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Advancing gender equality through gender lens investing
Examines gender lens investing as an approach integrating gender analysis into investment decisions to promote equality and returns. Outlines strategies, benefits, challenges, and case studies, linking to SDGs and emphasising measurement, engagement, and diverse investment practices.
You Built This
This article argues that modern investment strategies fuel economic extraction while often underperforming simpler alternatives. It calls on investors to realign portfolios with productive, community-oriented investments that generate real economic and social value.
Market assessment on critical minerals innovation in developing countries
This report assesses critical minerals innovation in developing countries, focusing on midstream processing and downstream manufacturing, recycling and end-of-life treatment. It reviews 30 countries, highlights policy and financing gaps, and recommends stronger infrastructure, coordination, technology transfer and support for innovation ecosystems.
Resourcing the solidarity economy: Insights on building community power through reorganising wealth
This report examines how solidarity economy organisations can be resourced through wealth redistribution, arguing they are underfunded, misrecognised and poorly served by conventional investment models. It recommends reparative, community-led financing and ecosystem support rather than profit-focused, repayable finance.
Investors for Purpose
Investors for Purpose is a membership network supporting institutional investors, pension funds and advisers to advance impact investing and sustainable finance. Through research, training, events and a collaborative community, it promotes best practice and knowledge sharing to help direct capital towards investments that deliver positive environmental and social outcomes.
Marico Innovation Foundation
Marico Innovation Foundation (MIF) is a philanthropic organisation that supports impact-driven innovation and entrepreneurship in India. It works with startups, innovators and ecosystem partners to scale solutions in areas such as climate adaptation, plastic waste management, clean technology and agriculture technology, aiming to create large-scale social, environmental and economic impact.
Surviving on breadcrumbs: Resourcing radical hope
The report reflects on UK research mapping about 2,000 organisations building alternative economic futures and examines funding challenges. It urges funders and wealth holders to reconsider investment practices, support ecosystem development, and allocate resources towards initiatives fostering regenerative, equitable economic models and systemic change.
LSTA Sustainable Lending Library
The LSTA Sustainable Lending Library compiles market-standard frameworks and guidance for green, social and sustainability-linked loans, plus a draft Transition Loans Guide. Developed with LMA and APLMA, it supports consistent application of sustainable finance principles in private credit and syndicated loan markets.
From bonds to blended Finance: How a diverse range of financial instruments are financing climate adaptation and resilience
Analyses 162 cases (2015–2025) of 11 financial instruments financing climate adaptation. Finds blended finance most prevalent, with instruments mainly supporting ex-ante risk reduction. Adaptation finance is largely pooled and increasingly multicountry. Use varies by income level, highlighting growing innovation to mobilise capital for resilience.
Total Impact Portfolio: Constructing an investment portfolio with an impact lens
This guide outlines constructing a Total Impact Portfolio (TIP), integrating risk, return and impact across all asset classes. It explains double materiality, portfolio design steps, responsible investment strategies, measurement frameworks and barriers. Case studies illustrate Australian and international asset owners embedding impact within governance, allocation and performance management.
Aurora Trust
Aurora Trust is a UK-based grant-making charity focused on climate change mitigation, environmental conservation and sustainable development. Part of the Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts, it funds programmes in nature connection, sustainable farming, stopping deforestation and energy efficiency to support efforts aligned with the Paris Agreement’s 1.5 °C goal.
Invisible barriers: How gender norms impact financial inclusion A framework for classifying norms and developing strategies to address them
This CGAP Focus Note presents a framework classifying gender norms by strength and prevalence to address barriers to women’s financial inclusion. Drawing on diagnostics in Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda, it outlines four intervention strategies for development and market actors to transform financial systems and advance women’s economic empowerment.
We can’t ignore the largest source of methane
This article argues the global food system is the largest source of human-caused methane and deserves far more policy and funding attention. It maps key emission “hot spots”—ruminant livestock, food waste in landfills, biomass burning, and flooded rice fields—and outlines practical mitigation options from dietary shifts to landfill capture and improved rice management.
State of the Sovereign Transition
This report reviews the climate change performance of 85 countries against the ASCOR framework, analyzing emissions pathways, climate policies, and finance to inform investor decision-making and sovereign engagement.
The visionary CEO's guide to sustainability series
Bain & Company's 2025 sustainability guide for CEOs covering the do-say gap, AI, climate resilience, decarbonization, circular models, and carbon removal markets.
Net Zero Asset Managers' target disclosures series
The Net Zero Asset Managers Target Disclosures is a reporting series that tracks how participating asset managers set, disclose, and update net zero targets over time. It provides a consistent, initiative-wide view of commitments, disclosure practices, governance arrangements, and methodological approaches across reporting years.