In this New Private Markets article, author Snehal Shah interviews GIIN president Sapna Shah on how climate solutions investing will be the primary goal of the GIIN's multi-year strategic plan under her presidency. She also interviews GIIN CEO and Co-founder Amit Bouri, who explains, "'It's a critical time to accelerate the flow of some of these new technologies and solutions. A lot of these technologies and solutions will need to be operational at scale by 2030 ..read more

In this Op-ed published by ImpactAlpha, GIIN’s Co-founder and CEO Amit Bouri explores the concept of collective leadership. Bouri points out that “we cannot just focus on our individual pieces of the puzzle; instead, we must work collaboratively to understand the broader picture fully" and that "by directing our collective efforts to build meaningful industry infrastructure, we can create a ‘race to the top’ for impact performance and crowd in new investors ..read more

In this Impact Investor article, author Ian Lewis discusses the partnership between the GIIN and the CIIP, and the resulting educational initiative designed to increase access to impact investing education globally. The author details the GIIN's participation in this collaboration, writing, “The Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) and the Singapore-based Centre for Impact Investing and Practices (CIIP) are collaborating on an initiative to improve the availability and depth of education available to impact investing professionals globally.  ..read more

In this article from NordSIP, author Felipe Albuquerque discusses in more depth the purpose and scope of the launch of an educational initiative between the GIIN and the Centre for Impact Investing and Practices (CIIP), a result of their new partnership. He describes the GIIN's role in bringing this initiative to life, writing that, "The CIIP has awarded a grant by the GIIN to fund and develop a foundational impact investing educational program for investment professionals, including CIOs, fund managers, portfolio managers and analysts. The GIIN will also develop educational material aimed at ..read more

In this article from ImpactAlpha, authors David Bank and Jessica Pothering discuss the growing need to balance establishing clear impact goals with evaluating risk and returns in global financial markets, from Denmark to Tokyo. They reference the GIIN's Co-founder and CEO Amit Bouri in his keynote speech at the 2023 GIIN Impact Forum in Denmark, writing that, "Impact investors who came to Copenhagen to raise funds, pursue partnerships and connect with colleagues were anything but glum. As Bouri said, 'Navigating these challenges requires this unique duality: The ambition to envision and lead m ..read more

In this article from Next Billion, authors Chris Wayne and Coco Lim discuss the need to rethink the traditional concept of scale in agribusiness, especially in the context of impact investing, and how agribusiness can reach smallholders. They reference the GIIN's impact performance benchmark tool IRIS+, writing that, "these conversations and our related experience show that the average agribusiness can expect to reach between 5,000 and 10,000 smallholders. The GIIN’s impact performance benchmark for agriculture, available through IRIS+, backs this up: Across investors who reported, the average ..read more

In this Times of India article, authors Akshay Panth and Anjana Seshadri discuss the opportunity for impact investing in India. Panth and Seshadri mention the Global Impact Investing Networks' (GIIN) Sizing the Impact Investing Market 2022 report which estimates the size of the worldwide impact investing market to be USD 1.164 trillion ..read more

In this South China Morning Post article, author Eric Ng discusses the “Navigating the future of Impact Investing in Asia” event co-hosted by the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) and Hong Kong’s Financial Services Development Council (FSDC). Ng writes, “Financing flows into emerging markets in Asia for meeting climate change and other social challenges are far from enough, and potential investors should not wait because both financial and social objectives can be achieved, an impact investing conference has heard ..read more

In this Forbes article, author Mazyar Mortazavi discusses the momentum behind the impact investing movement. Mortazavi mentions the Global Impact Investing Network’s (GIIN) writing, “In a 2020 survey by the GIIN, 88% of impact investors said their investments were either meeting or exceeding their financial expectations ..read more

In this article, PV Europe discusses the opportunity for impact investing to help mitigate the climate crisis. PV Europe mentions the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) writing, "The year 2022 was a milestone for impact investing. According to the GIIN, impact assets under management crossed the threshold for the first time ..read more