Our current economic system runs on an incomplete picture.
For decades, our economic system has tracked only a single measure: financial return, because it was never designed to account for the natural, social, and human capitals on which economic value ultimately rests and prospers.
This is a structural blind spot, and it’s no longer sustainable. Decision-makers need to look behind the money.
In Numbers
60% of senior decision-makers are driven by an interest in redefining success beyond only financial metrics (Capitals Coalition and GlobeScan Survey)
Almost 80% of global investors surveyed are likely to choose a financial advisor or investment platform based on sustainable investing offerings. Gen Z (96%) and Millennials (92%)(Morgan Stanley)
A disorderly transition is viewed as a risk to almost all businesses (98%) yet just 15% feel fully prepared. (WBCSD)
What we do
System change is complex, and no single organization can drive it alone. It requires collaboration across the ecosystem, a coalition of the willing.
We sit at the intersection of strategy and implementation. We bridge that gap working hand-in-hand with the people who hold the levers of change: accountants, financial institutions, businesses, and regulators to integrate the value of all capitals into existing systems and processes and make impact valuation the norm.
Coalition Organizations
Thought Leadership
The Signal Edit – Episode 3
Between March and May this year, Capitals Coalition, in partnership with GlobeScan, gathered responses from senior decision-makers across business, government, and the third sector (including 41% C-suite). The aim was to understand whether current decision-making practices are considered fit for purpose. We thought they would have asked for better tools, instead, they are asking for system change.
Leaders Interview – George Serafeim, Harvard Business School Professor
Welcome to the second of the Leaders Interview series, where we dive into conversations with some of the innovators shaping the impact valuation landscape. With the new consultation on the Exposure Draft of the Waste Methodology just opened, we invited George Serafeim, Professor at Harvard Business School and Chair of the Impact Value Standards Board (IVSB). He worked with Sir Ronald Cohen on Impact Weighted Accounts, sharing the same profound belief in the importance of impact measurement and valuation, and he explores the challenges and opportunities in profitable purpose-driven organizations.
The Signal Edit – Episode 2
Two themes have dominated nature and finance conversations over the past month, and together they reveal just how much ground remains to be covered: the tension between data, knowledge and wisdom in nature-related decision-making, and the need for more predictable and stable policy signals to help investors embed nature and society into their strategies.
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