Sustainability Community

Hello Community!

I also have this "going back to school feeling" and happy to share that Sustainability Community has been there for a whole year already! A great milestone for me and us to celebrate today!

On September 24th we kick off our 2nd year with member online networking meetup about impact accounting and impact valuation. Impact accounting and valuation allow companies to translate ESG impact into the language of currencty. This holistic approach greatly enhances company's performance analysis. It is also useful for both companies and investors seeking to manage sustainability related risks, opportunities and impact.

I recently met Christian Heller from Value Balancing Alliance who is pioneering this very important work on developing and trialling impact accounting methodology. VBA is a non-for-profit alliance of 30+ multinational companies (including Novartis, BASF, Bosch, Bayer, Anglo-American, BMW Group, Deutsche Bank, UBS etc) coming together to create a way of measuring and comparing the impact of businesses on the society, the economy, and the einvrionment.

I am delighted that Dimitrij Euler Head of Financial Markets from VBA, will join us on Sept 24th as a guest and will share insights on the new emerging impact valuation methodology, explain the use cases and lessons learned by those using that methodology already.

We are also lucky that this meetup is hosted by our community member Ronan Langford from EY who has done a lot of work in this space too. Big thank you to community members Denise Santana and James Kinsbrook for moderating the networking breakout rooms too!

In this community discussoin thread started by Ronan you can learn more about member experience in impact measurement too. 
Don't forget to sign up for this networking meetup using the "events" button on community's page.

Hope to see you there!

also attaching a couple of interesting "reads":

a. IFVI (International foundation for valuing impacts) and VBA (Vale Balancing Alliance) General Methodology 1. Conceptual Freamework for Impact Accounting

b.  The Rise of Impact Accounting white paper from Reuters in partnership with wipro

Attachment(s)

IFVI_VBA_General Methodology 1_A4.pdf   388 KB 1 version

the-rise-of-impact-accounting-whitepaper.pdf   1.27 MB 1 version

Good morning Community!
I hope September brings lots of good fortune your way! I was very glad to meet a few new members and welcome them to the community. Please do post here for any questions or any new ideas you might be having or any challenges around sustainability, impact investing, energy transition. 

I am delighted to announce that together with our sustainability community Champion @David Manuel we are running an exciting webinar on Biodiversity on Oct 16. David will welcome our guest speaker Ruth Murray from Gresham House. Gresham House is a significant investor in Nature and Ruth is managing a nature/environment fund. She will share lots of insights on why they care and how they invest.

Make sure you register for this webinar here 

Hi Everyone,

here's what's coming up for our Community. Make sure your book your places.

September 24th. Exciting online networking meetup on Impact Accounting and Valuation. We have a guest from Value Balancing Alliance Dimitrij Euler. The meetup is hosted by our member Ronan Langford, E&Y Switzerland. Learn on what impact accounting and valuation is and how it can help you translate sustainability/impact actions into the language of currency. We will finish with breakout rooms as usual. Register here.

October 16th. We bring you biodiversity webinar. Ruth Murray, Investmetn Director, Gresham IM will share lots of insights on why they care and how the invest in biodiversity and measure the success. Webinar is hosted by David Manuel. Register here

October 24th. Very much awaited for community pub meet. 2 hours of networking and sharing a drink and vegan/vegetarian food in a nice pub in the City. Book your place here

November 28th. Meet Nico Girod, CTO, ClearBlue Markets for the online networking meetup on Voluntary Carbon Markets. This online meetup is hosted by our champion Jim Totty. Register here