GISD

• The Impact Disclosure Taskforce (the "Taskforce") was established to promote transparency and accountability among corporates and sovereigns regarding their intentions and progress towards advancing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
• The guidance supports entities committed to addressing development needs and reducing global inequality to access growing pools of sustainable capital
• The Taskforce anticipates releasing the voluntary Impact Disclosure Guidance for public consultation in April 2024

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Representatives from GISD member organisations were in Tokyo, Japan in early October to take part in PRI in Person, an annual conference organised by a core partner of the GISD Alliance: the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI).

GISD's metrics have helped Infosys, an Alliance member and digital services multinational company, to measure its company SDG performance in a more granular fashion. Infosys first published a sustainability report in 2007/8, using sector-agnostic metrics to measure performance across environmental impact, human rights adherence, labor practices, and economic performance.

ESG Book has incorporated recommendations made by the GISD Alliance for sector-specific, SDG-related metrics in its digital platform, facilitating the adoption of these metrics by the 25,000+ companies covered by the platform.

Several UN entities have produced a joint statement that puts forward their vision to create a sustainability reporting framework, which is fit-for-purpose and supportive of globally agreed ambitions and goals.

The statement highlights the need for a holistic and forward-looking approach to assessing enterprise value, which would enable a company and its investors to account for uncertainty linked to sustainability risks and opportunities.

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 and social impact and linkages to the SDGs.

As a means of strengthening this measurement, Aware Super incorporated the SDI definition into its investment due diligence. The SDI assessment is completed by the Responsible Investment team and is applied to prospective private market investments, consisting of infrastructure, property, and private equity assets.