New EIIL release : The impact of climate finance initiatives
How can we ensure that climate finance initiatives are delivering the desired environmental impact?
This report coordinated by the European Impact Investing Luxembourg (EIIL) explores the opportunities and challenges of tools and initiatives designed to attract private investment into climate finance and effective ways of linking the environmental impact with financial returns.
New EIIL release : Sustainable Development Bonds Report
Over the last few years, the development and impact finance sectors have developed numerous innovative investment instruments to attract both private and public investors. In addition to popular layered funds, various types of bonds instruments such as green bonds, social impact bonds, and project bonds have emerged.
This short report aims to clarify and present the different bonds currently available on the market that can help solve the SDGs investment gap.
What can Luxembourg contribute to the financing of climate change adaptation and mitigation?
The European Impact Investing Luxembourg (EIIL) network published a paper on Luxembourg-based structured climate funds. Luxembourg structured climate funds are already doing pioneering work today to finance a wide range of important activities from renewable energies to climate smart landscapes.
Significant amounts of investments are needed to convert, adapt, evolve and disrupt our current carbon based economy into a carbon neutral or even carbon positive economy. The transition to renewable energies alone will require upfront investments in the order of USD 8 trillion. Scarce public funds should be used strategically to attract private sector investment towards economically viable climate finance projects. In this context, The EIIL has taken stock of what Luxembourg’s fund sector is already doing to mobilize financing for climate change mitigation and adaptation.
Impact Metrics for Real
A possible operational framework for impact metrics for the anticipated regime of a Société d’Impact Sociétal, provided in an advisory assignment by the UK consulting firm Bates Wells Braithwaite
It still remains to be seen how ambitious the draft bill on the status of the Société d’Impact Sociétal (SIS) to be introduced by the Luxembourg government will be. The proposal worked out by European Impact Investing Luxembourg (EIIL) over the last couple of years has indeed been ambitious, suggesting a framework in which the pursuit of societal impact and financial return co-exist at par in economic decision making processes.
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Working groups
Société d'Impact Sociétal (SIS)
A Société d’Impact Sociétal (SIS) is a company whose first objective is to generate a measurable positive social or environmental impact, the second objective being the financial return.
The SIS moves away from the market economy logics that we are used to by composing with investors with very different backgrounds and motivations. On one side, impact investors provide capital whose sole ambition is the creation of social...
Luxembourg Impact Investing Platform (LIIP)
Creation of a Luxembourg Impact Investing Platform.
Impacting investing is a nascent sector seeking to build financial intermediation chains for enterprises with social and/or environmental impact. The intermediation between capital markets and impact enterprises often takes the form of investment funds. As expected in a young sector many of these funds are small and experimenting to build sustainable models.
Foundations
Foundations have traditionally played a paramount role in philanthropic activity. They have been serving corporates, endowments and family offices alike as a means to organize their activities focused on societal benefits.
The sector represents a large amount of worldwide assets available for social purposes which could position foundations as key actors in the field of impact investing...
Crowdfunding
Crowdfunding is a collaborative finance system that pools small amounts of money from a lot of people to fund a specific project. It works usually via web platforms facilitating the financial exchange between the investor and the project entrepreneur.
Crowdfunding represents a great opportunity for both the investors and the entrepreneurs but it also brings some risks that none of them should underestimate. On the funders’ side some of the risks could be the lack of protection against fraud...
Impact Measurement
Ever since Impact Investing has made it to the forefront of debate on alternative investment approaches impact metrics have played a vital role.
If it is true that the main difference between traditional finance and impact investing is in the conscious consideration of an investment’s environmental and social impact then making this very impact tangible and transparent in the process is a core criterion in defining the social impact space...
About EIIL
A group of Luxembourg-based firms in the financial services sector that seek to promote Luxembourg as a hub financial center for impact investing.
The European Impact Investing Luxembourg seeks to play the role of an information exchange platform between stakeholders of the impact investing space. The European Impact Investing Luxembourg’s approach is impartial with respect to various stakeholders.
Leading private banking centre with a long time engagement in development aid, Luxembourg is well positionned to play a catalytic role for impact investing on its pathway towards becoming a mainstream asset class.
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