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Three Trends Transforming Impact Investing

Chris Hall

Krisztina Tora, Chief Market Development Officer at the Global Steering Group for Impact Investment, outlines three key areas that show great potential to improve outcomes at scale for people and the planet. 2022 was a landmark year for impact investing. billion overall in 2022, according to Tameo.

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Impact Investors Must “Get Closer” to Avoid Entrenching Inequality

Chris Hall

Investors’ impact monitoring and reporting processes may contribute to worsening equality, with those most in need of financing finding it harder to access, according to new research. Closing the gap To address impact-washing risk, governments should set clear boundaries and principles for impact standard development, the report noted.

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The Next Generation of DFI Technical Assistance: Why it’s Time for Development Finance Institutions to Take a Standardised Approach

James Militzer

And the IFC’s Performance Standards on Environmental and Social Sustainability have become industry practice across the DFI community when it comes to assessing and managing environmental, social and governance issues. As both the scale and the need for DFI TA programmes continue to grow, it’s time to start this conversation.

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Top 10 Business Sustainability Issues of 2023

B the Change

Social sustainability requires considering their needs. There’s a need for examples of organizations with “successful social justice strategies and processes,” wrote a North American academic. Get Started: What Is Social Sustainability provides an overall framework for action. Sustainable Finance 10.

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Climate tops ESG Priorities for US Institutional Investors

Chris Hall

The second most important ESG issue factored into asset owners’ investment decision-making was avoiding firms doing business in countries of high conflict risk, affecting US$3.28 In the 2022 report, it was followed by board issues (US$2.87 Both environmental and social proposals are winning greater levels of support, it noted.

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The Power of Results-Based Funding for Poverty Alleviation: What We Learned from Africa’s First-Ever Development Impact Bond – and What’s Next

James Militzer

The program generated sustained increases in spending, assets and savings for participating households, improving the livelihoods of an estimated 95,000 people living in extreme poverty, including 70,000 women and children. trillion annual financing gap.

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When Green is Gold

Chris Hall

An important key to unlocking that finance lies in green and sustainable emerging market bonds, which promise lenders both returns and the opportunity to invest in projects with an ESG impact. trillion by September, with demand for emerging market labelled bonds far outstripping the rest of the world.