Wednesday, 25 January, 2012
Business Insight: Carbon offsetting and the social entrepreneur
Apart from the captains of industry, the 40 heads of state and masses of global media attending, there will be 30 social entrepreneurs attending the World Economic Forum’s annual conference in Davos this week. WRS’s Pete Forster discovers what a social entrepreneur is and speaks to the Swiss co-winner of 2011 Schwab Foundation prize, Renat Heuerberger, CEO of South Pole Carbon Asset management. Forster also explores the carbon offsetting market at a talk with one of Switzerland’s leading advisors on social business, Dr. Maximilian Martin, the managing director of Impact Economy:
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I listened with great interest to programme last night on the story about social entrepreneurs . I am a visitor to Geneva who is seeking for avenues that benefit society through which one may make a difference with and at the same time make some living through .
I am from Africa , where I find that there is not maximization of peoples potential and there is possibility to improve people’s livelihoods through capacity building in activities that they are already involved . The challenge is provision of both skills and some capital to kick start the process towards change that is based on self effort and that becomes a catalyst to further growth . I would welcome leads into making this possibility a reality
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