Achieving the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals requires market participants to understand and improve their sustainability impacts. This is impact management. Coherent standards and guidance are key to mainstreaming impact management, as well as ongoing research and development to address gaps.
About the Platform
The Impact Management Platform is a collaboration between leading providers of public good standards, frameworks, tools, and guidance for managing sustainability impacts (see Platform Partners below). Through the Platform, initiatives work together to identify opportunities to consolidate existing sustainability resources, collectively address gaps, and coordinate with policymakers and regulators to support the mainstreaming of impact management.
“Mainstreaming impact management across business and finance is critical for achieving the SDGs and essential to future-proofing business. UNEP FI is delighted to be joining forces with its peers to work towards a complete and coherent system of norms and resources for impact management” – Eric Usher, Head, UNEP FI
Platform Resources & Deliverables
The Impact Management Platform Partners have released the following content together:
- An overview of the Actions of Impact Management.
- A thought piece on the impact, risk and materiality.
- A searchable Resource List of the Partners’ standards and guidance.
- Research papers on Industry Classifications and on Sustainability Topic Nomenclature.
Going forward the Platform Partners will maintain and enrich the web content based on user feedback. They will also be working together to drive coordination and interoperability between their standards, guidance and tools, as well as to address gaps. The ultimate aim of the Partners is to work towards a complete and coherent system of norms and resources for impact management.
Platform Partners
The Platform Partners comprise of B Lab, Capitals Coalition, CDP, Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), GSG Impact, the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC), International Foundation for Valuing Impacts (IFVI), International Standards Organisation (ISO), Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), Social Value International (SVI), Task Force on Inequality and Social-related Financial Disclosure (TISFD), Task for Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD), United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA), UN Development Programme (UNDP), UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI), UN Global Compact (UNGC) and World Benchmarking Alliance (WBA). The European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG) and the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) are Observers to the Platform.