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’s Global Impact Database (GID) has won Environmental Finance Impact Awards 2022 in the category Award for impact measurement and metrics! Environmental Finance's Impact Awards seek to recognise and reward the work within the impact investing market and highlight emerging pockets of best practice, across all asset classes and geographies. An [...]
According to the recent report published by ABN AMRO, based on a cross-sector research by the Bank and Impact Institute, the Dutch economy is responsible for about 40 billion euros worth of damage to ecosystem services. The calculated damage corresponds to approximately 5 percent of the Dutch GDP in the year 2020, [...]
What are PAIs? Since Q2 2021, in an effort towards increasing transparency and integrating sustainability risks, the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) imposes mandatory ESG disclosure: investors must report on Principal Adverse Impacts (PAIs) of their portfolios. PAI consist of a list of sustainability factors that firms need to take into account [...]
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 [...]
Our Global Impact Database (GID) has been included in the 2022 edition of Environmental Finance ESG Data Guide, which every year provides investors and other market players with a guide for navigating the rapidly evolving landscape of sustainability data products. The GID was officially launched in 2019. It [...]
