Building beyond an ESG baseline to invest with an impact lens

In this ImpactAlpha author Amit Bouri, CEO and Co-Founder of the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), reflects on the importance of building beyond the ESG baseline and demonstrating how to successfully invest with an impact lens. Bouri writes, “Like the G7 Taskforce, the GIIN envisions a future in which impact is integrated into every investment decision alongside risk and return, a future in which transparency about the real-world outcomes of investments is embedded into the culture of finance. Taken together, these transformative changes can help rebuild badly eroded trust and push finance towards a ‘race to the top’ for investing in a better future. But they have potential for even more: They can help us emerge beyond this moment of global poly-crisis into a more sustainable, more inclusive world. Thinking ‘beyond’ may be about the long-term – but for a world in trouble, it can’t come quickly enough.”