An impact economy promotes the durability, reparability, and recyclability of products and resources to stay within planetary boundaries. Our world needs circular business models, infrastructure, materials, and design practices that consider workers’ and human rights.
Impact measurement and reporting
Measuring impact supports businesses and their partners in gaining insight into the effects of business activities on people and planet. Sustainable material and resource use requires circular business models and transparency on impact of materials and industrial processes.
Impact management and strategy
To achieve the Impact Economy, the world must transition towards sustainable material & resource use. Respect for planetary boundaries & workers’ rights as well as durability, reparability, recyclability should be embedded in all life cycle phases. Integrating impact information in decision-making enables businesses to transition towards sustainable material and resource use.
Priority areas
Circularity
Renewables, clean and affordable energy, just transition, decarbonisation
Materials Use
Sustainable packaging, durability, biodiversity
Resource Management
Waste to resources, resource management
Global Value Chains
Impact of plastics, environmental impact, livelihoods & human health
Publications
DownloadCreating shared value in the rose supply chain
Report by True Price, commissioned by Hivos. The business case for a Living Wage Rose in Kenya, closing the gap…
DownloadTowards the True Price, true value and true profit of food
Report by True Price, commissioned by Wageningen University & Research. A roadmap to drive the social impact of food.
DownloadLiving income assessment of ivorian cocoa farmers
Fairtrade International wanted to measure farmer household income and living income of Fairtrade certified cocoa farmers.
DownloadUnderstanding the societal impact of academic research
Together with Singapore Management University and Singapore Green Finance Centre, we created Impact Pathways including specific data points for qualitatively…
