Morgan Stanley Announces Inaugural Winners of the Sustainable Solutions Award and Collaborative
09 Junho 2021 - 11:00AM
Business Wire
Five breakthrough innovations from across Africa, Southeast
Asia, Europe and North America will each receive a $250,000 award
and participate in a strategic new collaborative to focus on
systemic solutions to complex sustainability challenges.
The Morgan Stanley Institute for Sustainable Investing (the
Institute) today announced the inaugural cohort of its Sustainable
Solutions Collaborative (the Collaborative), an initiative to
identify breakthrough innovations that address systemic change to
support sustainability. Spanning Africa, and Southeast Asia, Europe
and North America, the five winners will participate in a bespoke
yearlong strategic collaboration with the Institute where they will
tap into the full range of Morgan Stanley’s expertise, networks and
resources to help them achieve scale. Each winner will also receive
an award of $250,000 to increase the impact and reach of their
initiative.
Each member of the Sustainable Solutions Collaborative was
selected for developing a breakthrough concept aimed at solving
critical global challenges. The five inaugural participants of the
2021 Sustainable Solutions Collaborative come from a diverse group
of organizations and backgrounds:
- Mpharma, a Ghana-based health tech startup is
revolutionizing the drug supply chain in Africa taking the tools
that make ecommerce convenient and profitable to make healthcare
accessible and affordable.
- MySOC, a project of Skidmore College and Michigan
State University, is harnessing unprecedented amounts of diverse
data types to answer foundational questions about soil carbon to
create a new market in partnership with farmers truly committed to
sustainability.
- Siklus is tackling the nexus of poverty and plastic
waste in Indonesia, remapping the relationship between consumers
and producers to prove that affordable and convenient doesn’t need
to mean throw away.
- SunCulture, based in Kenya, is bringing together
innovations in inclusive finance, renewable energy and sustainable
agriculture to help small holder farmers in Africa be more
profitable and more sustainable.
- Trees As Infrastructure, Trees As Infrastructure, an
open source platform by Dark Matter Labs, based in the UK and
operating across Europe, is establishing nature as a critical part
of urban infrastructure, alongside bridges, roads and rail,
enabling it to be investable, profitable and sustainable.
“Each one of these initiatives, which range from commercial to
nonprofit, has developed remarkable innovations. Through the help
of the Collaborative, they have the potential to create the
systemic changes needed to create a more sustainable future,” said
Audrey Choi, Chief Sustainability Officer and CEO of the Morgan
Stanley Institute for Sustainable Investing. “We admire their
creative thinking and dedication, and look forward to working with
them to help bring their solutions to scale.”
For this award, the Institute engaged a diverse network of
sustainability thought leaders and practitioners from across a wide
variety of industries and sectors to make anonymous nominations.
Morgan Stanley received over 150 highly qualified nominations and
carried out a rigorous selection process to identify the
innovations with the greatest potential for systemic impact that
would also benefit from deep and sustained engagement with Morgan
Stanley. This initial cohort represents the first in an on-going
effort to support systemic, sustainable thinking, with additional
potential efforts focused on specific topics or geographies as
appropriate. Morgan Stanley is beginning the process of identifying
the next cohort of members who will join the collaborative as the
effort builds a growing, diverse set of systemic innovators seeking
sustainable solutions at scale.
To learn more about the Sustainable Solutions Collaborative and
the winning teams, please visit here.
About Morgan Stanley
Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) is a leading global financial services
firm providing investment banking, securities, wealth management
and investment management services. With offices in more than 41
countries, the Firm's employees serve clients worldwide including
corporations, governments, institutions and individuals. For more
information about Morgan Stanley, please visit
www.morganstanley.com.
About the Institute for Sustainable Investing
The Morgan Stanley Institute for Sustainable Investing (The
Institute) builds scalable finance solutions that seek to deliver
competitive financial returns while driving positive environmental
and social impact. Founded in 2013, The Institute creates
innovative financial products, thoughtful insights and capacity
building programs that help maximize capital to create a more
sustainable future. For more information about the Morgan Stanley
Institute for Sustainable Investing, visit
www.morganstanley.com/sustainableinvesting.
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decisions are based solely on investment considerations. Because
ESG criteria exclude some investments, investors may not be able to
take advantage of the same opportunities or market trends as
investors that do not use such criteria. Diversification does not
guarantee a profit or protect against loss in a declining financial
market.
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