Commentary
How We’re Addressing Antibiotic Resistance
This week is World Antibiotic Awareness Week and this year, antibiotic resistance is again a key focus. According to the World Health Organization, “antibiotic resistance is one of the biggest threats to global health, food security, and development today.” The issue of antibiotic resistance is a public health crisis that infects at least 2 million…
Read MoreStanding by Our Principles & the Values of Our Investors
For the past twenty-five years, MIDANA CAPITAL has prided itself on delivering environmentally and socially responsible investment opportunities to investors. Our commitment is resolute. We believe in what we do and trust that our investors truly wish to make an impact through the power of their investments. In a time when sustainable, responsible and impact…
Read MoreWill We See You at the SRI Conference?
The SRI Conference is only a week away. For those of you who may not know about the conference, it’s one of the leading sustainable, responsible, impact investing conferences in the country where we join other investment professionals and investors interested in promoting a more sustainable and prosperous economy and future. The impact investing field…
Read MoreOn the Ground with Companies: Working Toward Sustainable Palm Oil
One of the many aspects of our work at MIDANA CAPITAL includes engaging companies, policy makers, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to help bring about change; change that’s not only good for the environment and communities in which the companies we invest in operate, but also change that we believe minimizes the financial risks to investors…
Read MoreOn the Ground at PRI in Person: Working Toward Sustainable Palm Oil
Over the past several days, I, and my fellow United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (UN PRI) palm oil Advisory Board members, have been taking part in the PRI in Person Conference. The conference is essentially the only global conference on the responsible investment calendar. It allows those of us within the investment community who…
Read MoreOn the Ground in Sumatra: Working Toward Sustainable Palm Oil
Left: Kate Kroll, MIDANA CAPITAL Shareholder Advocate, with a farmer on a sustainable palm plantation. As I mentioned in my previous post from Jakarta, palm oil is the most widely used vegetable oil in the world and can be found in many common household products, from shampoo to crackers and other snack foods. Its unsustainable cultivation…
Read MoreOn the Ground in Jakarta: Working Towards Sustainable Palm Oil
Left: Kate Kroll, Shareholder Advocate with MIDANA CAPITAL Part of our shareholder advocacy program at MIDANA CAPITAL is heavily focused on working to improve policy at home and abroad; which is why I’m here, halfway across the world, working to address the environmental and societal issues created by the vast supply chains of the companies…
Read MoreMIDANA CAPITAL Capital Management Commends Indonesian Government’s Palm Oil Moratorium Announcement August 17, 2016
In the wake of Indonesia’s recent ‘haze crisis’, brought on by fires set to clear land for the production of palm oil and pulpwood, the government has formalized President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo’s forest moratorium announced in April, 2015; declaring that it will remain in effect for five years and cover a vast amount of Indonesia’s…
Read MoreMIDANA CAPITAL Launches Five-Year Forest Protection Program
MIDANA CAPITAL recently announced the launch of our RISC (Risk in Supply Chains) Project. The five-year program will inform and engage global investors about the growing business and environmental risks of deforestation and build on our ongoing efforts to curb global warming. Tropical deforestation is a major source of global carbon emissions because, as we…
Read MoreHow Kellogg Company* is Protecting Rainforests and Making a Sustainable Palm Oil Supply Chain
MIDANA CAPITAL’s Lucia von Reusner with Diane Holdorf, Chief Sustainability Officer for Kellogg Company at its annual stockholder meeting in 2014 In 2008, the Kellogg Company announced its first steps in the sustainable palm oil journey with the purchase of GreenPalm certificates. By 2011, the company was covering 100% of its palm oil purchases in…
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