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Net Impact London Professional (NILP) leads Net Impact’s mission in London. We pride ourselves in providing informative and insightful events, networking opportunities, and facilitating strategic partnerships.

Impact Investment: Creating New Business and Financing Models for Social Impact

Oct 12, 2010 2 Comments

Panelists: Ben Powell, Founder of Agora Venture Fund and Mark Cheng, Director of Social Finance at Ashoka

Ben is using Agora to demonstrate to donors, future business leaders, and investors that investing in impact entrepreneurs in the developing world is an effective means to fight poverty and unemployment. Like Muhammad Yunus used Grameen Bank to demonstrate the feasibility of banking to the poor, Ben is using Agora to show that entrepreneurs in the developing world are a profitable target for socially impactful investment.

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BP – Blame Pensions?

Jun 01, 2010 No Comments

Prompted by a comment of James Cameron, that “every one in five pounds paid out as a dividend in 2009 came from BP” we checked the figures. It is indeed true. UK companies paid out £56.9bn to investors in 2009. BP and Shell paid a quarter of all UK dividends according to the Guardian newspaper. [...]

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May 24th: Post-Election Who’s Who in the Sustainable UK Economy

May 24, 2010 No Comments

Fiona Harvey – Financial Times; James Cameron – Climate Change Capital; and Colin Church – DECC will be discussing who in government and in business has the resources, the vision and the mandate to deliver the major changes which are needed to help the UK’s transformation to a sustainable economy.

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Renault Continues to Overstate Green Performance

May 07, 2010 No Comments

Earlier this week Renault were exposed by the Advertising Standards Authority for proudly advertising in the UK press a 90% reduction in carbon impact of the Renault Fluence, an electric powered vehicle due to launch in 2012. The company based the calculation on an assumption that the car is drawing its energy from the French [...]

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Green Business Leaders – Roadmap to 2015: Event Insights

Apr 28, 2010 No Comments

We have posted some video clips from the Green Leaders event. Scott McGregor of Camco discusses progress to systematise sustainability/emissions management in business in the UK and the US. You can view Jeremy’s comments on Peak Oil and the process of “re-engineering capitalism” which is needed to avoid severe global macroeconomic impacts.

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April 22nd: Green Business Leaders: Roadmap to 2015

Apr 22, 2010 No Comments

Jeremy Leggett – SolarCentury; and Scott McGregor – Camco will be sharing their personal views on how the politics of energy and climate change will create business opportunities over the coming 5 years, how companies – private and public – can be entrepreneurial in the sustainability space, and where in the world to expect low-carbon business leadership in 2010-2011.

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Called to Account

Apr 06, 2010 No Comments

Adair Turner, the chair of the UK’s Financial Services Authority, memorably expressed the belief that “market economies will not of themselves combine [enterprise] with environmental sustainability or with a reasonably just and good society.” Dramatically he declared that “capitalism needs to be saved from itself.”

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UK Government boycotts UN Principles for Responsible Investment

Apr 06, 2010 No Comments

Net Impact London Professional submitted a Freedom of Information request to UKFI. The response implies that the company did not consider the UN Principles of Responsible Investment (UNPRI) part of best institutional shareholding practice.

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Vote Now! The CRAPP Campaign

Apr 06, 2010 7 Comments

Do you think the “hand holding a growing seedling” is the worst visual cliché in sustainable business PR? If you want to join my Corporate Rejection of Anatomical Plant Pots campaign make a supportive comment on the site.

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31st March: ‘Social Drinks’ get-together

Mar 20, 2010 No Comments

‘Social Drinks’ is an informal get-together organised by Matt Scott and Sharath Jeevan for people involved / interested in ’social innovation’, from CSR, Cleantech and Fairtrade through to Social Entrepreneurship and Philanthropy.  Look for the cordoned-off area. Smollensky’s on the Strand http://www.smollenskys.com/strand/

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Lead positive change

Mar 19, 2010 No Comments

Net Impact members believe in the power of business to create a socially and environmentally sustainable world…

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Build your career

Mar 17, 2010 No Comments

Net Impact can help you build a meaningful career by providing member connections, education and leadership…

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