Impact investments are investments made into organisations or enterprises which can have a positive social and environmental impact on society
Solving the world’s biggest social and environmental challenges is going to cost money. Lots of money (as I wrote in my last blog, just achieving SDG 1 is likely to cost $1.4trn a year). So it’s vital that we find new ways of drawing in private capital to supplement the efforts of governments and philanthropy. Over $100trn is currently invested in private wealth accounts globally, mostly without consideration of social and environmental impact. Imagine if we could deploy a sizeable chunk of this capital to support investments that make our world a better place?
The good news is that there are a growing number of private investors who want to do this, either because they want to better align their investments with their values, or because they think it makes financial sense – as a way to find growth in mature markets, or to diversify their portfolio.
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