(Outlet: The Hill) President Biden is making the case that fighting climate change can create jobs, countering a key Republican narrative surrounding the autoworker strike. …Read More
The Impact Finance Research Consortium (IFRC) has released a detailed report shedding new light on the features and applications of catalytic capital, investments bearing a high level of risk or accepting lower returns to stimulate positive social and environmental outcomes that would likely not be possible otherwise.…Read More
(Outlet: Forbes Online) The United States loses immigrants and international students to Canada. New research shows Canada’s startup visa policy has encouraged immigrants in the U.S. to move to Canada. …Read More
(Outlet: The Magazine of the Sierra Club) ESG has landed in the crosshairs of conservative organizations, networks, politicians, and investors, while evidence is mounting that anti-ESG legislation could lose, not grow, investors’ money.…Read More
(Outlet: WHYY) More than 57% of Philly public school buildings lack adequate cooling systems. As climate change makes extreme heat more likely, students are bearing the consequences.…Read More
(Outlet: Wired)
The world needs thousands of new grid battery installations to fight climate change. They rarely catch fire—but many people are skeptical of having one next door.…Read More
Wharton graduate Suzanne Biegel is a global leader in gender-smart investing who has influenced billions of dollars in capital. Biegel, 60, was recently diagnosed with terminal lung cancer and has been candid about her health. She said her illness has brought even sharper focus to her lifelong mission of gender equality and solutions to the climate crisis. This year, she and her husband, Daniel Maskit, invested $1 million to launch an endowment toward those goals. Biegel, a New Yorker who currently lives in London and has dual citizenship, spoke by phone to a reporter for the Wharton School about her career, her association with the school, and what she hopes will be a lasting legacy of change.…Read More
Turner ESG Fellow and WIVA Investment Associate Teadora Dragic, C’25, explores how businesses can invest in the social determinants of health and the communities they operate in.…Read More
Turner ESG Fellow Kristin Tingle, W ’23 C’23, researches how employee-owned businesses perform against environmental, social, governance, and financial metrics.…Read More
Turner ESG Fellow Marielle Kang, C’24, investigates how climate adaptive agricultural technologies can solve for some of our most complex environmental and social issues.…Read More
