Author: Goal 17 Partners
Future-Proofing Business: A New View of Risk, Reward, and Impact
How do investors and insurance companies prepare for climate change, aging societies and the other pressing challenges of the next decade? Representatives of Guggenheim Partners, Willis Towers Watson and the Bank of England came together at Goal 17 Partners on...
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Building Climate Resilience In Climate Risk Hotspots
The perfect combination of representatives from the UN, private sector, and government came together on a panel in the Goal 17 Partners space to discuss the intersection of climate, hunger, and conflict and the importance of partnerships in delivering impact...
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The Search For Best Practices
How can investors, civil society and project developers collaborate to reduce risk and maximize positive impact as it relates to social factors in infrastructure? To explore this multifaceted issue, Goal 17 Partners convened a panel representing investment and civil society...
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Boosting Brain Health Through Innovation
What if your car was broken, but the mechanic never looked at the engine? According to Professor Olivier Oullier, President of EMOTIV, “the engine is the brain” and the mechanic is the scientist/physician/researcher. Despite the fact that the brain is...
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Reconsidering Measures Of Value
Gross Domestic Product (GDP), Earnings-per-Share (EPS), and Yield are measures of value that are foundational to the management of our economy, corporations, and markets. For decades these widely-recognized quantitative measures have been used to plan development, allocate capital, and determine...
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Making Today Better to Affect Tomorrow
You don’t have to be a world leader to make an impact. Melati Wijsen and Cruz Erdmann are two young environmental activists who are taking big steps towards becoming more sustainable and leaving a positive impact on the environment. Melati,...
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The Value Of Leaving Your Ego And Logo At The Door
What is an omniwin partnership? To the 5th Element Group and its partners, it is about identifying long term mutual benefits between partners— the ultimate ‘win-win’ arrangement. Omniwin modeling includes traditional “PPP” (Public-Private Partnership) approaches as well as unique alternative strategies for...
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Testing Sustainability Standards
How can investors assess sustainability using accounting standards when considering infrastructure investments? A panel of experts explored the opportunities and challenges of international standards to measure the sustainability of the rapidly growing investment class at the Goal 17 Partners space...
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A New Deal for Nature
Business for Nature launched its high-level policy recommendations to governments on Tuesday, urging policy makers to take ambitious decisions to drive global systemic and transformative change. Calling 2020 a “Super Year,” the partnership of business leaders and conservation advocates said...
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Live Stream: Business Leadership In The 2020 Super Year For Nature
2020 will be a Super Year for nature and people with world leaders having a unique opportunity to forge international agreements to reverse nature loss. Business for Nature is a global coalition bringing together influential organizations and forward-thinking businesses to...
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“When We Act Together Change Happens”
Goal 17 Partners welcomed this year’s World Economic Forum Annual Meeting attendees declaring that “the view from the top should be more than the bottom line” as it kicked off a week of thought leadership and business action to support...
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Financing Resilient and Sustainable Infrastructure
At the Natural Capital Symposium, Goal 17 partners World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and Guggenheim Partners explored how to finance more resilient and sustainable infrastructure projects across the world. The challenge – and the opportunity – is enormous. As Ryan Bartlett...
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