From niche to norm: The call to mainstream impact management

Leading sustainability initiatives explain why the time for impact management is now and how their consensus-building work is progressing. Presented by the Impact Management Platform, a collaboration between the leading providers of sustainability standards and guidance that are coordinating efforts to clarify and mainstream the practice of impact management. The Partners of the Impact Management Platform are gathering on 5th July to present The Imperative for Impact Management, a thought piece that sets out the case for impact management, as well as a new, consolidated iteration of the Actions of impact management, the Partners’ consensus view of the practice the fundamental characteristics of impact management. On the agenda, a rich discussion involving the Partners of the Platform: • Leading remarks and calls for action • Panel 1: Why do enterprises, investors and financial institutions urgently need to adopt impact management? • Panel 2: Mainstreaming impact management: Towards a complete and coherent system of norms and resources • Panel 3: The role of policy in mainstreaming impact management The speakers, representing a range of the Partner organisations, include: • Romina Boarini, Director of the Centre on Well-being, Inclusion, Sustainability and Equal Opportunity (WISE) at OECD • Clay Brown, Head of Standards, Certification & Product Delivery at B Lab • Ben Carpenter, CEO at Social Value International • Gerbrand Haverkamp, Executive Director at the World Benchmarking Alliance • Fabienne Michaux, Director of SDG Impact at the UN Development Programme • Cliff Prior, CEO at Global Steering Group for Impact Investment (GSG) • Eric Usher, Head of the UN Environment Programme - Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) • Peter Paul van der Wijs, Chief External Affairs Officer at the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)