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ESG Is Not Impact Investing and Impact Investing Is Not ESG

Stanford Social Innovation

If you find yourself using the terms ESG and impact investing interchangeably, you’re not alone. This group would go on to found the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) , the leading network of practitioners promoting the infrastructure, research, and education around impact investing.

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CSRHub Co-Founder Cynthia Figge To Speak at Future in Review 2025

3BL Media

CSRHub’s business intelligence system measures the ESG business impact that drives corporate and investor sustainability decisions. Founded in 2007, CSRHub covers 58,000+ public and private companies, and provides ESG performance scores on over 38,833 companies from 134 industries in 156 countries.

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Reset Connect Showcases Net Zero Business Solutions at London Climate Action Week

3BL Media

Event speakers included Tanya Steele (CEO of WWF UK), Cliff Prior (CEO of The Global Steering Group for Impact Investment), Professor Paul Minks (BEIS Chief Scientific Adviser) and Nina Seega (Research Director for Sustainable Finance, Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership). About Acre.

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10 SSIR Stories on Impact Investing’s Next Phase

Stanford Social Innovation

By SSIR Editors Since the term was coined in 2007, the impact investing field has grown exponentially, with $1.164 trillion in assets under management globally today. Questions remain about whether impact investing can achieve market-rate returns while also driving meaningful, systems-level social change.

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Strengthening the Front Lines in the Fight Against Climate Change: A Call for Investment in Coastal Communities’ Resilience

James Militzer

It requires investment, not just in projects or businesses, but also in education, infrastructure, technology and social systems. Blue-green resilience investments represent one emerging approach to achieving these overlapping goals.

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Southern Company: 2024 Year in Review

3BL Media

As part of this goal, the company is aiming to reach a 50 percent reduction in GHG emissions from 2007 levels by 2030. Through our foundations and corporate giving, we invested over $90 million in grants, sponsorships and impact investments across our territories in 2023.

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M&G Fuels Impact M&A Trend

Chris Hall

UK manager’s Swiss acquisition strengthens impact investing ambitions. London-based M&G has become the latest large investment group to burnish its sustainable investment credentials by taking a position in a specialist impact investment firm. billion of assets under management.