GSG Impact

📢 Announcing our new CEO – Elizabeth Boggs Davidsen! Elizabeth Boggs Davidsen has been appointed CEO of GSG Impact. She takes up the role from 7th October. Elizabeth currently leads the Office of Development Policy at the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC). Welcoming Elizabeth Boggs Davidsen’s appointment, Rt. Hon. Nick Hurd, Chair, GSG Impact said: ❝ Elizabeth is a widely recognised impact leader with a strong track record of success. I am delighted she has agreed to take on the role of CEO. She already knows and understands GSG Impact, and our unique, global community of national partners, and will hit the ground running. We urgently need more investment and innovation to flow in support of development and climate goals. To achieve this impact needs to be a core factor in every investment decision. That is why GSG Impact and our wider partnership exists. We are all very excited to work with Elizabeth and move closer to achieving those goals.” Elizabeth Boggs Davison, Incoming CEO, GSG Impact said: ❝ I’m delighted to have the opportunity to lead GSG Impact. From its earliest days, and foundation by Sir Ronald Cohen, I’ve been an admirer of its pioneering work. To achieve the SDGs and climate goals, we have to create the conditions for capital to flow where it can demonstrate the most impact. Across over 50 countries the GSG Impact Partnership is working to do just that. I am excited to bring my experience and to work with our National Partners to accelerate that process.“ Ibukun Awosika, Juan Bernal Aranda, Michele Giddens, cyrille langendorff, Chul Woo Moon, Shannon Music, Tracy Palandjian, Maria Laura Tinelli, Impact Investing Australia, NAB Bangladesh, Impact Finance Belgium, Aliança pelo Impacto, Plataforma de Inversión de Impacto Centroamericana (PiiC), GSG NAB Chile - Inversión de Impacto, NAB Colombia, FAIR - Label Finansol, Bundesinitiative Impact Investing, Impact Investing Ghana, Hellenic Impact Investing Network, Impact Investors Council (IIC), The Israeli Forum for Impact Economy, Social Impact Agenda per l'Italia - GSG Impact Partner, GSG Impact JAPAN, Alianza por la Inversión de Impacto México [AIIMx] *GSG National Partner, Netherlands Advisory Board on Impact Investing, Impact Investing Network, Impact Investors Foundation IIF, NorNAB - Norwegian National Advisory Board for Impact Investing, Aliados de Impacto-NAB Perú, maze impact, Impact Investing SA, SpainNAB, The Swedish National Advisory Board for Impact Investing, TIFI - Thailand Investing for Impact, Etki Yatırımı Danışma Kurulu "EYDK" - Impact Investing Advisory Board, Türkiye NAB, Impact Investing Institute #Leadership #ImpactInvesting #SustainableDevelopment  #ImpactEconomy

Join the 2024 African Venture Philanthropy Alliance (AVPA) Conference from 4-6 November 2024 in Nairobi, Kenya. The conference will bring together key players across Africa’s impact 🌎 ecosystem—capital providers, policymakers, and entrepreneurs—to drive sustainable growth across the continent. 📍 4-6 November 2024, Nairobi, Kenya Register 🔗 https://lnkd.in/dPX84uES 🔑 Why attend? ⮕ Create strategic partnerships to address Africa’s challenges and drive growth ⮕ Impact Measurement and Management Masterclass — facilitated by Karim Harji — learn how to accurately measure your initiatives' social and environmental impact, manage risks, and effectively communicate them. ⮕ Engage with ecosystem builders and policymakers on standardising, legislating and advancing social investment. Speakers: 🔸Aakif Merchant, Convergence Blended Finance 🔸Chris Maranga, Acumen 🔸Eva Jennifer Abel, Oryx Impact 🔸Frank Aswani, AVPA 🔸Gayle Peterson, pfc Social Impact Advisors, llc 🔸Karim Harji, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford 🔸Urmi Sengupta, MacArthur Foundation 🔸William Asiko, The Rockefeller Foundation #CatalyseAfrica #ImpactInvesting #Africa #impacteconomy

🔑 "Consistency is key for Climate Action." For #ClimateWeekNYC, we asked GSG Impact’s Trustees, "What do politicians 🏛️ and policymakers need to do to enable the private sector to invest more in addressing climate change ?" cyrille langendorff, Investment Director at Phitrust, stresses the need for a long-term and consistent approach to provide investors with the certainty they need to deploy capital 💰. #ClimateAction #policymakers #privatesector #impactinvesting

"The 5 Ws of Impact Investing": the latest position paper by the European Impact Investing Consortium ⬇️ A new position 📚 paper from the European Impact Investing Consortium (Impact Europe, GSG Impact, Hellenic Impact Investing Network, Impact Finance Belgium, Impact Investing Institute, maze impact, Netherlands Advisory Board on Impact Investing, Social Impact Agenda per l'Italia - GSG Impact Partner, SpainNAB, FAIR - Label Finansol, Esade, and Politecnico di Milano) introduces the 5 Ws of Impact Investing—a comprehensive framework designed to guide 🧭, harmonise, and elevate impact measurement across Europe. 🇪🇺 Here’s the breakdown: 1️⃣ Why? Building the foundations 2️⃣ What? The consensus result 3️⃣ Who? Financial Operators Taxonomy  4️⃣ Where? The Geographical Scope 5️⃣ When? Future Roadmap 🧑🏽💻 Join the webinar on 7th October to learn more: ttps://lnkd.in/eqHSmQVC Read the paper 👇 #impactinvesting #europe #taxonomy #impactmeasurement

📶 Scaling green investments for climate goals For #ClimateWeekNYC, we explored with our ambassadors the financial instruments and asset classes best suited to achieving the climate goals. Clara Barby, Senior Partner at Just Climate, stressed the importance of using the highest positive climate impact as an 💸 investment lens: ❝ For example, industrial climate solutions 🧩, like green steel, can have fast growth business models with upside suited to private equity but some of the downside protection features of infrastructure. The same is true of natural climate solutions: while agriculture and forestry have typically been the domain of real assets teams, products and services that can decarbonise how we use land 🌱, such as bio inputs, may be better suited to private equity allocations. Such opportunities – and the strategic asset allocation discussions they unlock 🔓 with asset owners - would be missed if we did not use an impact lens. Doing so can channel capital to climate solutions with the potential to bend the global 🌐 emissions curve and address systematic risk facing portfolios.” #ClimateAction  #climatesolutions #GreenInvestments #assetowners

Explore how to attract investor interest in impact investing ’ 🔔 with Krisztina Tora at a Building Bridges webinar. 📅 October 10th, 2024 │ 16:00-17:00 CET (online) Register ➡️ https://lnkd.in/dC-XVgdH The webinar "Impact Lens Investing - Grabbing the Investor's Attention" 🚩 will cover the past and future of impact investing, and how to put it on investors’ 📈💸 radars. This webinar is the first of three webinars that make up the Constructing Change Webinar Series hosted by Building Bridges 2024 with the support of experts from Event Partners: UBS, Pictet, Lombard Odier, InTent and Edmond de Rothschild. Krisztina will be joined by industry leaders including: 🔹Jennifer (Hing yee) Boscardin-Ching, Pictet Asset Management 🔹Guillaume Chapuis, Lombard Odier Investment Managers 🔹Sandra Halilovic, Acumen 🔹moderated by Kostis A. Tselenis, swiss impact office and Hellenic Impact Investing Network #impactinvesting #SustainableFinance #Investors #ImpactEconomy

❌ "No more lip service – it's time for action."🎯 For this year’s #ClimateWeekNYC, we asked GSG Impact’s Trustees and Ambassadors: What are the most significant 🚧 barriers businesses face in aligning with climate goals, and how can they be overcome? Chul Woo Moon, Professor at Sungkyunkwan University, highlights the most pressing challenges facing Korea's just transition: the asymmetry in readiness between large conglomerates and SMEs within the value chain. #climategoals #justtransition #smes #impactinvesting

⚖️🌍 "Climate change won’t be addressed without justice and equity" For #ClimateWeekNYC, we asked GSG Impact’s Ambassadors, what can policy makers do for the private sector to invest more, and what leadership can the private sector provide, to address climate change? This is what Rosemary Addis, Founding Managing Partner at Mondiale Impact, said: ❝ Clear policy can give direction 🧭 and confidence and its absence has effects on the behaviour of people, organisations and markets. Governments can set the baseline for good reporting and this is most powerful when coupled with catalytic policy, and spending, to activate innovation and mobilise private capital. We need 🚨 governments and leaders who, more than ever, will put the longer term needs and well-being of people, the citizens who elected them, and the planet and ecological systems ahead of short term cycles and vested interests. The way forward is not ❌ a contest between public and private, profit driven or social good; much depends on leadership and relationships between the different sectors. The stakes may never have been higher for us to place business and market actors as key collaborators 🔑🫱🏼🫲🏾 in delivering and expanding social and economic value. We need to develop a generation of leaders and skilled people in task focused collaboration to build what’s needed, chart the course, pilot and navigate toward the future we want. Business as usual has a strong gravitational pull; to reach escape velocity 🚀 toward effective climate action, we need to harness the resources available to us to solve our biggest problems and make that a priority, including how we allocate capital. We know that climate change and associated risks across food, energy, water and the economy will not be addressed without justice and equity ⚖️. The impact has a clear role to play in helping others understand the interconnectedness of the issues, navigate complexity 🔀, demonstrate approaches that develop social licence and help others anticipate and avoid community backlash.” #SocialEquity #ClimateAction #climatesolutions #SustainableFinance

This week marks official launch 🚀 of the Taskforce on Inequality and Social-related Financial Disclosures (TISFD), a global initiative to develop and deliver recommendations and guidance for businesses and financial 📊 institutions to understand and report on impacts, dependencies, risks, and opportunities related to people. As one of the Founding Partners of the TISFD, we are excited to celebrate this milestone 🎯 and look forward to working with colleagues across business, finance, labour and civil society to better integrate social and inequality issues into decision-making. For more information, read the press release (link in the comments 👇) #SocialImpact #SustainableFinance #ImpactInvesting #inequality

Despite the $4 trillion in total AUM for funds 💵 dedicated to emerging markets across all asset classes in 2023, only 15-20% of that capital is directed toward impact investments. How can investor concerns about risk, volatility, and returns be addressed? 🤔 🗣️ At IPEM Paris 2024 last week, Krisztina Tora, joined a panel about "The promise of impact in emerging markets" with Nicolas CELIER (Ring Capital),  Victoria Miles (ImpactA Global) and Radhika Shroff (Nuveen, a TIAA company) to challenge these myths and highlight the opportunities EMs offer. Insights: 💼 Market-rate returns: Panellists with three very different investment strategies and target geographies demonstrated that it is possible to achieve market-rate returns. Example 👉 Annapurna Finance Pvt. Ltd., backed by Nuveen, supports 3 million women entrepreneurs in India and has doubled in size since 2021. Its work on solar financing and agrifarming products is a great example of how impact investments can also drive climate resilience. Solutions💡to attract investors: 1️⃣ Create great exits from the get-go, and promote those successful exits more widely. 2️⃣ Explain your approach to managing each risk explicitly to LPs or co-investors, based on your track record. Local teams with relevant experience on the ground are very helpful. 3️⃣ Share data that highlights the opportunities that exist in EMs. While EM returns may be more volatile, they offer a risk premium, and historical data for debt and equity shows competitive returns compared to developed markets. It’s time to rethink the potential of emerging markets: EMs offer both impactful investment opportunities and competitive returns. Thanks to Antoine Colson, Vera Cunha Filipe. #ImpactInvesting #EmergingMarkets #PrivateEquity #SustainableFinance