Investments with Social and Environmental Impacts
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Episode Overview
In this episode, we speak with Neera Van der Geest, CEO of the FairClimateFund, a social venture that invests and trades in CO₂ reduction certificates that benefit people — especially women and children most vulnerable to climate change — to provide them with more sustainable livelihoods.
Neera shares her perspective on the importance of investing for social and environmental impacts and calls for greater transparency in how impact is measured and how benefits are shared with the communities that make these impacts possible.
About the Guest
Neera Van der Geest graduated in Environmental Development Economics from the Agricultural University in Wageningen. She has worked across the private sector (engineering), public sector (Dutch government), and international NGOs, always at the intersection of economic development, poverty alleviation, and environmental protection.
Since 2008, she has served as CEO of ICCO’s FairClimateFund, which has invested nearly €7 million in projects across India, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, and Peru. The carbon credits from these projects are traded to corporates implementing CSR policies on climate.
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