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Just transition criteria: How to align investments with a just transition
The report offers just transition criteria for investors, aligning products with climate action, socio-economic equity, and community involvement. It enhances existing frameworks, ensuring global alignment for a net-zero transition while emphasizing the three key elements: climate action, socio-economic equity, and community voice.
Fostering impact: An investor guide for engaging communities in place-based impact investing
This paper provides real-life cases and practical steps to integrate community engagement in investment processes. It offers methods for investors to identify and pursue community engagement opportunities, outlining different ways to incorporate engagement into investment decision-making.
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.
Seeing through the green: A guide to greenwashing risks for asset managers
This report is an in-depth analysis of the risks and pitfalls of greenwashing in sustainable investments. It provides an overview of the current regulatory landscape, common greenwashing practices, and best practices for addressing them.
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.
Global assessment report on disaster risk reduction - our world at risk: Transforming governance for a resilient future
The report explores the challenges faced in managing systemic risk, the complexity of decision-making in volatile situations and offers solutions for improving risk communication.
Investing for outcomes: Why impact is relevant beyond impact investing
This report explores the importance of measuring the impact of investing activities, particularly in the increasingly popular field of impact investing. It discusses the use of data to assess a company's social and environmental footprint, the role of taxonomies in impact investing, and the rise of impact awareness.
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.
Impact investing for pensions
This report analyses the growth of impact investing strategies among European pension funds. The report examines challenges and opportunities, regulatory restrictions, impact measurement and management, private equity case studies, and emerging investments in affordable and social housing.
Impact investing 2.0: The way forward
This research aims to provide insights on the rapidly evolving impact investing landscape. The report is based on a survey of 12 high-performing impact investing funds that represent a diversity of asset classes, objectives, geographies, and impact areas.
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
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.
Gender bonds: A toolkit for the design and issuance of gender bonds in Africa
This toolkit was prepared to design and issue gender bonds in Africa. It provides recommendations for issuers and investors on the issuance and monitoring of gender bonds with a focus on transparency and reporting.