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Family offices: A roadmap to impact
The report provides actionable advice for family offices integrating impact investing, drawing from real experiences. It offers insights on internal advocacy, impact framework creation, and investment policy statement development. The document explores allocation choices for impact capital and underscores the significance of collaborating with external advisers and managers.
Sustainable Development Goals Disclosure (SDGD) recommendations
The Sustainable Development Goals Disclosure (SDGD) Recommendations features guidelines for corporate reporting to promote best practices and encourage corporate accountability and governance aligned with SDGs. The document includes fundamental concepts and principles of SDG disclosure, recommendations, and steps to guide implementation, offering insights for assurance providers, governments, investors, and reporting organizations of all sizes
The investor's guide to impact: Evidence-based advice for investors who want to change the world
This guide is for investors who want to generate positive social and environmental impact through their investments. It explains what investor impact is and how it differs from company impact. It also details the mechanisms through which investors can effect change, such as enabling the growth of impactful companies and encouraging improvement in less sustainable companies.
Impact investor guide 2024
The Impact Investor Guide 2024 offers insights into the latest developments in impact investing with a comprehensive look across various asset classes and geographies examining how impact funds balance impact and financial returns. It features valuable insights from key industry figures and examines the challenges the sector faces.
Capital markets and modern slavery
This report synthesises evidence on the role of investors in addressing modern slavery in global supply chains. Key findings reveal that data limitations pose a significant challenge for investor action. Additionally, drivers for investor action include moral standing, financial incentives, regulatory compliance, and investor-led engagement.
Navigating impact investing: The opportunity in impact classes
This working paper aims to bring greater clarity and understanding to the impact investing field, which is characterised by diversity and complexity. Omidyar Network led this field-building initiative, with contributions from 45 expert interviews. The report outlines a concept for building “impact classes,” or common structures for assessing impact investing options.
Breaking the plastic wave: A comprehensive assessment of pathways towards stopping ocean plastic pollution
This report highlights innovative solutions and strategies that can reduce plastic pollution by 80% by transforming how plastic is produced, used, and managed. The report uses thorough analysis to identify specific opportunities for various stakeholders - from policymakers to businesses and consumers - to curb plastic waste and achieve measurable results.
Impact due diligence and management for asset allocators: A field guide
This report provides practical guidance for asset allocators to evaluate and manage private market funds that invest for positive impact. It covers the pre and post-investment stages, including conducting diligence of impact managers and monitoring and engaging with them
New frontiers in value creation: A guide to impact value creation in collaboration with impact capital managers
This report explores new frontiers in impact value creation across private markets. It discusses key considerations for financial materiality of impact, sources of impact value creation, and modalities for impact value creation with a focus on case studies.
Truth in impact: A Tideline guide to using the impact investment label
This report provides insights on sustainable investing labelling. Investors can self-classify and maintain market integrity through clear, accurate labelling backed by independent verification. The report offers a proprietary Framework for Impact Labeling, case studies, and observations about sustainable investing.
Financial crime compliance to fight modern slavery and human trafficking
This blueprint urges financial institutions to tackle human trafficking and modern slavery, suggesting that both are a financial crime and compliance risk, and warns against wholesale de-risking. This report outlines strategies for detecting financing of such illegal activities, reducing risk, and government action towards AML/CFT risk assessments, ahead of regulatory fines and sanctions in jurisdictions worldwide.
Investor engagement to fight modern slavery and human trafficking
This report provides insights on how investors can engage with businesses to fight modern slavery and human trafficking. Such efforts are underpinned by building and utilizing leverage on companies. It provides guidance on identifying salient modern slavery risks and making divestment decisions if efforts to engage are unsuccessful in addressing modern slavery and human trafficking risks.
On the importance of assurance in carbon accounting
This paper examines the importance of assurance in corporate carbon accounting, finding that firms with assurance report higher carbon intensity than peers; and that controlling for assurance, there is no evidence that SBTi target-setters reduce their future emissions, while firms that obtain assurance reduce future carbon intensity.
Full disclosure: Improving corporate reporting on climate risk
This report summarises how investors utilize corporate reporting to manage climate-related financial risks, identify opportunities, and set strategies for transitioning to net-zero emissions. The report contains investors' expectations from climate reports, insights on scenario analysis, and recommendations for improving corporate disclosure on climate risks.
Managing nature-related financial risks: A precautionary policy approach for central banks and financial supervisors
This research paper argues that central banks and financial supervisors must adopt a precautionary policy approach to address the increasing nature-related financial risks in both the real economy and the financial system. This approach should be integrated into a wider set of regulatory and policy instruments to tackle environmental breakdown.
Prioritising nature-related disclosures: Considerations for high-risk sectors
This report outlines information on high-risk sectors for nature-related disclosures and their dependencies and impacts. It identifies sectors with the greatest risk and vulnerabilities and provides sector-based insights to deploy financial risk management and report nature-related financial disclosure in a consistent and meaningful manner.