Tag: Kavita Gupta

Multimillion-Dollar Sustainable Business

On this segment of TheIMPACT, our host Kavita Gupta interviews Sandeep Patel - Founder & CEO of NEPRA, a multi-million dollar leading waste management company in India. Today NEPRA has multiple operations, offering work to more than 450 people and having an operational capacity of 600 tons. During this interview, Sandeep discusses how he started with waste management handling, NEPRA growth trajectory, and the impact made on different people throughout India.TheIMPACT focuses on ESG, Impact Investing, and advancing the 17 United Nations-supported Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The show profiles people and companies committed to changing lives and creating a sustainable world.

Climate Change Impact: Lost Glacier of Iceland

In partnership with the Climate Group and FINTECH.TV, The Nest Summit is an official event of Climate Week NYC, dedicated to advancing sustainability in the US by convening the organizations, visionary researchers, and influential policymakers driving climate action and leading the way to a cleaner and safer environment.Live from Javits Center in The Nest Summit at Climate Week NYC, today we discuss the implications of climate change with Oddur Sigurðsson who is the geologist at the Icelandic Meteorological Office. Oddur founded a beautiful glacier and studied how it has been diminishing, now not even classified as a glacier and dead ice in 2014. Known to most school kids in Iceland, this particular glacier disappearing was shocking for many who grew up there. The carbon dioxide issue is the main issue that causes global warming in the atmosphere. Simple as Oddur puts it. Oddur Sigurðsson Geologist Icelandic Meteorological Office

Sustainability in Fashion Industry

In partnership with the Climate Group and FINTECH.TV, The Nest Summit is an official event of Climate Week NYC, dedicated to advancing sustainability in the US by convening the organizations, visionary researchers, and influential policymakers driving climate action and leading the way to a cleaner and safer environment.We are broadcasting on FINTECH.TV from the Javits Center in New York City during The Nest Summit at Climate Week NYC, we bring you a discussion with four incredible women and how they are all bringing us closer to a sustainable future in the fashion industry. Join this all-star team with our host, Kavita Gupta, with guests from Iceland, the United States, and the segment covering sustainability as the inefficiencies create a more significant carbon footprint due to the overproduction of fashion products. These exponential leaders are the voice of a sustainable tomorrow in fashion. Áslaug Magnúsdóttir Founder & CEO Katla Amanda Hearst Co-Founder & Chief Brand Officer Maison De Mode Marleen Vogelaar CEO Ziel Inc. Steph Stephenson Co-Chair Cordes Foundation

Generation Climate Activism

In partnership with the Climate Group and FINTECH.TV, The Nest Summit is an official event of Climate Week NYC, dedicated to advancing sustainability in the US by convening the organizations, visionary researchers, and influential policymakers driving climate action and leading the way to a cleaner and safer environment.Join The Nest Summit at Climate Week NYC, from the Javits Center with Laura Turner Seydel, Founder of the Capitan Planet Foundation and Director of Turner Foundation - named after her late father, the infamous business mogul behind CNN, TBS, and many others throughout his incredible career. Laura carries on the Turner family legacy addressing environmental issues most concerning for our planet to create a long-term, sustainable future. Laura takes us through her upbringing, being raised by "Capitan Planet" vis-a-vis her father, Ted Turner. This really is an incredible interview as we all strive to make a difference in the world. Laura Turner Seydel Chairperson Captain Planet Foundation John Rutherford Seydel Board Member Turner Foundation & Captain Planet Foundation Vasser Seydel Campaign Director for Deep Seabed Mining Oxygen Project

Climate Change Impact in Amazon

In partnership with the Climate Group and FINTECH.TV, The Nest Summit is an official event of Climate Week NYC, dedicated to advancing sustainability in the US by convening the organizations, visionary researchers, and influential policymakers driving climate action and leading the way to a cleaner and safer environment.Join us for the The Nest Summit at Climate Week NYC, powered by FINTECH.TV from Javits Center  as we discuss the importance of protecting the Amazon. Protecting the Amazon is essential not only for South America - more so, the entire world. Fires are hirer than ever at 28% higher year-over-year. Atossa Soltani, John Quigley, Suzanne Pelletier, and Wendie Malick join us to explain what is happening with capturing CO2, breathing out and how this process works through billions of trees in the Amazon with an average tree generating unbelievable amounts of water per tree per day. The "rain machine" for the planet.

Tom Steyer on Climate Activism Using Public Equity Market

In partnership with the Climate Group and FINTECH.TV, The Nest Summit is an official event of Climate Week NYC, dedicated to advancing sustainability in the US by convening the organizations, visionary researchers, and influential policymakers driving climate action and leading the way to a cleaner and safer environment.Environmental scientists and policy experts around the country agree that the massive wildfires are just the latest indicator that climate change has thrust the U.S., and the world, into a dangerous new era. The time is now; we must make changes and create policies that will help us get into a sustainable course that will create more jobs and help our economy. Sustainability & environmental justice have to be a priority; we must develop policies and bring a comprehensive program that connects equity, environmental justice, racial justice, economic justice, and job creation. Tom Steyer NextGen America Founder & Co-Chair California's Business and Jobs Recovery Task Force Adam Lake Head of Climate Week NYC Climate Group Alan Steel President & CEO Javits Center Britton Jones Founder & CEO The Nest Summit Vince Molinari Founder & CEO FINTECH.TV Bruce Duguid Head of Stewardship Federated Hermes Mark Sherlock Head of US Equities, Lead Portfolio Manager Federated Hermes Lynn Martin President & Chief Operating Officer ICE Data Services Pat Mitchell Media Executive, Producer, Curator Connecting with Women to Create Change Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson Founder Urban Ocean Lab & Ocean Collective Dr. Katherine Wilkinson Author, Co-Founder & Co-Director All We Can Save Project Naima Penniman Artist, Activist, Co-Founder & Co-Artistic Director Climbing Poetree

Impact Investing in India

TheIMPACT focuses on ESG, Impact Investing, and advancing the 17 United Nations-supported Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The show profiles people and companies committed to changing lives and creating a sustainable world.Read Time: 59 secondsOn our first segment of FINTECH.TV's India Edition, our host, Kavita Gupta, is joined by the visionary Chairman of Aavishkaar Group, Vineet Rai, to discuss Impact Investment in India. Aavishkaar is currently managing $1 billion in impact assets and creating 250,000 jobs.Vineet's father was in the service, living in the forest at the age of 21, he came to the reality of poverty, what rich means, and steps to get there. "To be rich, you must be associated with a business." At the age of 26, he started a fund with the idea of taking capital that will influence young entrepreneurs to work through their business with poor people. At the same time, he started a company called Intellecap to get to young people fascinated by the challenge of solving a social problem and helping others become rich. "Rich means reaching your basic needs."Nepra Resource is dedicated to building an organized supply chain for dry waste recyclable materials. It helps connect waste generators and collectors to recycling industries. AgroStar is a tech platform that provides a combination of agronomy advice coupled with service and agriculture input products that enable farmers to improve their productivity and income significantly. Visit Aavishkaar Capital: https://www.aavishkaarcapital.in/ Learn more about Nepra Resource:  https://www.nepra.co.in/ Learn more about AgroStar:  https://www.corporate.agrostar.in/ Learn Impact Investing in London with Sir. Ronal Cohen, Founder of Apex Partner: https://fintech.tv/impact-investing-is-going-mainstream-in-a-post-covid-world/