The Global Impact Investing Network

The impact investing market offers diverse opportunities for investors to advance social and environmental solutions while achieving financial returns. At the GIIN, the core characteristics of impact investing serve as a cornerstone for guiding investments that contribute to meaningful impacts while upholding integrity through credible practices and partnerships. ?? We want to hear from you: How do you ensure your investments uphold your values and maintain integrity? Whether through intentionality, using data to guide decisions, managing impact performance or fostering collaboration to grow the field — your insights can spark valuable conversations. Share your strategies, experiences or challenges in the comments below. ?? Missed the original post? Dive into the core characteristics of impact investing here: https://lnkd.in/ezr8rrtb #ImpactInvesting #SocialImpact #GIIN

Addressing global challenges like climate change and inequality requires significantly more capital — and a broader range of investors — than is currently available. Private capital plays a critical role in addressing these issues, complementing philanthropy and government funding. Introduced in 2019 as part of the GIIN’s mission to scale the field with integrity, the core characteristics of impact investing provide a clear framework for what credible impact investing entails, offering essential guidance to financial markets. These four fundamental tenets were established in partnership with leading practitioners to set baseline expectations for an effective, integrity-driven approach to impact investing: ? ?? Intentionality: A deliberate focus on generating measurable social and environmental benefits. ?? Evidence-based investment design: Leveraging data and insights available to drive intelligent investment design that will be useful in contributing to ensure meaningful impact. ?? Impact management: Actively managing investments to align with and achieve stated impact objectives. ?? Supporting industry growth: Fostering collaboration and knowledge-sharing to build a stronger, more effective market. At a moment when climate finance is a central focus at COP29, impact investors are uniquely positioned to address the financing gaps needed to address these global challenges — and the GIIN provides a framework that guides all investors to act with both urgency and credibility to meet the demand for solutions. Discover how these core characteristics can guide your investment strategy and support the growth of a robust and effective impact investing market: https://lnkd.in/e98kP2qp #ImpactInvesting #ClimateAction #COP29 #SocialImpact #GIIN

The Danish Impact Committee is advancing crucial discussions on active ownership and measurable impact, driving collaboration and collective action across the impact investing community. This event represents a significant milestone in our new partnership, which is dedicated to promoting impact investing in Denmark and unlocking greater capital for impact. Engaging more investors is critical to addressing global challenges and creating a sustainable, inclusive future. Partnerships like this are instrumental in achieving that vision. #ImpactInvesting #DanishImpactCommittee #SocialImpact

"We’re entering a new stage of impact investing where standards, innovation and measurement matter more than ever,” shares Amit Bouri, CEO and co-founder of the GIIN, in a recent feature by New Private Markets. Large institutional investors are driving the integration of impact investing into mainstream finance, and are increasingly prioritizing sustainability and measurable outcomes. Read more on how impact investing is evolving and shaping the future of global finance:?https://lnkd.in/g4nyMWMh #ImpactInvesting #SDGs #SocialImpact

"We’re looking to get every investment to consider impact, while recognizing that not every investment will be for impact," says GIIN's Director of Institutional Engagement Christian Rosenholm, in a recent feature by Impact-Investor.com. The article captures the significance of institutional asset owners in advancing a sustainable future, as detailed in the GIIN’s Pursuing Impact Within a Portfolio: Insights From Institutional Asset Owners report. Read more on how institutional asset owners are transforming investment strategies by embedding impact across their portfolios:?https://lnkd.in/eA6FYHhE #ImpactInvesting #InstitutionalAssetOwners #SDGs

From all of us at the GIIN, thank you to everyone who made the GIIN Impact Forum 2024 in Amsterdam such a remarkable gathering. This year’s event brought together 1,600 attendees from over 80 countries, united by a commitment to investing in solutions for our planet’s most urgent needs through dynamic discussions across 56 sessions. The GIIN Impact Forum remains a key space where finance leaders and impact investing experts convene to advance and refine the tools, strategies and ideas shaping the future of #impactinvesting. Whether you’re new to the field or a seasoned investor, the forum offers networking opportunities and thought-provoking programming that provides attendees with new approaches and actionable insights to drive greater impact in their work. Mark your calendars for #GIINImpactForum2025 on October 7-9 in Berlin and stay tuned for updates on registration, speakers and program highlights. #ImpactInvesting #ClimateAction #SDGs

Climate security requires smart investing. Here are some climate investing trends identified by the GIIN during COP29.

As COP29 kicks off, here are a few trends the GIIN is watching, and why these points are critical in achieving climate goals: ??Invest in climate innovation: To achieve urgent climate targets, climate solutions need to go beyond decarbonization, with new technological innovations to reduce or eliminate emissions. ?? Focus on emerging markets: Recent GIIN research shows over half of impact investors plan to increase allocations to emerging markets in the next five years. It’s crucial that these investments include climate solutions, adaptation and resiliency. Notably, DFIs allocate a much higher proportion (97%) of their AUM across sectors? to emerging markets than traditional investment managers (22%). ? Focus on energy and infrastructure: Recent GIIN research shows that increasing capital flow toward energy and sustainable infrastructure will be pivotal for driving climate resilience and adaptation outcomes worldwide. ?? Prioritize impact measurement: The recent calls for transparency and accountability at COP29 mirror the trends the GIIN reported on in this year's State of the Market 2024 report. Investors shared with the GIIN that using science-based targets and third-party verifications are ways in which they are making sure their investments are driving real impact. ?? Move beyond commitments: Country-level pledges at COP29, from net-zero targets to biodiversity protection, will influence the impact investing market as investors tell the GIIN that many of them closely track these commitments when designing portfolios in order to seek or maintain alignment with broader, global objectives. Learn more about how the GIIN is advancing climate action and explore resources to make an impact: https://lnkd.in/enMuBZYb #COP29 #ImpactInvesting #ClimateAction #SDGs

?? When asset owners invest in climate solutions, how can they be sure that the capital they deploy is making the maximum contribution toward a net zero economy???? That is the question the GIIN’s climate solutions initiative seeks to address. Today, the GIIN is publishing a report that summarizes current resources and challenges for climate solutions investors. This report is the first in a series of inputs toward developing a climate solutions investing framework. Climate solutions investments can enable decarbonizing existing processes and creating and deploying new low- or zero-emissions assets. This work is critical to meet the goal of stabilizing the climate at no more than 1.5 C above pre-industrial temperatures and avoiding the worst consequences of climate change. Download the report to learn more today, and thank you to our partners Nuveen, a TIAA company and the Soros Economic Development Fund for financially supporting this publication. https://bit.ly/4elmZyx #impactinvesting #climateinvesting #climatesolutions

In an interview with?Forbes, GIIN’s Chief Research Officer, Dean Hand, shared key insights from the State of the Market 2024: Trends, Performance, and Allocations report, detailing the rapid expansion of impact investing, marked by larger players, greater sophistication and a shift to mature investment strategies.??? Read the full?piece from Anne Field?for a deep dive into these insights: https://lnkd.in/g5kmhxEG #ImpactInvesting #AI #ClimateAction #SDGs