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IMPACT ECONOMICS

We believe that there is more to value than traditional profit and loss

What is Impact Economics?

Impact economics translates sustainability into the language of finance. 

Impact economics puts a monetary value on business externalities: the positive and negative impacts on environmental and societal well-being. This is not just another ESG score: impact economics is an academic field.

We use a globally-accepted methodology - leveraging thousands of peer-reviewed scientific papers and weaving together multiple datasets - to calculate impacts at granular scale worldwide.

Types of Capital

We capture impacts across four capitals: natural, human, social and produced.

Natural
Capital

Represents the limited stocks of physical and biological resources found on earth, and of the limited capacity of ecosystems to provide ecosystem services.

Human
Capital

Represents the knowledge, skills, competencies and attributes embodied in individuals that facilitate the creation of personal, social and economic well-being.

Social
Capital

Represents the productive value of social connections, in both the narrow sense of the production of market goods and services and the production of a broad range of well-being outcomes.

Produced
Capital

Represents all man-made assets such as infrastructure (e.g. buildings, roads, dams), technology (e.g. machinery, tools, patents) and capital (e.g. bank deposits, shares, securities, currency).

Our approach

Focusing on all forms of capital helps companies create authentic value in the long-term.

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