Achim steiner, UN Under-Secretary General and UNEP Executive Director, about Little Green Capital : "The urgency of the challenges facing all economies, from climate change to ecological losses, allied to the need to deliver growth, overcome poverty and generate employment, are more apparent with every passing year and every new decade. Investing in sustainable businesses means investing in a safer, more secure future for humankind."
Objectives
1. To identify people with groundbreaking, sustainable and profitable projects. To assist them in the decision-making involved in creating a new business. To provide them with support, both financial and personal, as their business develops in the short and medium term.
2. To incubate (or even initiate) new ideas and business models and give backing to the teams who are likely to bring them into being.
Little Green Capital in Africa
Little Green Capital supports ambitious projects in Africa, in the areas of Energy, reforestation and action against poverty.
Towards Global Accounting
It is Little Green Capital’s intention to take part in the evolution of our accounting systems, inspired by the World Bank’s ‘green accounting’ model. The businesses it supports or in which it invests represent potential testing grounds for the modified systems.
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