Kenya and Copenhagen connecting on sustainable Fintech
The Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals both come with price tags. In the European Union alone, there is an annual investment gap amounting to almost EUR 180 billion to achieve its climate and energy targets. This requires a significant redirection of capital toward green finance. In its current design the financial system is not fit to deliver. Only one percent of the trillion-dollar bond market is green bonds and annually 7 trillion dollars are locked up in savings not in sustainable assets.
Only one percent of the trillion-dollar bond market is green bonds and annually 7 trillion dollars
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Kan du teste en idé på 8 timer?
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Vigga Svensson likes to give away control
While Vigga Svensson was running her first two companies, Katvig and Vigga, she would bike home from board meetings, not feeling exactly great. “I was frustrated with the founder role I had stepped into,” she says. “I prefer to be friends with the people around me, rather than being confrontational. I do not perform well, when my work is structured around a spreadsheet. And there I was doing these things in front of my investors and employees, being someone else’s prepackaged idea of a founder.” It was not until after her second startup, the clothes sharing platform Vigga, and almost…
Human Studio is the startup that brings people and buildings together
The old trees are slowly starting to appear in the aging stock courtyard in central Copenhagen. Inside one of the doors to the weathered half-timbered house, we find the daily residence for a number of startups that focus on construction. Construction as an industry has not experienced an influx of digitalization, but a number of companies – located below the looming shadow of the big BLOX building – are trying to change this. Human Studio is digital at its core but recognizes the importance of human nature, as it is such an important part of how we live and build….