Impact measurement

The Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) has launched a beta version of its first impact performance benchmark. It will allow investors to assess and compare sector-specific impact performance to peers and to SDGs, and to make investment choices to maximise impact

A study by Esade Center for Social Impact and banking foundation BBK finds that impact measurement and management is starting to take a central place in the daily life of Europe’s foundations

Investors can play a key role in funding solutions to water problems but a lack of global standards to measure water impact remains a barrier.

In brief

Policymakers and investors are not paying as much attention to water as they do to energy transition
Better policies and more investment are needed to tackle water-related problems, from water access […]

Accounting for impact is notoriously difficult. Methodologies vary from one investor to the next. Impact investing, however, can only scale if they adopt harmonised standards. In a short series, we look at progress made in different sectors.

Companies are all expressing promising impact statements nowadays. But how do you make sure these promises are kept?

Sama, a San Francisco-based data-training company, decided a few years ago that it was time to run its impact numbers through an independent randomly controlled trial. The risk paid off.

The &Green Fund is striving for deforestation-free supply chains of the biggest agricultural commodities. Transforming entire supply chains is admittedly very complex. This begs the question: how?

Organisations who want to monitor their impact should first and foremost gather data from people on the ground, says 60 Decibels. The American company is developing a new impact index based on end-user data.

Judith Rodin and Saadia Madsbjerg, veterans of the Rockefeller Foundation “explore a burgeoning movement of bold and ambitious innovators,” and tell us it’s time to add the R of resilience to ‘ESG’.

Nasdaq, the tech stock exchange, has teamed up with seven specialist ESG/impact data providers for a new platform providing investors with a wide range of comparable data sets.