The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Measuring Impact of Your Portfolios Panel

I was fortunate to moderate a panel at RI Americas on the SDGs and Measuring Portfolio Impact with:

Aniket Shah, Sustainable Development Solutions Network
Emilie Beral, Research Director Vigeo Eiris
Mikael Schvarzman, Market Development Manager Thomson Reuters

With the UN SDGs' rapid growth as a tool for driving sustainable and responsible investing, our panel explored how the SDGs can be translated into a strategy to deploy capital on the ground. We began with how these high level development goals were created through a broad stakeholder engagement and then explored how ESG ratings and products are incorporating and addressing the SDGs. The audience raised issues about the challenges and gaps in taking policy objectives and then applying them to investment. These included incorporating the negative as well as the positive impacts of corporations and the geographic and sector concentration that the SDGs represent.