Eleven outstanding Dutch social entrepreneurs were in San Francisco Bay Area in mid-October during SOCAP, offering partnership and learning takeaways from their social entrepreneurship successes in the Netherlands.
Insurance giant Swiss Re is switching the entire $130 billion it holds in liquid assets to index against ESG benchmarks, in a huge move towards principled investments that is certain to sway its industry.
Global assets professionally managed under sustainable and responsible investment (SRI) strategies grew to nearly $23 trillion from $18.3 trillion in 2014, according to GSIA Global Sustainable Investment Alliance's biennial report. Climate change, China and the increasing awareness of sustainability were the main drivers.