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How-To: Motivate Portfolio Companies to Prioritize ESG (Part I)

Welcome to a 3 part series on how to motivate portfolio companies to prioritize ESG. Part 1: Understanding the Obstacles for Portfolio Companies In a recent PricewaterhouseCoopers survey, 49 percent of investors responded that they would be willing to divest from companies that are not taking sufficient action on ESG

Latin America: An Emerging Impact Market

With an enormous GDP and a population primed to take advantage of technological advancements, investment in Latin America is poised to accelerate exponentially and impact a vast number of people. First, the facts Latin America (LatAm) has a population of 700 million and a total GDP of $6T USD. To

Bottom-up Approaches to Measuring the Total Impact of Clean Energy Investments

“The Just Transition isn’t a movement anymore — it’s a reality for the way we are undertaking the clean energy transition.” On October 27, 2021, Proof launched the first webinar of its clean energy webinar series focused on bottom-up approaches to measuring the total impact of clean energy investments.

Effective Impact Data Reporting for Investment Fund Managers

This post addresses the unique impact data reporting challenges faced by the private infrastructure investment market. Organized in a ‘capital stack’ that typically leads from asset to fund managers (i.e., general partners or “GPs”) to fund-of-funds managers to limited partners (“LPs”) and eventually capital owners, the investment market is

Just Climate Investing: Pathways to Sustainable Value Creation

Proof hosted the second part in the clean energy webinar series to provide businesses and investors with practical guidance on holistically measuring both the social and environmental impact of clean energy investments through the lens of achieving both impact and financial returns. In the first webinar, we highlighted the importance

Four Ways to Profit from your ESG Strategy

ESG outperforms the market. According to the the World Economic Forum companies that embed effective ESG practices generate 20 percent high profitability on average. It used to be the case that profit and social good were considered to be at adds. However, evidence is quickly mounting that businesses that prioritize

Performance-Based Investing

How can sustainable investors further incentivize their portfolio companies to report robust sustainability data and improve their performance on material ESG and impact metrics? Performance-based investing is the next evolution of the sustainable investing market, and robust, verified data is critical to allow investors to incentivize positive results on quantitative