Guide 2023

Soaring interest rates and the energy crisis are major challenges for real estate investors. From affordable housing to low-carbon logistics, how are impact investors navigating the current turmoil?

Plans to develop the hydrogen economy have been accelerated by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and by governments and investors coming together to finance and capitalise on the ‘clean’ hydrogen revolution.

Technological advances have given access to financial products to millions but bringing the hardest-to-reach ‘unbanked’ into the financial system remains the sector’s biggest challenge.

Despite the many bumps ahead, the road to net zero presents many opportunities for investment returns and impact.

Female and mixed gender-led businesses remain grossly underfunded and largely ignored by mainstream investors, but the tide is beginning to turn. 

Oceans cover more than 70% of the planet, producing at least 50% of the oxygen and absorbing at least 25% of all the atmospheric CO2. Building a sustainable ocean economy is a triple win for people, planet, and the economy. 

Impact investors are split on whether nature-based investing is nascent, just about to take off or already the next big thing. But they do agree that the current threat to biodiversity is unsustainable and that industry leadership is needed.

Investors can turn to an increasingly sophisticated array of impact measurement and management tools to help track and maximise the impact of their investment strategies.

The CEO of Phenix Capital Group talks to Paula Garrido about how the impact investing universe has expanded in size and across asset classes, as more investment managers and asset owners join in. 

Viewpoint: EVPA’s CEO argues that when it comes to generating big impact, we might need to throw out the rulebook, forget about incrementalism and start from the challenges we need to solve.