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Welcome to The Road to Sustainability Weekly Reviews—Sustainability approaches and strategies, week 39 of 2022.

Dear friends and colleagues,

In this special series, I explore three meaningful axes in the investment decision-making process toward sustainability.

We must reinforce the financial spectrum of possibilities to accelerate the transition to a sustainable economy. It requires first reaching environmental stability for sustainable growth, then designing sustainability and inclusion implementation to reshape industries and have companies using forward-looking assessments.

My purpose here is to address some of these problems by providing tips and lessons learned from my team's experience and observations made while facilitating or mentoring other process improvement groups.

I imagine it as an infinite loop. We will unpack the three axes following ten common process improvement mistakes and how to avoid them. Investment and decision-making, the loop series:

• Fix the process, not the problem—part 1, this week’s edition.
• New circumstances, new adversity?—part 2, in next week’s edition.
• Yesterday’s failure is today’s innovation rise—part 3, in a couple of weeks’ edition.

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?? Summary

1. This week's big question—Would you turn your entire financial system into the use of blended finance?

2. This edition is brought to you by Sibos conference 2022: Discover Perfect Pitch 2022

3. Facts and principles—Investment and decision-making, the loop series: fix the process, not the problem, part 1

4. A canvas to help you articulate eight issues for problem-solving

5. Climate change highlights and critical data by the numbers

6. New podcast: "Sustainability and systemic issues are interlinked with the fragility of our society," Jennifer Motles

7. Introducing ?? Weekly digest; ?? Features and free guides; ?? Leadership and sustainability commitments podcast

8.?Resources from the community—posts, comments, and notes from our subscribers

9. Sponsor this review (currently booked out until mid-October)

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11. Information

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1. This week's big question:

?? Would you turn your entire financial system into the use of blended finance?

? Please share your thoughts, posts, thoughts, and feedback.

? Vote here

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2. This edition is brought to you by Sibos conference 2022: Discover Perfect Pitch 2022

Sibos 2022 will see the third edition of the Discover Perfect Pitch competition, a challenge with a twist, giving fintechs from around the globe the opportunity to showcase their products and services to the Sibos community.

We are calling fintech companies with a specific?focus on?Society & Sustainability challenges, which are:

• Have a net-zero target, driving any UN SDG as the primary purpose of sustainable innovation.
• Product or service for financial inclusion.
• Responsible investment or Fintech for Good.

? More info here:?calling all innovators

? Registration: enter the best of the best fintech competition,?participate here

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3. Investment and decision-making, the loop series: fix the process, not the problem, part 1

A recent mission led my team and me to deal with systems widely considered inefficient and difficult to work with. The processes involved in the organization’s transformation toward the implementation of sustainability practices were frustrating, cumbersome, costly, and antithetical to their stated objectives.?

Those processes had been implemented to address particular issues, which exacerbated the problems.?

Before this department invested in yet another system, an executive of the unit reached out to me to better understand their processes and how they could be improved to make the new system implementation successful.

[Continue reading on sustainability insights]

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4. A canvas to help you articulate eight issues for problem-solving: the Sustainability Canvas

We’ve created a canvas to help you start?your?Road to Sustainability.

Canvases have always helped visualize and map out new business ideas and concepts.

By articulating factors like purpose, mission, value, and community, founders and practitioners can concisely explain why a new product or service should exist and get funded.

? The Sustainability Canvas will help you build new tools and models to help you understand where innovation is needed and push your workforce to boost innovation wherever possible.?Get it here.

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5. This week, by the numbers: climate change highlights and critical data.

?? World status, big data, and?CO2

• Hurricane Ian nears Cuba on path to strike Florida as Cat 4—[More on AP].
• Study findings can help inform practices and policies in ecosystem management.—[More on Healthyline].
• CO2 levels as of September 25: 415.70 ppm, a year ago: 415.57 ppm CO2 in the air.—[More on Global Monitoring].

??More critical resources:?Real-time temperature???Advanced Global Atmospheric Gases Experiment

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6. New podcast: "Sustainability and systemic issues are interlinked with the fragility of our society," Jennifer Motles

"Sustainability and systemic issues are interlinked with the fragility of our society" Jennifer Motles, Chief Sustainability Officer at Philip Morris International.

A lot of hard work and passion goes into building a sustainable organization. And Jennifer Motles knows something about it.

Here's to a great and inspiring conversation with one of my favorite chiefs of sustainability in the corporate world.

In this Ask the Experts episode, you will learn about the following:

→ How has the pandemic benefited cooperation and raising awareness, despite the overwhelming amount of conversations on social networks? What can we do more?

→ What do we need to overcome disparities? The gap between corporations and the public, particularly with the young generations.

→ The approach to sustainability has become more professional during the pandemic, impacting and understanding externalities, yes, but what resources are missing?

→ Are companies prepared to address issues as they are on different journeys and the planet is changing?

→ How can we define the impact created by corporations on the environment? What type of framework and playbook can companies rely on? What is the value proposition?

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8. Resources from the community—posts, comments, and notes from our subscribers

"Net zero" is everywhere. Generally, that’s a good thing, because it is a neat shorthand, and reminder, of the action we urgently need to take to address climate change.—10 things every investor should know about Net Zero?by Harald Walkate.

+?Read the post on LinkedIn.

+ Follow?Harald Walkate.

Fiduciary duty

Be the change you wish to see in the world—" a thought-provoking post by?Dr Raj Thamotheram?got me thinking” by Gillian Marcelle.

+?Read the post on LinkedIn.

+ Follow?Gillian Marcelle.

What am I reading

Unprecedented events creating ‘extremely severe’ risk of global recession – economist Adam Tooze.

+?More on the Guardian.

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11. Information

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