We execute our strategy by identifying potential grant partners through our own deep research and engage with them to understand how we might be of mutual support. We do not accept unsolicited applications for funding.
Principles for Responsible Investment (UNPRI or PRI) is a United Nations-supported international network of investors working together to implement its six aspirational principles, often referenced as "the Principles". Its goal is to understand the implications of sustainability for investors and support signatories to facilitate incorporating these issues into their investment decision-making and ownership practices.
United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative
United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative
The United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative is a global partnership established between the United Nations Environment Program and the financial sector. The UNEP FI consists of 215 members from financial institutions and 41 supporting institutions. These members include banks, investors and insurance companies.
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer is a global law firm with a long-standing track record of successfully supporting the world's leading national and multinational corporations, financial institutions and governments on ground-breaking and business-critical mandates.
A Legal Framework for Impact is a flagship project of the Generation Foundation, Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) and the UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI). The project aims to identify and overcome the barriers to a financial system that is consistent with the achievement of the SDGs and limiting warming to 1.5°C.
The project’s first output is a pioneering report authored by Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. It provides the first ever comprehensive analysis of how far the law requires or permits investors to take deliberate steps to tackle sustainability challenges in discharging their duties, described as investing for sustainability impact (“IFSI”).
Following the publication of the paper, the Generation Foundation will embark on phase two of the work in partnership with PRI and UNEP FI. Together, we will work to put the report’s findings into practice in five key jurisdictions – the UK, Europe, Australia, Canada and Japan.
David Blood, Senior Partner of Generation Investment Management, speaks with Fiona Reynolds, former CEO of the PRI, about the need for investors to consider impact. Go to podcastGo to podcast
The PRI podcast
Listen to David Rouch, one of the report's lead authors and partner at Freshfields, introduce A Legal Framework for Impact report.Go to podcastGo to podcast
Investing for sustainability impact
Project team members talk to Martin Johansson, General Counsel at AP2, about what investing for sustainability impact means and why it is important. Go to podcastGo to podcast
