Next Normal Now: Re-Imagining Capitalism for Our Future | Regeneration

In this Alliance Magazine article, Amit Bouri, CEO and co-founder of the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) considers the state of impact investing today. Bouri highlights the path he hopes the impact investing industry takes moving forward writing that, “The other path — the one the industry needs to aim for — is a leap forward. On this path, impact investors succeed in creating a better future for all. The industry would help to fill the financing gaps for the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Climate Accords. As investor demand increases, all investments would be expected to account for their social and environmental impact, alongside their financial return. In this second possibility, impact investors would help establish an entirely new way of doing business, contributing to a sustainable, inclusive, and regenerative system.” 

In this Social Investor Magazine article, Amit Bouri, CEO and co-founder of the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) reflects on the history and growth of impact investing. Bouri writes, “Ultimately, I am hopeful that the pandemic will turn out to be a portal toward what I’m calling the ‘next normal.’ The Indian author Arundhati Roy penned a powerful essay about this last year, describing the pandemic as ‘a portal, a gateway between one world and the next.’ In the ‘next normal’ we will see government, philanthropy, and the business and financial sectors all reoriented toward building an impact economy — one in which social and environmental impact will take its rightful place alongside financial returns. Impact investors will play a critical role in paving the way to a more inclusive and sustainable future.”

In this Pioneers Post article, the second released in a series in partnership with the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), Vanessa Bartram, Managing Partner of Zora Ventures, reflects on how redemption and covenant guide her as an impact investor. Bartram writes, “As we seek this minute yet measurable change, we are reminded that this is a long journey that requires many partners, each of us playing a small but necessary role. The Global Impact Investing Network’s dedication to convening, educating, and strengthening impact investors provides the necessary infrastructure and reassurance that, working in concert, we are slowly bringing the world to a more perfect state.”

In this Pioneers Post article, the first in a series in partnership with the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), Iqbal Khan, CEO of Fajr Capital, reflects on how far faith-based investing has come. Speaking to the evolution of the faith-based investment community, Khan highlights the importance of faith groups joining forces to collaborate and allocate capital. Khan writes, “The Global Impact Investing Network’s Faith-Based Investors Hub, for example, is a unique platform for action that brings together investors from Christian, Jewish, and Islamic traditions to explore how faith-based investors can collaborate to deepen the impact potential of their investment portfolios and advance global development agendas, such as the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Paris Climate Agreement.”

In this Luma Institute blog post, Bill Lucas explores the Global Impact Investing Network’s (GIIN), IRIS+ System. Lucas writes, “In May of 2021, the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) revised their recommendations for measuring, managing, and optimizing social and environmental impact. Their approach, known as the IRIS+ System, features a thematic framework based on years of rigorous research. The system provides a common language for describing, assessing, communicating, and comparing impact performance. The framework includes a harmonized list of Strategic Goals organized by 28 themes within 17 categories.”

In this Forbes article, Felicia Jackson discusses the IPCC’s latest climate change findings and the importance of holding investors and corporations accountable in terms of climate action and sustainability. Amit Bouri, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) says, “The IPCC report is clear: our planet and our way of living will suffer irreversible damage unless we make massive changes in our economy. Investors have an important opportunity to accelerate this urgently-needed climate transition – not just by decarbonizing their portfolios, but also by investing in climate solutions. Technology- and nature-based solutions will be critical to changing the current trajectory of climate change.”

In this Forbes article, Stephen Ibaraki reports on the Global Impact Investing Network’s (GIIN) new strategic partnership with the Young Presidents Organization (YPO). Quoting YPO’s announcement, Ibaraki highlights that, “Through this agreement, GIIN will collaborate with YPO to create customized learning events for YPO members, utilizing the resources, platforms and tools available through GIIN, including IRIS+, a system for measuring and managing impact. These events will support YPO’s Impact Investing Initiative (Y3i) to help YPO members use business as a force for good and create measurable impact.”

In this Free Press Journal article, Jescilia Karayamparambil sits down with Rachel Bass, Senior Manager of Research at the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), to discuss impact investors continued support for Indian businesses throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. The article reads, “Bass stated the significance of trust and empathy; urgency among investors about their responsibility on social and environmental effects; partnership; creative approach; and flexibility in investment structure and investment management are embedded in impact investing due to COVID. Investor communities hope to emerge out of a new normal and not an old normal through such alterations.”

In this Pioneers Post article, Laura Joffre reports on the sixteen organizations that received a total of $3.3m in grants from the Tipping Point Fund on Impact Investing (TPF). Joffre highlights, “The grantees include independent impact verification provider BlueMark, the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), and B Lab, the non-profit behind the B Corp accreditation. The money will fund their research and initiatives to improve impact data availability, metrics and measurement, which TPF says is crucial to developing the impact market.”

In this Forbes article, Francois Botha explains how new investment technology players are beginning to offer solutions that start with ESG data and are providing deeper insights into the possible outcomes of target investments. Botha goes on to demonstrate how these new players can assist family offices making decisions and measuring impact, citing the research brief from the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) focusing on Institutional Asset Owners: Approaches to setting social and environmental goals.