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Week 7 of eight in the Green Finance Professional Certificate, 108 contact hours for finance professionals, taught at the University of Twente and published by the Erasmus+ GREEN FINANCE project under CC BY 4.0. The project's second programme, the micro-credential, is five modules and 30 lessons worth 4 credits in the European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS).

Week 7: Impact Investing

Learning Goals

  1. Understand impact measurement frameworks including IRIS+ and SROI
  2. Align investments with SDGs using systematic mapping approaches
  3. Evaluate natural capital and biodiversity considerations

Topics Covered

  • IRIS+ impact metrics
  • Social Return on Investment (SROI)
  • SDG alignment mapping
  • Impact measurement and management
  • Natural capital accounting
  • Biodiversity finance

Who publishes each framework

FrameworkPublisherEdition the week uses
IRIS+Global Impact Investing Networkthe catalogue as published by the GIIN, drawn on for the metric sets in the worked examples
The five dimensions of impactImpact Management Project, carried forward by Impact Frontiersthe five dimensions as set out by the Impact Management Project
Social Return on InvestmentSocial Value Internationalthe seven principles of social value
Market sizeGlobal Impact Investing NetworkSizing the Impact Investing Market 2024, the source of the 21% compound growth figure on slide 6

The week works in spreadsheets and needs no software beyond the ones the course sets up in week 1: Microsoft Excel, and Python 3 with pandas, numpy and matplotlib.

Materials

(c) Joerg Osterrieder, University of Twente

The project's published teaching material is free to use under CC BY 4.0. Attribute it to the GREEN FINANCE consortium and name the grant, 101237817.

Co-funded by the European Union - Erasmus+ Programme

Erasmus+ Programme | Capacity Building in Higher Education
Project 101237817 - GREEN FINANCE
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