New evidence changes everything. A principle has come to light that everything has impact, positive or negative. Figuring out which effects and then preventing the negative and increasing the positive drives more positive impact for people and the planet.
This paper highlights the opportunity for growing energy and momentum to drive the next breakthroughs toward positive impact at scale, including achievement of the SDGs. Impact investment, designed to achieve positive impact and measure the results, has impact hardwired into its design and management and has a powerful role to play.
There has been significant progress in growing impact investment and the momentum building has reverberated well beyond assets under management. However, investments that over-emphasise financial return still frame the dominant systems driving local and global economies.
The focus of this paper is to inspire and accelerate progress toward a future where significantly more capital flows to solutions and drives positive impact at scale. In that future, impact is integrated into decision making and performance of investments.