How you can invest in nature! The radical shift towards Innovation-in-Conservation
Innovation in conservation is big business, we’re in the midst of a revolution in how companies and investors manage their impacts on nature.
Innovation in conservation is big business, we’re in the midst of a revolution in how companies and investors manage their impacts on nature.
We can’t rush to impact management, without sufficient impact measurement. Sourcing accurate data is key.
We were there to talk about impact investing, and more specifically ‘Lifting the bar on impact reporting in an era of transparency and accountability’.
Greenwashing is when a firm’s public statements don’t match the investment policy. The solution is to embed subject-matter expertise into your comms team.
The maturing of impact frameworks is what gave rise to The Impact Stack, but it’s still a young sector.
And how the new Safeguard Mechanism rekindled my faith in a carbon market.
If disinformation by big-oil is at one end of the spectrum, climate-doomism is at the other. And neither gets us closer to our goal.
We know ESG isn’t perfect, but it shouldn’t be criticised for failing to do something it never intended to do.
What’s most frustrating about the debate is the framing of ESG as being a panacea for the problems of modern capitalism.
Tesla leads on EV’s, and it changed the world. So, you’d think Elon Musk would be a fan of ESG. But, not quite.
From their perspective, ESG and impact investing had pushed into the mainstream. We’re no longer radical outsiders.