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Impact Data to Mobilize Investment in Energy Transition

This is the second article in a series on the use of exponential technologies to track and verify environmental and social outputs in inclusive energy transition. In the introduction to this Energy Series, we discussed how non-financial KPIs such as societal and environmental outputs packaged as impact data, can attract

The Era of Impact Transparency Has Begun

Society is demanding that companies, both public and private, serve a social purpose. To prosper over time, every company must not only deliver financial performance, but also show how it makes a positive contribution to society. Companies must benefit all of their stakeholders, including shareholders, employees, customers, and the communities

ESG 2.0: Data-driven Impact Measurements that matter

When we started our sustainable investing journey in 2008, it was on the back of visiting the SKOLL World Forum and realizing that a significant amount of the world’s problems can be solved by innovative and holistic business solutions. The biggest challenge was (and continues to be) how do

Sink or Swim: Prioritize Impact or Watch Your Business Drown

How impact investors can avoid “impact washing” and not get left behind. “We are seeing dramatic changes in behaviour, which will change the behaviour of companies. The younger generation are not interested in buying products that can do harm and they are changing their choices, and investors have become aware

Trust Economics — How Smart Businesses are Using Trust to Gain an Edge over Competition

The global operating system on which all modern businesses run is built on trust. Always has been, always will be. However, the way businesses have been building (and signaling) trust has changed significantly over the years. Trust Level 1: Good Reputation For entire centuries, trust has been an extension of

In an age of isolation, connection means everything

For residents living in the world’s rural last mile, this reality is painfully familiar. These are difficult times. COVID-19 has caused fear, anxiety, and loneliness to creep in on our attempts to maintain some sort of normalcy and routine. We have to plan to access critical resources, like food,

Impact Investing: The Only Sustainable “Values-Based” Investing

As COVID-19 sweeps through the world, the most important area to reflect upon is: How do we move forward? It is safe to say that traditional investment strategies aren’t holding their own against an external perpetrator such as a pandemic sweeping across the globe. The markets have crashed and