It's the end of an era at Haarlemmerplein, where we once opened the True Price Store, showcasing the principles behind True Pricing and actual True Price products. This location was where we welcomed many of our esteemed Impact Institute partners and clients for countless meetings on impact measurement and management. We're excited to carry [...]
The world of business is increasingly looking to balance financial performance with social, natural and governance performance. Emmanuel Faber, president of the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB), has recently criticised sustainability reporting legislation Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and the basic concept of "double materiality". We are happy to set out how he overlooks [...]
Impact Institute and Cardano have joined forces to launch a pioneering biodiversity impact dataset. The data allows financial institutions to measure the impact on biodiversity of individual companies in their portfolios, paving the way to the next steps in the development of an international standard for measuring biodiversity loss in the financial sector. [...]
Last week marked the deadline for the regulation feedback period of the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) – First set of Draft, the backbone of the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD). The industry lobby has pressured the European Commission to make changes in the proposed set of drafts that were put together with [...]
Jellie Banga will leave Impact Institute on September 1st, 2023 to join the Executive Board of Invest-NL, with Adrian de Groot Ruiz succeeding her as CEO on July 1st. Additionally, Impact Institute will start the search for a non-executive Chair to succeed Jellie in that capacity on September 1st. In her new role [...]
The Impact Economy Foundation created the CVO of the year award with the aim of celebrating those who care as much about social and environmental value as financial value. We believe that it is possible to combine sustainability and profitability in business. The Impact Institute is proud to work with the IEF on this [...]
We recently published a whitepaper in close collaboration with the Erasmus Platform for Sustainable Value Creation: a platform with leading sustainable finance players in the industry and academia, including ABN AMRO, PGGM, DNB, Triodos, NWB, Robeco, Deloitte, the Rotterdam School of Management, and the Impact Economy Foundation. The whitepaper discusses the risks of [...]
Building on its flagship award-winning product, the Global Impact Database, Impact Institute launches a new dataset – developed through collaboration with the Dutch Asset Manager ACTIAM – to measure the biodiversity impact of companies and their value chains, providing actionable insights into the main drivers of biodiversity loss. Biodiversity loss [...]
Impact Institute is thrilled to announce that we have been accepted by the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) to become a member of its global Forum, as well as to join the recently launched Nature-related Data Catalyst. Impact Institute is now a member of the TNFD [...]
Amsterdam, 15 September 2022 Jellie Banga will take office as the new CEO of Impact Institute from 1st November. Until May 2021, Jellie Banga was Vice Chair and member of the Executive Board of Triodos Bank. Before that, she spent 12 years in various positions at ING. "For me, [...]
