Organisations

The Corporate Impact Analysis Tool helps banks and investors understand the actual and potential impacts of their clients and investee companies, as part of their impact management strategy and processes.

Use this resource for the following Actions of Impact Management:

• Implement: Banks and investors can use the Tool’s findings to carry out portfolio management and client engagement. Additionally, the Tool can be used by enterprises themselves to integrate impact management into their own strategic planning and business development practices.

This guide briefly introduces a leading methodology for translating planetary thresholds related to greenhouse gas emissions into company-specific targets. It also provides further links to more detailed implementation guidance.

Use this resource for the following Actions of Impact Management:

• Set targets and plan: Set a company-specific target for greenhouse gas emissions that incorporates an ecological threshold for a given global warming scenario.

Benchmarks that rank companies based on their impact. The WBA recognises that transformations are needed to achieve sustainability across seven systems. In each of these seven systems, companies that have a big role to play in hindering or advancing progress towards a sustainable future are identified as ‘keystone’ companies. WBA then develops a publicly available methodology for each system (or component of a system), drawing on existing standards to identify relevant topics and associated metrics for companies to disclose against.

Use this resource to:

• Find the methodology that corresponds best to the ‘system’ that the organisation operates within. Understand the list of topics and methodologies in the relevant ‘system’ when identifying sustainability topics to measure

The SASB Materiality Map is a tool to help companies identify and prioritise sustainability issues that are financially material to their industry. It provides a framework for assessing the relevance and impact of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors on business performance and value creation.

Use this resource for the following Actions of Impact Management:

• Communicate: Use disclosure guidance and standards to disclose on material issues, recognising how various sustainability factors have a material impact on the viability of a company as well as its financial performance.

Standard and guidance on how to apply the second of SVI’s Social Value Principles.

Use this resource to:

• Measure, assess and value: Engage with stakeholders to collaboratively agree on which outcomes to measure. This practice standard contains guidance on how an organisation can examine ‘chains of events’ and engage with stakeholders to decide the most appropriate point of measurement to support management decision-making (framed as ‘well-defined’ outcomes).

Forthcoming: Standard and guidance on how to apply the second of SVI’s Social Value Principles.

Use this resource to:

• Measure, assess and value: Design custom metrics. This practice standard builds on Part 1, which outlines how to design custom metrics to measure a ‘well-defined’ outcome.

The Principles of Social Value guide organisations in considering social value in decision-making, aiming to optimise value for all stakeholders materially affected by their activities. The practice standards help organisations to implement each principle to a point where they are accountable for their activities.

This is a cross-cutting resource, meaning that it supports the internal impact management process as a whole, rather than one or a few of the Actions of Impact Management.

Standard and guidance on how to apply the first of SVI’s Social Value Principles.

Use this resource to:

• Identify: Use the guidance on identifying stakeholders and engaging with them to understand actual and potential significant impacts.
• Set targets and plan: Use the guidance on identifying stakeholders, engaging with them, and collecting information to help shape strategy and objectives.

Database of the OECD’s publicly available statistics.

Use this resource to:

• Identify: Use the database to identify areas of need in relation to specific sustainability topics. Especially useful for organisations designing business models to meet the needs of a group of people or the natural environment.

Database of the World Bank’s publicly available statistics.

Use this resource to:

• Identify: Use the database to identify areas of need in relation to specific sustainability topics. Especially useful for organisations designing business models to meet the needs of a group of people or the natural environment.