Archive

  • Impact accounting framework released - with $236 per tonne cost of carbon

    23 February 2024

    The International Foundation for Valuing Impacts has published two draft methodologies - on greenhouse gas emissions and adequate wages. Michael Hurley speaks with Daniel Osusky

  • First instalment of international 'impact accounting' methodology published

    17 August 2023
  • Natural capital accounting report published

    25 October 2022
  • 'Impact accounting' bodies launch survey of existing approaches

    07 January 2022

    The Value Balancing Alliance (VBA) and Impact-Weighted Accounts initiative (IWAI) at Harvard Business School have asked organisations to explain how they 'value' their positive and negative social and environmental impacts.

  • 11 companies pilot VBA impact methodology

    12 May 2021
  • WEF, Value Balancing Alliance to collaborate on sustainability metrics

    12 April 2021

    The World Economic Forum and the Value Balancing Alliance have committed to work together to develop 'stakeholder capitalism' and sustainability metrics for companies.

  • 'Impact monetisation' model unveiled by Value Balancing Alliance

    12 February 2021

    A methodology for monetising the impact of companies on society and the environment has been published by an alliance of the world's largest corporates.

  • Can impact be the guiding star for corporates?

    21 September 2020

    The Value Balancing Alliance's methodologies for assessing companies' net impact will define the future of corporate decision making, Christian Heller tells Michael Hurley

  • The Future of ESG Data conference: Don't separate impact from sustainability data

    15 September 2020

    Third-party data providers should make impact a part of their core sustainability data offering to help investors assess the net impact of their investments, UBS's Christopher Greenwald has said.