“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
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.
Platform Resources
New Content: Impact Management in context
IMP Partners offer their joint perspective of how Impact Management relates to other sustainability-related concepts and practices such as ESG integration, due diligence or impact investing, helping practitioners better understand how these connect and complement one another. Read more here.
The Actions of Impact Management
This interactive resource explains the core steps and components of impact management, from impact identification to assessment, and measurement all the way through to reporting. Read more here.
Imperative for Impact Management: Impact, Risk & Materiality
This thought piece clarifies the relationship between impacts, risk and materiality and articulates the importance of a more comprehensive approach to managing impacts. Browse the updated Key Terms & Context section of the Platform website and discover the flagship Thought Piece of the Platform.
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. See more IMP updates.
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), World Benchmarking Alliance (WBA) and World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD). The European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG) and the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) are Observers to the Platform.