impact investing can drive smart investment choices that both bring in strong financial returns and have a societal ...

• Renewable Energy: A Dialogue Addressing Investment Opportunities

October 09, 2019
How can experienced renewable energy project investors find new opportunities? What makes an investment attractive? What are Green Banks, and how can they help identify new deals? Confluence, in partnership with the Energy Foundation, organized a renewable energy investing roundtable discussion entitled Renewable Energy: A dialogue addressing investment opportunities at the UN Climate Week. The meeting was generously hosted at The Surdna Foundation. The focus of the convening was the innovative Green Banks model, which is a nationwide ...

• RiskShift: Communicating Climate Risks to Investors

October 09, 2019
Despite the increasing urgency to act in the face of climate change and the scale of the problem, the rate of investments deployed toward creating climate solutions remains severely insufficient. The IPCC estimates that investments in renewable energy alone need to double from the current level of $250B per year to meet the annual global growth in electricity consumption and to decarbonize the existing energy systems. Moreover, studies estimate that if no immediate action is taken and temperatures increase by 2°C, the global GDP will fall 15% ...

• CONFLUENCE MEMBERS UNITE DURING CLIMATE WEEK

October 01, 2019
Last week saw the meeting of leaders from more than 70 countries at the UN Climate Action Summit in New York, in the midst of the highly publicized Worldwide Climate Strike championed by Greta Thunberg and other youth activists. Sadly, the desired advances in the 2015 Paris Agreement were not achieved due to the refusal of the world’s leading polluters to make significant new commitments. Indeed, the United States remains poised to pull out of the Paris Agreement despite having experienced its first rise in emissions last year, after years of ...

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