IMPACT Awards 2021

In the past year, Calvert Research and Management's impact engagement efforts have involved work focusing on diversity, climate change and protecting employees...

Kempen's UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) focused fund, Global Impact Pool (GIP), grew its assets under management to €117.85 million...

Managed by Dutch corporation Triodos Bank, Triodos Investment Management's mission is to generate healthy financial returns while investing only in companies that contribute to a sustainable society

Sustainalytics scooped the impact research award for its flagship report providing a deep dive into the circular food economy

Chronos Sustainability's team of around 20 specialist consultants has initiated, catalysed, or led a series of major global interventions...

German family office and investment advisory firm Wermuth Asset Management was a key driver behind the creation of a 'climate endowment'...

Domini Impact Investment's Impact Bond Fund aims to increase access to affordable and quality housing, health care, education, jobs,...

Managed by Dutch asset manager Triodos Investment Management, Triodos Pioneer Impact Fund aims to generate positive environmental and social impact, coupled with healthy financial returns...

The Schroder BSC Social Impact Trust (SBSI) secured the nod for the multi-asset fund of the year after being praised by one judge for its approach to delivering high impact...

The NN-FMO Emerging Markets Loans Fund has invested over $400 million in 53 participation loans,...

Tikehau Capital's T2 Energy Transition Fund closed earlier this year at more than €1 billion ($1.2 billion), above its initial target...

The Portfolio Alignment Team (PAT) is a collaborative initiative of nine financial institutions aiming to bring convergence and transparency to...

In 2020, BTG Pactual launched its Sustainable & Impact Investing division to consolidate it as a hub to connect global investors to local environmental, social and governance (ESG) and impact investing opportunities in Latin America

This Conservation International (CI) led initiative delivered investment capital in the form of loans to the Maasai Mara Conservancies in Kenya in a time of crisis...

In 2020, IDB Invest, the investment arm of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Group, provided a blended finance loan of up to $3.1 million to Colombian cacay tree producer Agrocacay...

Water Unite Impact (WUI) is an investment fund that aims to finance water, sanitation and plastics recycling enterprises...

The Eurasian Development Bank (EDB) invested $19 million for the construction and operation of street lighting networks in the Kazakhstan city of Atyrau

In March, the International Finance Corporation (IFC) led a $25 million fundraising for the Savannah Fund...

The £420 million ($585 million) Charging Infrastructure Investment Fund (CIIF) is tackling the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the UK...

Patron Capital's Women in Safe Homes fund secured the award after being praised by one judge for its "highly innovative...

North Sky Capital invested $18 million to fund the development and construction of Project Golden Bear, a new wastewater methane-to-renewable natural gas...

Launching a community share offer with the UK-based non-profit organisation Ethex last year...

AXA Investment Managers (IM) achieved three separate wins in the Impact Awards this year, making it the only company to do so

Storelectic secured the Impact initiative of the year award for Europe for its pilot 'green' Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES) project in the UK...

The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank's (AIIB) Sustainable Capital Markets Initiative (SCMI) aims to drive green and sustainable capital markets across the continent

Clarity AI's environmental and social impact data platform currently has a client network representing in excess of $10 trillion in assets...

In 2020, IDB Invest, a member of the IDB Group, and the International Finance Corporation...

Ecofin invested $20 million in PureCycle Technologies via its Sustainable and Social Impact Term Fund.

Lowering Emission by Accelerating Forest finance (LEAF) Coalition is looking to mobilise $1 billion to protect tropical forests...

Despite the challenges of Covid-19, Nedbank Corporate and Investment Banking (CIB) was able to secure three significant deals across housing, renewable energy and the UN's Sustainable Development Goals...

WaterEquity has identified an $18 billion market demand from low-income families for microcredit loans...

Brunel Pension Partnership launched several funds it says focus on creating positive impact

McDermott Will & Emery played a vital role over the last year in structuring one of the largest cross border impact finance mechanisms...

Cyan's provision of debt funding aims to minimise the dilution for young companies'

Planet Tracker aims to expose the financial and environmental risks created in diverse supply chains across the world by highlighting unsustainable industrial practices...

Emily Chew has overseen pioneering ESG research, developed engagement strategies and led teams through ESG-related regulatory changes

Sail Ventures named Private debt provider of the year for the second year in a row

Canadian insurance provider The Co-operators claims it is driven "to catalyse impact investing across the country".

Working with a variety of investment managers across sustainable and impact investing approaches...

Bethnal Green Ventures (BGV) invests in founders that use technology to create positive impact at scale

Virginia Wasikowska, a portfolio manager in commercial real estate, seeks to go the extra mile to examine the soft factors behind investment deals