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AVPN Virtual Deal Share Live: Showcase of Women-Led Enterprises in the Philippines

While the Philippines comes second place among East Asia and the Pacific region in gender parity as reported by the World Economic Forum’s 2020 Global Gender Gap Index report, much more needs to be done. In partnership with Investing In Women, this session focuses on uplifting women-founded/led enterprises with the aim of further narrowing the gender gap in economic participation and opportunity through Gender Lens Investing.

AVPN Webinar: Impact Investing in a Post-COVID World: ESG Trends, Measurement & Analysis Across Asia-Pacific

While the world faces the COVID-19 pandemic, it has become clear that there is an upcoming shift to rethink sustainability practices, business models, and investment priorities. With ESG standards being one of the most powerful and globally recognized tools to advance progress in sustainability, it is critical to ensure that we are well-positioned to integrate ESG in our current context.

AVPN Webinar: Demystifying Gender Lens Investing

Gender lens investing (GLI) has gained traction globally with an increasing number of mainstream investors incorporating gender-based analysis into their investment decisions. While investing along a gender lens may be more pronounced in the west, the GLI landscape in Asia has shown rapid growth over the past few years. By investing in gender equity, Asia Pacific could see $4.5 trillion added to the annual GDP by 2025.

AVPN Webinar: Gender Lens Investing in Practice: Investment Showcase

AVPN with support from Investing in Women and in partnership with AmCham and AusCham in Vietnam look forward to the second installment of Gender-Lens Investing in Practice with a focus on showcasing women entrepreneurs.

AVPN Webinar: Opportunities in Gender Lens Investing to Drive Economic Growth in Indonesia

5 insights on the potential of e-commerce in growing women entrepreneurship

Over the years, there has been increasing efforts to achieve women’s economic empowerment in Indonesia. There is a unanimous appetite among impact and mainstream investors to understand gender lens investing, a relatively new and emerging theme in Indonesia.

AVPN x Circulate Capital: Catalyzing Capital to Advance the Circular Economy and Fight Climate Change in Asia

The circular economy presents a specific and unique opportunity for corporate, private and development finance investors to capture the value of plastic waste as well as to meaningfully mitigate the climate impacts of plastic pollution, especially in Asia. According to Circulate Capital, we could eliminate almost 150 million tonnes of GHG from the environment if […]

Catalyzing the Circular Economy: Investment Potential in Asia

4 min read The most important climate change conference – COP26 – is just around the corner, reminding countries, leaders, media and the public, of the pressing need to fight climate change for a better collective future. Without intervention, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the plastic lifecycle will make up 20 percent of the global […]