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Space technology underpins climate monitoring, agriculture and communications, but dedicated impact funds remain rare. Should impact investors look to space to protect life on Earth and progress the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals?

Daniel Nowack, head of social innovation at the Schwab Foundation, speaks to Impact Investor about the growing gap between climate finance and health system resilience and the opportunities for investment.

Critical minerals and rare earth elements are indispensable to the transition to net zero, despite the social and environmental challenges of their extraction and processing. How should impact investors approach this green paradox?

As the UK’s LGPS reforms, which shift implementation to pension pools come into effect, questions remain over whether local impact investment can survive at greater scale.

As fast fashion and its societal and environmental impacts continue to gather pace, Impact Investor investigates the challenges of the sector and the opportunities available to investors to drive lasting change.

A pilot fund aims to build the evidence and investment structure needed to scale child-lens investing beyond philanthropy, with ambitions to launch a £20m vehicle capable of attracting institutional capital by 2027.

Zurich Insurance, ERAFP and PGGM discuss their differing approaches across listed equities and bonds, and examine the role of additionality in an impact investing approach.

As governments and investors increasingly embrace impact investing, the next challenge is building the systems that allow it to scale, says Elizabeth Boggs Davidsen, CEO of GSG Impact.

As climate finance grows, the biggest challenge in adaptation may no longer be raising capital but creating the projects, structures, and pipelines needed to deploy it at scale, argues Monty Simus.

Lars Bo Betram, the  Danish institution’s CEO, tells Impact Investor how it is tailoring its blended finance products to attract more private institutional investment.

How governance and exit practices differ, and why the time to design exit frameworks is now, according to Bernarda Coello, Ana Pimenta, and Ronald Huisman.

By accelerating pension fund consolidation and encouraging long-term investment, the UK’s new Pension Schemes Act could channel more institutional capital into impact strategies. Yet questions remain over whether smaller impact managers will benefit from the reforms.

As market volatility hits levels unseen since WWII, the Impact Investing Institute’s Sarah Teacher argues investors are using an outdated rulebook, and that an impact lens could strenghten portfolio resilience.

NGO-related and non-NGO related impact investors approach measurement, accountability and impact management in markedly different ways, say Bernarda Coello, Ana Pimenta, Ronald Huisman.

The  fund, which is part of Singapore’s FAST-P initiative to mobilise $5bn of investment for green infrastructure in Asia, is seeking more institutional support as it targets a final size of $600m.

Impact-first investment funds complete more deals and at lower cost per transaction than traditional peers, a new study finds.

Companies with negative contributions to SDG impacts outperform their peers, according to new research, raising questions about the investment case for SDG-aligned portfolios.

Jenn Pryce talks to Impact Investor about how to attract more money to impact investing in difficult times, as well as the organisation’s discussions with European asset managers over setting up a $1bn-plus global impact platform.

A study of 43 impact investors finds that intentionality takes very different forms in practice. Understanding these behavioural differences could offer a more reliable guide to investment decision-making, say Bernarda Coello, Ana Pimenta, Ronald Huisman.

New Forests’ first global offering will target investment opportunities in forestry, agriculture, and complementary markets across North America, Europe, Australia-New Zealand, Latin America, Southeast Asia and Africa.

From rising inequality to mounting debt, wage suppression is increasingly emerging as a threat not only to workers, but to the resilience of the global economy and financial markets, says Jens Presthus.