30 posts found.
Selected Category: Sustainability
UNICEF and Finnfund collaborate on Child-lens investing
Promotion of the Child-lens Investing Framework aims to direct more global capital towards the well-being of children. Finnfund, the Finnish development financier and impact investor, and UNICEF, strengthen their collaboration on the adoption of UNICEF’s Child-lens Investing Framework (CLIF) with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding. Child-lens investing is a novel approach that encourages […]
Read moreOctober 29, 2024
Impact investor is never (completely) satisfied
When you are in the business of impact investing and work on impact and sustainability, you can never be completely satisfied with your current stage. The industry has been evolving very rapidly from pretty niche do-good-businesses to credible and powerful mainstream investment strategies of large asset owners. The one who stays still gets rapidly pushed […]
Read moreApril 19, 2024
Let’s talk biodiversity – Finnfund’s nature and biodiversity statement in preparation
“Biodiversity is life in all its forms and the protection of life,” said Sami El Geneidy, Doctoral Researcher and Biodiversity Footprint Team Lead at the University of Jyväskylä. On 25th of January, Finnfund organised a workshop to discuss biodiversity and the role of investors in mitigating the negative impacts and enhancing positive impacts of businesses […]
Read moreJanuary 26, 2024
Celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
As the world is celebrating the 75th anniversary of the adoption of the United Nation’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights, it is time for us at Finnfund to reflect on our work with human rights. Thru our human rights due diligence processes, we have identified and mitigated the actual and potential adverse human rights impacts […]
Read moreDecember 11, 2023
Finnfund’s Annual Report awarded as the best annual report of the year in Finland
Finnfund’s 2022 Annual Report has been selected as the best annual report of the year in the “Oma Media” competition of Procom, The Finnish Association of Communication Professionals. Finnfund’s annual report was praised as a balanced and visually high-level entity that reflects the company’s operations well. “We are glad and grateful for this recognition,” said […]
Read moreNovember 27, 2023
We need ambitious targets for nature and biodiversity
In the middle of Finnish winter, birds are swarming around the feeding place in my garden but many species that were frequent visitors 20 years ago are not around. To be honest, I’m not a winter –person and I’m dreaming of my childhood springs, how blooming apple trees spread their scent in the garden, and […]
Read moreDecember 12, 2022
A tale of surveillance – investor’s role in dealing with data confidentiality
For me, Address Unknown is one of those books that everyone should read, over and over. It is one of those books that resonate when I think about cybersecurity, user data confidentiality, telecom sector and democracy. Despite the fact that the book was written in 1938, the basic idea is still, unfortunately, very topical today. […]
Read moreJune 27, 2022
Stakeholders’ voice – using technology to collect feedback directly from the key people
The world has now lived with the Covid-19 pandemic for over two years. The evidence shows that it has hit the least-developed countries the hardest. At the same time, climate change is increasingly affecting peoples’ daily lives. Again, those already in vulnerable positions are suffering the most. In this milieu, there is a need to understand […]
Read moreJune 6, 2022
Getting together again – EDFI spring meeting brought E&S and impact specialists to Helsinki
European development finance institutions’ (EDFI) E&S and Impact Spring meeting brought both environmental & social sustainability and impact specialists together on 25-27 April in Helsinki. The meeting consisted of three days full of discussions and knowledge sharing on climate change policies and practices in mitigation and adaptation, biodiversity, human rights, impact management, and so forth. […]
Read moreMay 4, 2022
Listen to your stakeholders
In order to make good, smart decisions, we must have a thorough understanding of the changes in our operational environment and listen to our key people. This was the main idea when we started to work on our stakeholder survey. We wanted to know what our key people – such as our owners and other […]
Read moreMarch 7, 2022