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On the 27th of June, we hosted the 3rd session of the Circular Investment Readiness Network exploring tips and strategies for securing funding and attracting investors to your circular economy initiatives. Here are our key takeaways 👇 ✅ Demonstrating the cash flow generating capacity of your product is key to attracting financiers. ✅ Highlighting how circular businesses reduce environmental risks and contribute to long-term sustainability can attract additional funding. ✅Working with other organisations across the value chain can maximise benefits by sharing byproducts amongst each other. ✅Determining and tracking impact KPIs can help demonstrate to investors how circular businesses meet their own goals, for example, compliance with environmental regulations. 🚀 Insights from successful investment in a circular project 👇 💡Stays ahead of regulatory changes and demonstrates the project’s contribution to compliance. 💡Operates in a niche market with limited competition. 💡Positions its product as a 'need to have' rather than a 'nice to have'. A huge thank you to our expert speakers: Elisa Achterberg (Circular Finance Lab), Zachary Mitchell (Metabolic), Jorge Rodrigues de Almeida (RdA Climate Solutions, partner in the HOOP Project) and Christin ter Braak-Forstinger, Dr., LL.M. (Chi Impact Capital) What are your takeaways from this event?

Event fatigue anyone? There have been A LOT of events in June, and we're only half way through the month. So instead of another "I've been to this event" post, I thought I'd share my thoughts mid season.... some have been so so, at least from a "are there signs of enough change in the way we do business that will give us a shot at a positive, fair and habitable planet?" point of view; there is certainly plenty of talk, but is there enough action? It was my first Environmental Business Network event on Friday, and it was a hopeful and positive way to finish the week. Steve Waygood from Aviva Investors cracked it; "what should be priceless is treated as worthless because no-one pays for it", which is highly topical currently amid discussions on how can we provide a £ value on investing in Positive Impact projects, even if an individual company or project doesn't yield an immediate return? Carbon credits are one way to try to put a value on carbon, but what about being able to prove planetary and people returns on reducing carbon rather than offsetting, or in clean, sewage free rivers, and protecting biodiversity to support our food systems? Add to that preventative health investment both here and abroad, education, you name it there are plenty of things that need investment but don't get enough. My belief is that to change the world for the better, we need to change where the money goes, and the slide behind the panel shows just how complex a challenge that is (school day for me right there), and the need for collaborative action from all the players. Hearing from James Close, (leading the charge on the Climate Transition plan for NatWest Group which is visible in action across the Bank, from Green Mortgages, Carbon Footprints, retrofitting support and finance for individuals, Carbon Planners for SMEs), along with Steve and the incredible innovator Barry Thompson (check out Alpha 311 Wind Turbines!), along with our very own Kimberley Abbott brought together by Roger McKerlie, went some way to demonstrating what happens if the different actors in the sector get their heads, and their organisations, together! I hope June events Part 2 can also demonstrate action as well as talk! #sustainablefinance #responsiblebanking #impactinvesting #sdr #sfdr #csddd #greenfinance #sustainableinvesting

At CapitaLand Investment (#CLI), sustainability reporting is not just a nice-to-have; it has become a priority.    Having recently published our first standalone Climate Resilience Report aligned with Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), as well as numerous Global Sustainability Reports and the refreshed 2030 Sustainability Master Plan, we have the opportunity to demonstrate to all our stakeholders how we integrate ESG into CapitaLand Investment's strategy.   We're honoured to be recognised by corporate governance expert and Director, Centre for Governance and Sustainability, NUS Business School, Prof Lawrence Loh, in his recent article in The Straits Times about sustainability reporting. Prof Loh also highlighted how CLI retrofitted heritage buildings in Clarke Quay to improve environmental performance, resulting in cost avoidance of $120,000 a year. https://bit.ly/STartESG (subscription required)   Our Sustainability team is putting the final touches to CLI's 15th Global Sustainability Report, which will be released this quarter. Follow us for the latest updates on our sustainability and ESG activities, as well as developments from the organisation.   For more information about our Sustainability strategy, CLI's 2030 Sustainability Master Plan, our Science-Based Targets, the CapitaLand Sustainability X Challenge and more, please visit https://bit.ly/Clisusty   #CapitaLand #CapitaLandInvestment #TCFD #Sustainability #sustainabilityreport #climatechange #NUS 

Our new client friendly 'Spectrum of Sustainable Investing' infographic highlights the most common strategies in an easy to understand visual format and explains how the various approaches differ from one another. Learn more: https://bit.ly/3EtmnYh

So what are carbon markets and what purpose do they serve? We discussed all that at DIFC Future Sustainability Forum. It was rather interesting to hear the view also from the crypto industry. See you next time!

Smithi Sharma Campbell, our ESG and Assurance Manager, recently sat on the ‘Promising finance strategies and innovation’ panel at the Global Solutions Forum with Pauline Martin and Dr. Olufunso Somorin. The forum, hosted by the World Green Building Council, brought together sustainability and built environment leaders to discuss finance as a critical tool for accelerating a sustainable transformation in the building sector. In particular, the focus was on incentivising carbon reductive solutions across the sector. Smithi and the rest of the panel discussed several key topics including: * How it is time for policies to push the sustainability agenda even further on a macro and microeconomic scale * How blended finance could provide an answer to the challenges that businesses face when scaling up innovative strategies by pooling resources and spreading out risks * The built environment has a vital role to play in the net zero transition, but nimble, collaborative solutions, that are financially backed on a large scale, are needed if we are to rise to the challenge. Many thanks to Julie Emmrich and Matthew Black for hosting the day and to James Hooton for moderating the panel. #GlobalSolutionsForum #WorldGreenBuildingCouncil #sustainablefinance #developmentfinance #netzero

"Happy to kick off our video series on Sustainable Finance called 'Back to Basics'! 🎥 The idea is super simple: 1 topic, 1 video, 3 minutes ! Why are we doing this? Because beyond our community that speaks with jargon and acronyms like CSRD and UNGC, there's a vast audience of investors and professionals that would benefit from a brief introduction to the most common concepts. Join us for our first video, 'Sustainable Finance and Wealth Management,' where we'll explain why we think sustainability is increasingly vital for this industry. https://lnkd.in/d_VArta4 💡 Have specific topics in mind you'd like us to cover in future videos? We'd love to hear your suggestions! Comment below with your ideas or feel free to email us at [email protected] if you prefer to share privately. Help us make sustainable finance more accessible to all. #SustainableFinance #WealthManagement #FinanceEducation"

Here's how we walk the talk in terms of sustainable investing.