Finance as a
force for good
Impact investments aim to deliver solutions at scale to our world’s biggest issues, optimising risk, return and impact to benefit people and the planet.
It does so by setting specific social and environmental objectives alongside financial ones, and measuring their achievement.
Governments alone cannot address the scale and complexity of our world’s challenges. With an estimated annual financing gap of over $4 trillion USD to achieve the SDGs, it is evident that public money alone will not be enough to deliver on the 2030 Agenda.
However, there is enough private capital to achieve urgent social and climate goals. Impact investments are the best way to redirect capital at scale towards solutions.
Outcome Funds, based on ‘pay for success’ financing models, have gained considerable attention worldwide as vehicles for mobilising new sources of impact capital to address complex social challenges.
Collaborative action and innovation in investment structures can channel capital at scale to where most needed, and create a positive impact on people and planet.
Globally harmonised sustainability standards, alongside impact valuation, and impact transparency for all players are crucial for impact-driven decision-making and the emergence of impact economies.
The role of impact in scaling capital mobilisation to fund slum-upgrading programmes globally.
Most business and investment decisions are still being taken with inadequate consideration of their social and environmental impact. It is becoming increasingly clear to everyone, including investors, that it is not sustainable to keep asking governments and citizens to pay the costs of the negative social and environmental impacts.
Business and finance leaders are seizing the opportunity to measure and optimise for impact.
A guide for Development Finance institutions (DFIs) and all practitioners wanting to increase the flow of capital to SMEs in emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs).
The report offers impact economy ecosystem analysis on impact progress in 34 countries with cross-cutting insights. What's unique is that it offers more than market sizing data; it explains how countries are redesigning for impact through policy and practices, building the infrastructure and incentives for impact economies. This includes tracking government actions, market building, impact capital supply, impact capital demand, and contributions to the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
The GSG Impact Partnership reached a pivotal moment, now spanning 46 countries and covering 65% of the world’s population. Our work in 2024 was centred around (i) advancing impact economies by expanding our community and nurturing ecosystem growth (ii) mobilising private capital at scale, especially in emerging markets, and (iii) enabling greater inclusivity in global sustainability disclosure standards.
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