Global Impact Investing Network Report: Impact Investing Performance on Climate Change & Quality Job Investments
10th December 2021 | Hong Kong
The Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), one of the earliest global network of impact investing founded in 2009 with over 20,000 impact investors & market stakeholders, has released 2 reports on impact performance report on Climate Change Mitigation Investments and Quality Jobs investments. Both reports titled under Understanding Impact Performance, with the key findings including decreased carbon emissions of -6.4% against annual target to decrease carbon emissions by -7.6%, and an 18% annual average increase in number of full-time staff receiving training, where job skills are critical for them for improved career opportunities. The reports, which represent the third instalment of the GIIN’s Understanding Impact Performance series, also aim to enable consistent, clear impact measurement, management, and reporting, and pave the way for industry infrastructure, including impact performance benchmarks. The Understanding Impact Performance series explores whether investment capital can generate significant real-world impact, both in terms of scale and effectiveness, in addition to financial returns. View: GIIN Report
“ Impact Investing Performance on Climate Change and Quality Job Investments “
Climate Change Mitigation Investments
Investees in this sample decreased their emissions by 6.4% per year, marking significant progress among a sample of impact investments. However, a gap remains to achieving the target -7.6% annual decrease in emissions required to limit warming to 1.5°C in alignment with IPCC recommendations, further underscoring the need for further progress among impact investors in avoiding climate catastrophe. Investments focused on nature-based solutions sequestered 3.2 million metric tons of emissions on average each year, reflecting significant real-world impact through forestry and agriculture impact investments.
Quality jobs Investments
Skill-building trainings or mentorship opportunities at investee organizations have grown over time, with an 18% annual average increase in the number of full-time permanent staff receiving trainings; improvement in job skills is critical to improved career progression opportunities. The gender wage equity ratio was 0.95 across the full sample, and 1.01 among the subset of investees with anti-discrimination and anti-harassment policies. Once adjusted for differences in work and job characteristics, the gender wage gap sits at 0.98. Companies receiving impact investment with anti-discrimination and anti-harassment policies in place outperform the global average, showing the potential impact of these policies.
Amit Bouri, Co-Founder and CEO of the GIIN (Global Impact Investing Network):
“If we are going to move investment capital at the scale needed for the environmental and social crises of our time, it is essential that we have a sophisticated understanding of impact performance. Aspirations and anecdotes alone are not going to be sufficient; we need markets to focus on real-world outcomes for people and planet.
The goal of this research is to enable investors to drive toward greater progress in tackling our climate crisis and addressing inequity. To achieve that progress, the GIIN continues to push for more rigorous industry-wide analytics and data-sharing to provide investors with the tools necessary to measure, manage, and optimize impact. Through this work, and the IRIS+ system, our aim is to build a world where impact becomes a part of all investing.”
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About the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN)
The Global Impact Investing Network is the global champion of impact investing, dedicated to increasing its scale and effectiveness around the world. Impact investments are investments made with the intention to generate positive, measurable social and environmental impact alongside a financial return.
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