Aligning investments with Sustainable Improvement Objectives (SDGs) has been a longstanding ambition for a lot of non-public buyers. The evaluation of company impression on the SDGs shouldn’t be a trivial process, and most present-day makes an attempt usually overlook SDG interactions, and lack scientific anchoring and transparency. The authors current an evidence-based evaluate strategy for buyers to evaluate sector-level impacts on particular person SDGs, and rating these utilizing a traffic-light system. Their preliminary evaluate paperwork impacts of 81 financial sectors on SDGs 1-16. Outcomes present that environmental SDGs are impacted negatively by most financial sectors, and that major sector actions negatively impression the very best variety of SDGs. Utilizing the agricultural sector as a case, the authors draw on Causal Loop methodology as an example spillovers ensuing from SDG interactions. Their findings level to 3 key issues of relevance for sustainable funding methods; the need to seize ‘impression shadows’, spillovers throughout SDGs, and the hierarchical nature of the SDGs.

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