Investing with SDG Outcomes: A Five-part Framework

Last updated: 2020

The “Investing with SDG Outcomes: A Five-part Framework” provides a high-level framework for investors to shape real-world outcomes in line with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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.

Corporate Impact Analysis Tool

Last updated: 2023

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.

Science-Based Targets for Nature: Initial Guidance for Business

Last updated: 2020

This guidance helps organisations to set nature-related science-based targets. More generally, SBTn is embarking on a multi-year strategy to develop guidance for translating planetary thresholds and societal goals into company-specific targets for air, water, land, biodiversity and ocean.

Use this resource for the following Actions of Impact Management:

  • Set targets and plan: Set a company-specific target that references an ecological threshold for nature.

Portfolio Impact Analysis Tool for Banks

Last updated: 2023

This tool is designed to help banks and investors holistically understand and manage the actual and potential impacts of their portfolios.

Use this resource for the following Actions of Impact Management:

  • Identify: Understand the impact areas and topics associated with a bank’s portfolio, based on portfolio composition and context; and identify the bank’s most significant impact areas.
  • Measure, assess and value: Assess current practice and performance vis-à-vis most significant impact areas, by combining the tool’s ‘Identification’ outputs with additional data; use the assessment as a basis for target-setting and defining the bank’s action plan.
  • Set targets and plan: Define relevant and meaningful targets and action plans.
  • Implement: Inform and carry out impact management process.
  • Monitor, learn and adapt: Monitor practice and performance; and use the assessment to make improvements and adjust targets.