Climate & Environment

Environmental Strategies to Fight Poverty

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From Reaction to Prevention: Using Remittances to Act Before Climate Crises Hit

As climate-related disasters become more frequent and severe, the case for acting before crises strike is growing stronger. This article explores how Mercy Corps, H&M Foundation and Adyen are testing an innovative approach that links climate early-warning systems to remittances, helping vulnerable families access resources before disasters hit and building more resilient, anticipatory humanitarian systems.
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Why Women Farmers Hold the Key to Fixing Our Broken Food Systems

Women farmers are central to fixing broken food systems, yet they remain excluded from the technologies, financing and markets needed to scale solutions. New research from CARE shows that reducing food loss and waste requires gender-responsive design, investment and partnerships. Empowering women farmers can strengthen food security, resilience and climate outcomes globally.
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Opportunities for Change: Catalysing a Just Energy Transition Within the Current Geopolitical Context

The Fossil Fuel Phaseout Conference in Santa Marta highlights the urgent need for a just, equitable energy transition amid geopolitical tensions. A collaborative, inclusive approach to the transition rooted in social justice, local empowerment, and coordinated governance can reshape power dynamics, avert climate disasters, and ensure prosperity for all. Bold action is critical now.
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Our Power, Our Planet. Designed with people, Built for Place.

As climate and nature commitments grow, many fail to deliver due to poor integration with social and economic realities. This article introduces “Landscape by Design,” a people-centred, place-based approach that aligns climate, nature and livelihoods. By co-creating strategies with local stakeholders, businesses can drive more resilient, inclusive and measurable sustainability outcomes.
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What Real Sustainability Integration Looks Like in Business, with Fernanda Facchini, Natura

Meet Social Impact Pioneer, Fernanda Facchini. She is part of the team at Natura, the Brazilian multinational cosmetics company, who are pioneering sustainable and ethical beauty products while driving regenerative practices in the Amazon rainforest. This conversation deep dives into what it takes for a commercial business to deliver social and environmental impact from its heart.
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Financing Solar Energy in the Global South with Lassor and Ruchir

How do we finance renewable energy in the places where it can have the greatest impact? Meet two visionary leaders and Social Impact Pioneers driving solutions: Lassor Feasley, co-founder and CEO of Renewables.org, and Ruchir Punjabi, co-founder and CEO of Distributed Energy
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Water risk, resilience and shared stewardship

Why Water Risk Is a Boardroom Issue – And How an Updated Global Standard Can Help

Water risks are disrupting supply chains and communities worldwide, while regulators demand more credible water reporting. The Alliance for Water Stewardship’s (AWS) updated global standard offers companies a practical, independently assured framework to manage water risk, strengthen climate and nature strategies, and deliver better outcomes for workers and communities in high risk catchments.
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The Missing Link in Water Stewardship: Why Gender Equity is Not an Add-On

As water scarcity intensifies, businesses must rethink not only how much water they use but who is most affected by its depletion. This article explores why gender equality, disability and social inclusion (GEDSI) are essential to effective corporate water stewardship, helping companies reduce operational risks, strengthen community trust and build more resilient, equitable water management strategies.
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Making Environmental Action Second Nature

Making Environmental Action Second Nature

Climate action often fails not from apathy, but from poor design. This article argues that the most powerful environmental impact comes from embedding sustainability into everyday systems—especially finance. By making climate-positive choices automatic rather than effort-based, businesses can drive durable behaviour change and shift outcomes at scale.
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The Business of Coral Reefs with Sam Teicher

Social Impact Pioneer, Sam Teicher talks the business of coral reefs, running impact businesses, investors and innovation.
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Together for 2026

At the start of every year, the Business Fights Poverty community comes together to explore how we can collectively navigate the opportunities and challenges
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Reimagining old IT equipment before it becomes waste: How Business Can Turn Obsolete IT & Laptops into Opportunity

Reimagining Old IT Equipment Before It Becomes Waste: How Business Can Turn Obsolete IT & Laptops into Opportunity

As support for Windows 10 ends, millions of corporate laptops risk becoming e‑waste. London social enterprise SocialBox.Biz shows how businesses can repurpose redundant IT devices with open-source software, cutting emissions while tackling digital exclusion. Partnering with charities, companies can turn “old kit” into a lifeline for people facing homelessness, poverty and isolation, and strengthen ESG performance.
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Adapting to the Changing Aid Landscape

Corporate foundations stand at a pivotal moment in global development. As abrupt cuts to government aid flows create life-threatening gaps, this new report explores how corporate foundations can help shape a more financially sustainable approach to tackling poverty and inequality worldwide. Drawing on the latest data, global financing trends and insights from the development community, it highlights the scale of the challenge, rising needs, falling ODA, shrinking FDI and escalating debt, and the profound human impacts these shifts are already causing. With Standard Chartered Foundation and the Business Fights Poverty Institute.
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How Can We Put People at the Heart of Climate Action

How Can We Put People at the Heart of Climate Action: Reflections from Belém and Beyond This Insights Paper explores how climate action becomes
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Environmental Justice and Multidimensional Poverty: Intersectoral Climate Action

This article explores how climate change deepens multidimensional poverty and why environmental justice must be central to policy and business. It calls for joint, intersectoral solutions to tackle overlapping vulnerabilities and highlights the role of the private sector in driving social and environmental resilience.
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From Promises to Implementation

In this COP30 follow-up conversation, Jamie Coates, CEO of Wise Responder, guest professor at Fundação Dom Cabral (FDC), and the Business Fights Poverty representative
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Climate Resilience for Micro-Retailers: Why this is Your Next Strategic Priority

Micro-retailers are vital to local economies and brand ecosystems, but many face repeated disruption from climate shocks. A new report from Business Fights Poverty and Mastercard Strive explores how digital financial tools can fortify, navigate and recover from climate risks, creating stability for low-income entrepreneurs and strategic value for financial institutions and supply chains.
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How Business Can Drive Climate Action

Fabio Marques, from Fundação Dom Cabral, outlines three essential pathways for businesses to strengthen their role in climate mitigation and adaptation during COP30. Part
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Youth Voices at COP30

On the final day of COP30 in Belém, Flavia & Raquel from Fundação Dom Cabral reflect on why young people must not only talk
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Heat Resilience: An Opportunity for Cross-Sector Action in the United States

Extreme heat is the deadliest US climate threat, costing thousands of lives and hundreds of billions of dollars annually. A new white paper, Heat Resilience: An Opportunity for Cross-Sector Action in the United States, outlines a shared agenda, sector guidance, and policy and finance levers to drive coordinated, community-centered resilience across business, government and healthcare.
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