
Impact Investing Ecosystem:
Global Initiatives
Welcome to our Global Initiatives page, featuring an collection of organisations that are devoted to assisting impact-led investors globally.
From impact reporting standards to impact investment thought leadership, here you will find networks and resources that can support you in navigating the realm of impactful investing around the world.
Global Initiatives
Global Organisation/Intiative
Description
GIIN focuses on reducing barriers to impact investment so more investors can allocate capital to fund solutions to the world's most intractable challenges. GIIN does this by building critical infrastructure and developing activities, education, and research that help accelerate the development of a coherent impact investing industry.
The Global Reporting Initiative is an international independent standards organisation that helps businesses, governments and other organisations understand and communicate their impacts on issues such as climate change, human rights and corruption.
A registered UK charity since November 2017, The Global Steering Group for Impact Investment (GSG) currently has 35 member countries. Chaired by Sir Ronald Cohen, the GSG brings together leaders from finance, business and philanthropy to solve some of the world’s most pressing social and environmental challenges. GSG is an independent organisation catalysing impact investment and entrepreneurship to benefit people and the planet.
The IMP has brought together a range of different organisations to build and further global consensus on how to measure, assess and report impacts on people and the environment.
The mission of the Impact-Weighted Accounts Project is to drive the creation of financial accounts that reflect a company’s financial, social, and environmental performance. Its ambition is to create accounting statements that transparently capture external impacts in a way that drives investor and managerial decision making.
SASB Standards guide the disclosure of financially material sustainability information by companies to their investors. Available for 77 industries, the Standards identify the subset of environmental, social, and governance issues most relevant to financial performance in each industry.
The Task Force on Climate Related Financial Disclosures provides information to investors about what companies are doing to mitigate the risks of climate change, as well as be transparent about the way in which they are governed
The Taskforce on Nature-Related Financial Disclosures will develop recommendations that organisations can follow when disclosing information about the exposure of their companies to natural hazards.
Toniic is a global community of asset owners seeking deeper positive net impact across the spectrum of capital
The United Nations Global Compact is a non-binding United Nations pact to encourage businesses and firms worldwide to adopt sustainable and socially responsible policies, and to report on their implementation
The Value Reporting Foundation is a global nonprofit organisation that offers a comprehensive suite of resources designed to help businesses and investors develop a shared understanding of enterprise value—how it is created, preserved or eroded over time. The resources— including the Integrated Thinking Principles, the Integrated Reporting Framework and SASB Standards—can be used alone or in combination, depending on business needs.