Policy & regulation

Organisations representing impact investors, including the the European Venture Philanthropy Association and the Global Steering Group for Impact Investment, are pooling resources to uncover a reliable picture of Europe’s impact investment sector

The implementation of the European Commission’s Social Economy Action Plan presents challenges, but it has placed social investment at the heart of the EU’s post-Covid recovery programme

Representatives of 175 nations have committed to develop a legally binding agreement to beat plastic pollution, hailed as the most significant environmental multilateral deal since the Paris accord on climate

The reluctance of mainstream institutional investors to make impact investments in the high-risk regions where they are most needed, according to a recently published report by the Impact Taskforce, a G7-backed think tank..

The EU’s sustainable finance framework is already shaping the bloc’s investment landscape regardless of ongoing uncertainties around the full implementation of the new regulatory environment. But will it go far enough?

Social entrepreneurship is rising on the European political agenda, pushed by the pandemic. We look ahead to the European Commission upcoming action plan for the social economy.

Brussels has big plans for how to make the EU’s steel industry (almost) emission free. “There is a great surge to make hydrogen fuel take off,” said Carole Ferguson of Industry Tracker.

The risk weighting of climate change in capital allocations is a fraction of what it should be, says Thierry Philipponnat of Finance Watch.

After more than a decade of working on sustainable finance at Deutsche Börse, Kristina Jeromin is now campaigning to become a MP for Germany’s Green Party. We need a whole new definition of returns on capital, she says.

This summer Impact Investor talks to investors and entrepreneurs about how the pandemic has shifted priorities. This week: Delphine Moralis, the new CEO of the European Foundation Centre.