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Aware Super integrates the SDI definition into its due diligence

In 2018, Aware Super, a GISD member and pension fund based in Australia with approximately AUD$150 billion in assets, set a goal of strengthening its measurement of environmental…

GISD in collaboration with ICGN launches a new Model Mandate to align investment portfolios with sustainable development

Together with the International Corporate Governance Network (ICGN), the GISD Alliance is launching a new Model Mandate to provide asset owners with guidance that facilitates the…

Safaricom collaborated with GSMA to push for common sector KPIs

In line with the work Safaricom led for the GISD last year on sector-specific, SDG-related metrics, the Kenya mobile operator and GISD member participated in the working group of…

Watch the GISD-hosted panel discussion broadcasting from the World Economic Forum in Davos

Of the US$3 trillion needed to finance the SDGs, the average annual financing gap for emerging markets is US$2.5 trillion. This will have grown as a result of the Covid pandemic,…

Sustainable Infrastructure Investment Platform: Request for Expressions of Interest is now open

The Global Investors for Sustainable Development (GISD) Alliance calls on global infrastructure asset managers to express their interest in partnering to jointly develop and…

Business leaders join Secretary-General to ramp up delivery of critical investment tools to mobilize investment in sustainable development

At their annual meeting with United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres today, the Global Investors for Sustainable Development (GISD) Alliance issued a joint statement…

Research shows that the GISD SDI definition can be operationalized into a competitive equity index

As one of its first deliverables, the GISD Alliance set a common norm for investing in the SDGs. The resulting Sustainable Development Investing (SDI) definition has since been a…