We need to scale impact investing to really meet the targets that we've set for ourselves through the SDGs and other such efforts.

Impact Investing goes Mainstream

Q: There's a lot of discussion that this is the year where we see impact investing go mainstream, with more investment in sustainable and environmental and socially driven assets than we've seen in previous years. Why did this happen?

A: One thing that is becoming clear is people are recognizing that the way we've been doing things is not going to get us to where we need to go, to meet the Sustainable Development Goals and to achieve a net-zero climate future. And so, people are very much questioning how they invest and they're asking all the right questions: “Where is my money going? What is my money doing? What impact—positive and negative—are my assets having as they are being put to work?” Now, I think the thing that we have to be careful of is that we don't end there at greater awareness. We really need to get the money to move.

Q: What does the future of impact investing look like to you?

A: All investments are invested with an impact lens. And to get to that place, I know, is quite utopian, but I believe we have to get there. And I do believe it's possible. We know that we're in a place right now that is not sustainable as it relates to climate and people’s welfare. We need to move quickly to make a change. Can we get to where we need to go in the right amount of time is the question that keeps me up at night.

https://www.ifc.org/wps/wcm/connect/news_ext_content/ifc_external_corporate_site/news+and+events/news/insights/sdgs-impact-investing-jennifer-pryce?CID=IFC_TT_IFC_EN_EXT

 

Citation: IFC. For more information go to www.ifc.org

 

Advancing Health Ownership Digitalization, access to health information and structural demand are set to further drive the consumer health market. Do you know what’s ahead?

Advancing Health Ownership

Around the world, people are increasingly health conscious and aware of the impact of individual lifestyle choices on their health and the health of others. This growing awareness has the potential to transform the way we think about health care – becoming our own health advocates and seeking ways to personally improve and maintain health. 

This overarching trend of health ownership worldwide is expected to drive growth in the consumer health industry across a number of fronts. Additionally, self-care can help alleviate increasing resource pressure on health care systems and governments.

https://www.bayer.com/en/investors/consumer-health-megatrends

Citation: Bayer

The Time Is Now: Accelerating the Business for Impact Movement

To be a leading, thriving company, there is greater need than ever to redefine value creation and how businesses “net out” their impact. Leading organizations in the business for impact sector understand that what is now essential is giving people the right to be, act, and serve as changemakers for the common good in their everyday work.

https://businessfightspoverty.org/the-time-is-now-accelerating-the-business-for-impact-movement/?utm_source=ONTRAPORT-email-broadcast&utm_medium=ONTRAPORT-email-broadcast&utm_term=Broadcast+Message+-+Non+VIP&utm_content=Texas%2C+Climate+and+Equity+%7C+New+skills+for+a+shifting+climate+%7C+Accelerating+the+Business+for+Impact+Movement+%7C+Young+Leaders+Offer+Wisdom&utm_campaign=21042021

Our Targets to Be Met by 2030 - To help Thrive People’s Lives

To help Thrive People’s Lives

“Health for all, hunger for none” – with our strategic focus on sustainability, we are making a key contribution to ensuring our vision becomes reality. Today, the world is faced with the unprecedented challenge of ensuring that a growing and ageing world population can lead self-determined lives and partake in progress, while at the same time ensuring that natural resources are used more sustainably than in the past. 

https://www.bayer.com/en/sustainability/targets

Citation: Bayer for more information go to www.bayer.com

A dynamic, Health Promotion and Extended Healthspan driving force.

 2021 is a recovery year!

The most TRUSTED name in the Global Sector Economy (Freedom and Personal Health and Wellbeing Prosperity and Global Self-care)

It is time for Freedom and Personal Health and Wellbeing Prosperity Equity for extended Human Healthspan for all!

A Global Network Group, A Global Broker

A BETTER solution and deal for the producer, a BETTER product for the consumer. A BETTER Life, Powered by the Global Structure Network Group, and its Impact Partners. A Better Partner for households in every corner of the world. 

The Global Structure Network Group is credited with boosting the status of the Global Sector Economy including Global Self-care with its deep involvement in the Whole Person Ecosystem and the Social Determinants of Freedom and Personal Health and Wellbeing Prosperity shaping and influencing the Global Economy for the advancement of PEOPLE, their Potential, and households SUCCESS. Executives said they have noticed an increase in quality-of-life concerns since the story of the Global Structure Network Group went ubiquitously Global. In towns and cities in every corner of the world, PEOPLE are already outlining their list of expectations from a completed and implemented Group. Why? Households and companies for the first time in their lifetime have someone on their side and not only their side but an extension of the household with indelible SUCCESS underpinned by over two decades of PERFORMANCE. Transnational and Multilateral Organisations needed a Freedom and Personal Health and Wellbeing Prosperity veteran to boost public confidence in the Global Sector Economy and the wider Economy and they found that in the Global Structure Network Group. 

For the first time in a hundred years, households will be presented with a Freedom and Personal Health and Wellbeing Prosperity and Global Self-care Ecosystem spanning the full continuum of the Global Sector that will meet their needs for belonging, for contributing, for committing and for being reasonably in control of their destiny. The Founder and Impact Partners intends to use the Rolls Royce of SUCCESS and the Network Brand Philosophy underpinned by over two decades of PERFORMANCE to transform Freedom and Personal Health and Wellbeing Prosperity and Global Self-care into a dynamic, Health Promotion and Extended Healthspan driving force that had never been seen before and that will exist for generations to come. The Group is asking you to be patient and stay strong, there are great things in store for PEOPLE in every corner of the world. This century belongs to people and ordinary folks who have been left behind because they lacked the tools and services for a successful journey to live their best life for potential and culture with Value and Adding Value in focus. A poll showed the Global Structure Network Group and its Founder, and the Global Sector Economy supported by the Group to be the world’s most trusted leader for Freedom and Personal Health and Wellbeing Prosperity. Musical chairs are over, there is work to do because households must LIVE and not SURVIVE.

WE CAN DO THIS!

 

 

We love you! Stay Healthy!

 

Gary

 

 

Diamonds are Forever. 

The best science must lead to better lives. 

The Founder’s Gallery

Life is good when you Future Proof You, your family, and your business… in that order!

The Global Structure Network Group (Together we will Break New Ground) 

To influence Ownership of personal health and Ownership of self.

https://theglobalstructurenetwork.com/message-from-the-founder

The Global Structure Diamond International and Advocacy

https://www.gsdiandadvocacy.co.uk/

https://theglobalstructurenetwork.blogspot.com/

 

The Global Structure Group is a HYBRID Business that utilizes our resources and our work to deliver positive social and/or environmental benefits alongside financial returns.

 

The Global Structure Network Group and the Global Freedom and Personal Health and Wellbeing Prosperity Economy are inextricably linked. This is our time; this is our moment. Households everywhere will now feel part of something bigger.

 

 

The Founder continue to pay homage to the people and companies who are working tirelessly to make the Global Structure Network Group a SUCCESS. Looking forward to convening.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Seven rules of thumb to follow in aquaponics- Inspiring people to change the world by producing sustainable food in alternative ways

 Inspiring people to change the world by producing sustainable food in alternative ways

From a media bed unit start-up in Bangkok to a fully developed 120 households deep water culture (DWC) unit in Ethiopia, aquaponics is showcasing its true potential to produce sustainable food anytime, anywhere. A marriage between aquaculture (raising aquatic animals such as fish, snails or prawns in tanks) and hydroponics (cultivating plants in water), aquaponics is a ‘clean and green’ way of efficiently cultivating plants in recirculating systems. 

http://www.fao.org/fao-stories/article/en/c/1334597/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social+media&utm_campaign=fao

Building Back Better

 

Citation: OECD

Going for Growth: Shaping a vibrant recovery

 A unique opportunity to shape a vibrant recovery

After a devastating 2020, prospects are improving. The rollout of vaccines is giving us hope while extraordinary monetary and fiscal buffers continue to support firms, jobs and incomes, limiting the social and economic fallout of the pandemic. Importantly, COVID-19 has exposed how structural weaknesses can weigh on economic resilience. How we respond will shape the recovery and the future of our economies. Governments need to act now to address the structural obstacles to growth, build resilience and sustainability; boost productivity and facilitate reallocation; and help people adapt to change.

https://oecdecoscope.blog/2021/04/14/going-for-growth-shaping-a-vibrant-recovery/

Taming the Wave of Small and Medium Enterprise Insolvencies

The pandemic has hit small and medium enterprises particularly hard, partly because they are predominant in some contact-intensive sectors like hotels, restaurants, and entertainment. As a result, many advanced economies risk experiencing a wave of liquidations that could destroy millions of jobs, damage the financial system, and weaken an already fragile economic recovery. Policymakers should take novel and swift action to alleviate this wave.

“Quasi”-equity injections

Compared to past crises, this time around there is a clearer case for solvency support by governments. Because of the sheer magnitude of the problem, the costs of bankruptcies to society far exceed their costs to individual debtors and creditors. For example, if a wave of insolvencies overwhelms the courts, these could fail to restructure viable firms and push them into liquidation instead. Undue losses in valuable productive networks, human capital, and jobs would follow.

https://blogs.imf.org/2021/04/02/taming-the-wave-of-small-and-medium-enterprise-insolvencies/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery

It’s time to scale up regenerative agriculture: a win-win for farmers, food companies, and our environment

Conventional farming is one of the world’s greatest drivers of climate change and biodiversity loss, and we’re running out of time to reverse its adverse effects. But there is good news too: the largest study ever done on sustainable farming supports the idea that regenerative agriculture could be the answer to turning it all around. The study found that enhancing biodiversity on farms does not compromise yields, contrary to the longstanding belief held by many across the agricultural industry.

https://businessfightspoverty.org/its-time-to-scale-up-regenerative-agriculture-a-win-win-for-farmers-food-companies-and-our-environment/

 

Chronic pain sufferers should take exercise, not analgesics, says Nice

People suffering from chronic pain that has no known cause should not be prescribed painkillers, the medicines watchdog has announced, recommending such patients be offered exercise, talking therapies and acupuncture instead.

In a major change of pain treatment policy, the National Institute for health and Care Excellence (Nice) say that in future, doctors should advise sufferers to use physical and psychological therapies rather than analgesics to manage their pain.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/apr/07/chronic-pain-sufferers-should-take-exercise-not-analgesics-says-nice?utm_term=815dc5a6064cd1057081d692e8dbc796&utm_campaign=GuardianTodayUK&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&CMP=GTUK_email

International Society for the Study of Women's Sexual Health Clinical Practice Guideline for the Use of Systemic Testosterone for Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder in Women

Although the Global Position Statement endorses testosterone therapy for only postmenopausal women, limited data also support the use in late reproductive age premenopausal women, consistent with the International Society for the Study of Women's Sexual Health Process of Care for the Management of HSDD. Systemic transdermal testosterone is recommended for women with HSDD not primarily related to modifiable factors or comorbidities such as relationship or mental health problems. 

https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/jwh.2021.29037?utm_source=Adestra&utm_medium=email&utm_term=&utm_content=read1&utm_campaign=JWH%20FP%20APR%206%202021

Men and health promotion in the United Kingdom: 20 years further forward?

Abstract

Despite overall improvements in life expectancy, rates of premature male mortality, particularly for men in areas of socioeconomic deprivation, remain an important issue of concern in the United Kingdom. Interventions to engage men and promote their health and wellbeing have developed, albeit sporadically, over recent decades in response to this health inequity. This paper provides a 10-year update on the state of men’s health promotion in the United Kingdom. It begins by highlighting changes in male life expectancy and possible explanations for these shifts, including a relative failure to address mental health promotion and male suicide, before providing detail about how practice approaches to men’s health promotion have evolved over the period 2005–2016. Such changes are not removed from the wider socioeconomic context. This paper therefore, then, considers movements in the policy context and possible influences of this before exploring the challenges that remain for men’s health promotion. We suggest that despite certain improvements in the practice of men’s health promotion and in men’s health outcomes, issues remain in terms of premature mortality, particularly for certain groups of men. We further suggest that many of the difficulties in improving and promoting the health of men further lie with a market-driven neoliberal policy context that engenders inequality through the inequitable distribution of and access to material resources and through individualistic approaches to health promotion that serve men from economically and socially disadvantaged locations least well.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0017896916645558