The Impact Finance Working Group is dedicated to the dynamics and challenges of financing sustainable development and social innovation initiatives in France and abroad. It brings together several organizations working in the fields of impact investing, solidarity and inclusive finance, microfinance, climate finance and philanthropy. Since 2023, it also includes the members of the Impact Finance Barometer steering committee.
The objectives of this WG are multiple:
- Co-construct the programming of the 3Zero World Forum, by including the major issues of sustainable, solidarity and impact finance;
- Define the editorial line of the Impact Finance Barometer;
- Gather a community of actors committed to these subjects.
Discover the latest contributions of the Impact Finance WG at the 3Zero World Forum:
At the “first mile”, which multi-stakeholder approach is needed to move impact finance and the impact economy from the margin to the norm? – 3Zero World Forum 2023
Impact washing: ensuring a genuine chain of responsible impact – 3Zero World Forum 2022
The Impact Finance Barometer
Since 2021, the Impact Finance Barometer has presented key figures and global trends in financial inclusion and impact investing, a sector that has enjoyed strong, sustained momentum since its emergence in the early 2000s. Indeed, for the first time since the GIIN began estimating the size of the global impact investment market, it has passed the symbolic $1,000 billion mark, reaching $1,164 billion by 2022. What motivates the sector today? What levers can be activated to facilitate exchanges between impact finance players? How can we ensure its ethics and transparency? How to guarantee that financial flows are properly channeled to players in the field?
By inviting the structures of our ecosystem to share their expertise on the subject of impact, this publication aims to make its contribution to the debate. The Barometer offers a panoramic view of the different forms that impact finance can take, highlights its real operating capacities on a global scale through concrete examples, and highlights responses to the issues of inclusion and financing social and environmental transitions.
