Just as it’s tricky to find the best ways to reduce your carbon footprint by changing your consumption habits – it’s equally as tricky to find out where and how to start investing sustainably. That’s not made easier by the fact that there are many “green investment funds” out there Read more…
More and more investors are now realising sustainability as an important aspect that can secure future returns. Roughly one in four dollars in the U.S., for example, is now invested through an ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) lens. Yet, sustainable investing must be done with caution. Analysts increasingly warn that Read more…
Germans are often described as world champions in saving. If you look at the statistics, this stereotype doesn’t come out of nowhere. In 2019, a German private household had an average of €27,600 in savings. While this may sound reasonable at first glance, it is not necessarily so. Here are Read more…
Today, the ecoligo team is celebrating our fifth birthday. As a start-up – or rather a scale-up – this is a huge deal! Not only are we proud to have made it this far, but the five years behind us are some of the most challenging, exciting and sometimes downright Read more…
When conscious investors look for sustainable investment opportunities, they often ask the same question: how much impact will my money really have? Today, crowdinvestors at ecoligo.investments have the answer; the clean energy projects that have been financed on the platform so far will save over 100,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions Read more…
Is fairafric the world’s fairest chocolate company? Although cocoa beans are typically grown in emerging markets, they are typically exported for processing elsewhere. This is what fairafric wants to change. By keeping the entire bean-to-bar process in Ghana, the social business can generate 5x the amount of income compared to Read more…
Berlin and Frankfurt am Main, 22nd October 2018: Over 1 million Euro has been raised by crowdinvestors to finance solar projects in emerging markets on the ecoligo.investments platform. The milestone demonstrates the potential of individual investors to bridge a well-known finance gap for commercial and industrial (C&I) sector solar projects, Read more…
In light of the G20 Summit in Hamburg this week, ecoligo gives concrete recommendations to political leaders on how to bring the G20 Africa Partnership initiative into action. Three weeks ago, ecoligo co-founder Markus Schwaninger was invited to participate at the “G20 Africa Partnership Conference: Investing in a common future” Read more…
