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July 13, 2021
Corporate Climate Efforts Lack Impact, Say Former Sustainability Executives
They’re speaking out, pushing for more aggressive government policies to address societal problems.
July 06, 2021
EPISODE 13: Tariq Fancy, Founder & CEO at Rumie on scaling your business globally
You have to really believe in your business idea at a fanatic level, because no matter what happens it's going to be difficult down the line”.
March 27, 2021
The impact of green investors
Sustainable investing is in the firing line, as two recent events have shown. Last week, the board of Danone, a French food-maker...
March 27, 2021
Financial world greenwashing the public with deadly distraction in sustainable investing practices
The financial services industry is duping the American public with its pro-environment, sustainable investing practices...
March 30, 2021
Green investing 'is definitely not going to work’, says ex-BlackRock executive
Tariq Fancy once oversaw the start of the biggest effort to turn Wall Street ‘green’ – but now believes the climate crisis...
March 23, 2021
Former BlackRock Executive Blows the Whistle on Greenwashing
Fear of missing out on fund flows gives asset managers a strong incentive to pretend all their offerings are green...
March 22, 2021
Ex-Blackrock exec starts row over value of sustainable investing
A high-profile newspaper op-ed by a former BlackRock Inc executive questioned the value of sustainable investing...
April 2, 2021
Green Investing Is “Definitely Not” Going to Save Our Behinds
From his desk in midtown Manhattan, Tariq Fancy once oversaw the beginning of arguably the biggest, most ambitious...
March 20, 2021
Vice Is a Hard Habit to Kick as ESG Seeps Into Credit Markets
Virtue in corporate environmental, social and governance debt is becoming lucrative for investors and companies...
March 25, 2021
BlackRock hired me to make sustainable investing mainstream. Now I realize it’s a deadly distraction from the climate-change threat
As COVID-19 landed in Canada last year, we quickly learned the importance of having an effective government...
March 18, 2021
‘It’s moving deckchairs on the Titanic’: Former BlackRock sustainability executive says Wall Street’s green investing is ‘PR spin’
Tariq Fancy, who served as chief investment officer of sustainable investing at the world’s largest asset manager, tells Louise Boyle...
March 18, 2021
AI can shine digital sunlight on to company greenwashing
If you say the word “green activist” to a corporate executive, Greta Thunberg may spring to mind — and provoke fear...
December 15, 2021
Gordon Brown & Julia Gillard help drive far-reaching global education changes
COVID-19 the catalyst after 1.6 billion young people’s studies disrupted...
March 7, 2020
We Heart: These Seven Feminist Efforts to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030
Over half of the 1.8 billion school-aged children in the world lack access to a quality education and relevant, up-to-date learning...
December 14, 2017
Pitch: How to Move Learning from Books to Bytes
The Rumie Initiative is working to help improve global skills training for underserved communities by leveraging these two trends...
December 11, 2014
The Rumie Initiative: Using Tablets As Learning Tools In Ebola-Stricken Communities
Misfortunes never come singly. Although less than 1% of the population has been diagnosed with Ebola, to tackle the outbreak...
Blogs
October 19, 2020
Social Media to Social impact
Netflix released The Social Dilemma recently, a new documentary that uncovers some of the dangerous effects that social media has...
July 21, 2020
COVID-19 and Virtual Volunteering
At Rumie, we knew that virtual volunteering could supercharge our digital learning solutions for underserved communities...