In May 2020, a consortium of investors, including PensionDanmark — one of Europe’s 50 largest pension funds and a pioneer in sustainable and impact investing — committed more than 50 million euros to begin work on the development of an energy island 100 km off the coast in the North Sea called VindØ (“wind island”).
What Impact Investors Can Learn from the Organizations They Work with
You’ve got the money. They’ve got the expertise. You need to be in the same room.
February 08, 2021
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Summary.
One in five investors in a recent BlackRock survey indicated that their experience of the pandemic has increased their interest in sustainable investing. But if investors want to double the money flowing into sustainable investing, they’ll have to do more than simply double the amounts they put in. The authors’ experience as grant-makers, investors, and activists suggests that in order for the sector to grow at the scale needed, investors need to get into the same room as the “problem solvers” — the people and organizations working on the environmental and social problems that sustainable investors want to help fix. This article presents examples of that collaboration at work.