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Read more at: Positive Impact: Enabling investors to achieve positive impact against the Sustainable Development Goals
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Positive Impact: Enabling investors to achieve positive impact against the Sustainable Development Goals

Why positive impact matters The Sustainable Development Goals and Paris Climate Agreement have given the private sector welcome clarity about what success for truly sustainable development looks like over coming decades. They have also prompted the emerging realisation that for business models to...


Read more at: CISL’s Centre for Sustainable Finance welcomes the UK’s Green Finance Strategy
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CISL’s Centre for Sustainable Finance welcomes the UK’s Green Finance Strategy

1 July 2019

2 July 2019 – Today the UK government has launched its Green Finance Strategy, setting out its green finance objectives and ambitions.


Read more at: Applying the Long View to Investment Funds: Introducing the Long-term Disclosure Framework

Applying the Long View to Investment Funds: Introducing the Long-term Disclosure Framework

March 2019 – The Investment Leaders Group (ILG) has developed an original framework that can be used by institutional and retail investors, and by their advisors, to assess the long-term orientation of the investment funds that they are being offered.


Read more at: In search of impact - Measuring the full value of capital: Update: The Sustainable Investment Framework

In search of impact - Measuring the full value of capital: Update: The Sustainable Investment Framework

January 2019 – Supporting progress against SDGs has become one of the main objectives of the sustainable finance industry. However, measurement of this progress at fund level from both institutional and retail investors is still only developing. Although many challenges remain to be solved, the Investment Leaders Group, convened by the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) has designed a set of six open-source metrics which investors can use as proxies for their progress towards the SDGs.


Read more at: Better measures needed to help savers choose investment products, new report finds
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Better measures needed to help savers choose investment products, new report finds

28 January 2019

January 31 2019 – The Investment Leaders Group found that the data necessary to assess the social and environmental impact of funds is lacking.


Read more at: Measuring investment impacts

Measuring investment impacts

The Investment Leaders Group (ILG) has developed an original framework to allow the industry to quantify investment impacts. Our aim is to enable a ‘revolution’ in consumer choice in financial services. This means making the social and environmental impacts of investment transparent to financial consumers in the same way that health and other concerns are apparent to food consumers today.


Read more at: Trustees should prioritise climate risk
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Trustees should prioritise climate risk

15 October 2018 – The facts speak for themselves and must be acted on – trustees need to prioritise climate risk says Andrew Voysey, CISL’s Director for Sustainable Finance.


Read more at: Understanding investments’ sustainability performance to enable more sustainable investment choices

Understanding investments’ sustainability performance to enable more sustainable investment choices

October 2018 – The concept note proposes a new approach that would help pension beneficiaries make better decisions regarding the sustainability performance of their pensions.


Read more at: In search of impact: Measuring the full value of capital

In search of impact: Measuring the full value of capital

May 2016 – As fiduciaries, investors gain by helping beneficiaries make informed choices about the management of their savings and investments. This report aims to help the investment industry empower savers to understand the impact of their investments on the critical challenges of our generation and to invest in line with their world views.