At the end of June, the International Sustainability Standards Board unveiled new sustainability and climate disclosure standards. Why fighting corruption is good for conservation? There is a need to bring more transparency to resource extraction and trade. Public access to logging, licensing, or exploration contracts raises the accountability of those who sign such deals, limiting corruption as well as natural resource overuse.
Economists and economic justice campaigners are criticizing the International Monetary Fund IMF for putting tax conditionalities on debt deals - for example, telling Sri Lanka to hold off from a new digital services tax.
Louisa Loveluck and Mustafa Salim warn about how a building boom fueled by corruption is changing the face of Baghdad. But the real estate market is also a magnet for dirty money. W hat can politicians do to build trust? World Bank's newly-appointed President, Ajay Banga, must guide the organization to complete transparency.
Increased trust would encourage shareholders to consider capital increases. Trust-based engagement with the private sector and other development institutions would generate scale and momentum - among others toward just transition. Former Atlas Corps Fellow Lorna Kanyuga wrote about the common challenges these leaders faced and ways in which they hoped coaching could help them to overcome them.
The report serves as a crucial tool for philanthropy actors, particularly foundations and those that support them, looking to create transformative change within their organization and beyond. Stay tuned for the interactive version of this Guide coming very soon. CivSource experiments with a wide range of ways of grantmaking. How to adopt systems thinking? Some of the tips include: convening the stakeholders, particularly those most affected; mapping and assessing leverage points; applying humility, agility, and diversity.
