As a dyed in the wool ESG/ESIA (with a lens on S) practitioner I look forward to the convergences between the environmental planning mechanisms and the deluge of disclosure standards that have the potency to overwhelm. ESIA and ESDDs are disclosures within ESG risk frameworks when they are a part of disclosures on MFI websites as a part of transaction transparency.

The old and the emerging need to speak to each other, as good data is actionable data at asset level aggregated to the scale of the global organization.

Impact in Climate Innovation requires a bunch of things- a problem to solve deeply and at scale – an understanding of science, finance, law, and culture. The problem is often interdisciplinary scholars and bridge builders operate from a white space with poor institutional backing.