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Insights Maryellen Stohlman-Vanderveen

Inclusion Illusion? Financial Inclusion as the new greenwashing 

Financial services companies wanting to capitalise on opportunities in emerging economies often claim to be driving financial inclusion in underserved markets. But are their commitments genuine, or modern-day greenwashing? How can firms truly committed to inclusion stand out from the noise?  The term “greenwashing” was coined in 1986 by the environmentalist Jay Westerveld to describe […]
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Eterna’s Summer Reading List – 2024

We’re placing our book club on hiatus over the summer to give us all more time to follow our own interests. Here are some of the books the Eterna team are looking forward to reading. Serra will be packing Stefan Kanfer’s ‘The Last Empire: De Beers, Diamonds and The World’ on her travels. With Anglo American’s announcement that […]
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Insights Maryellen Stohlman-Vanderveen

Growing pains? Communication strategies for a maturing longevity sector

The search for immortality, the elixir of life, is as old as human existence.  The finality of death and the promise of an afterlife fuels many of the world’s faiths, and history is littered with cranks, charlatans, and seers who claim to have discovered the philosopher’s stone.   But contemporary biology may be offering, if not […]
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Effective Environmentalism & Communication – Eterna’s Book Club

By contextualising environmental data, we can better understand the realities of climate change, the progress we have already made, and how we can continue to develop sustainably This might be the sustainable future portrayed by the media, but Oxford researcher and Deputy Editor of Our World in Data Hannah Ritchie has a different vision. Her […]