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Double Materiality Benchmarking: Beyond ESG Ratings

Ratings are a ubiquitous part of the Information Age. Need to figure out where to go to dinner? You can use Google Reviews. Need to buy a car? You can check Consumer Reports. Need to find a doctor? You can use HealthGrades. Ratings are designed to distill large amounts of

4 Steps to an Effective ESG+I Materiality Assessment

Materiality assessments are increasingly being utilized to gather stakeholder input to assess which social and environmental issues the organization should focus on addressing. Materiality assessments allow an organization to engage its community, ultimately establishing a data-driven foundation for its ESG+I measurement program. What is Materiality Assessment? A materiality assessment

How CFOs Can Use Impact Performance Data to Create Financial Returns

ESG and impact data can completely transform how companies raise capital, attract new revenue streams, build customer loyalty, and create a more sustainable business. In fact, a recent report from Accenture/WEF shows that companies that embed effective environmental, social, and governance (ESG) practices into their operations generate more than

Impact Tech: Emerging Technologies That Drive Social and Environmental Sustainability

With the heightened attention on climate change pressuring private and public sectors to take action, tech stakeholders are rising up to the task. As Laura Bonaventura of MUUS Asset Management shared, 2021 saw 51% more deal investments in “CleanTech”. This, she explained at the second Proof clean energy webinar, underscores

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

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