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Meet Dr Barbara Dubach, Managing Director and Founder of Engageability and Executive Director of Innovate 4 Nature, who will be one of our distinguished guest speakers for the new Executive Certificate in Nature-Positive Economy, starting on 24 June 2024. Could you...
Lucile Maertens is associate professor in political science and international relations at the Geneva Graduate Institute and co-director of the Global Governance Centre. We are delighted to have her on board for the first edition of the Executive Certificate in...
Meet Marco Lambertini, Convener of the Nature Positive Initiative and guest speaker for the new Executive Certificate in Nature-Positive Economy, starting on 24 June. Could you tell us more about your professional experience? I am the Convener of the Nature Positive...
Low and middle-income countries must mobilise domestic resources to finance sustainable development and address growing social and environmental challenges in the face of shrinking foreign aid. Yet, illicit financial flows (IFFs) erode their tax base. For...
At the 2024 annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF), world leaders shared an increasing sense of urgency to effectively address climate change, biodiversity loss, and environmental degradation. The scientific evidence is clear, but action lags behind, and the...
Increasing investment into sustainable development projects will require rewriting the rules for pension funds, working with well-informed partners, and performance-related incentives for local government officials, writes Nathan Sussman. In 2015, the United Nations...
1. Addressing grand challenges in social and environmental justice through sustainable finance Nowadays, sustainable finance, focusing on social and environmental justice, is omnipresent. Achieving these justices means meeting what management now knows as grand...
The Geneva Graduate Institute and NORRAG launch a new Executive Education course in Innovative Financing for Education, in partnership with IIEP-UNESCO and with support from the Jacobs Foundation. The course will be delivered fully online from 3 March 2023 to 30 June...
Microfinance for small-scale farmers – what is it? Microfinance is a term which entered the mainstream financial jargon in the past decades, although since the late 90’s it is described as “financial inclusion”¹. Agri-lending in the microfinance context refers to...
Nathan Sussman, Professor of Economics, and Co-Director of the Master of Advanced Studies on Sustainable Finance and Development at the Graduate Institute, explains how carbon tax can lower emissions while having virtually no adverse effects on business activity and...
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