Bridges Annual Report 2024/25
Highlights from a year in which the Bridges group continued to build our platform of sustainable and impact assets, despite the challenging macro environment.
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About us
Field-building
A critical part of Bridges’ mission is building the market for sustainable and impact investing, through partnerships, collaborative projects and thought-leadership.
A critical part of Bridges’ mission is building the market for sustainable and impact investing, through partnerships, collaborative projects and thought-leadership.
Impact Management Project
The primary focus of our recent field-building work has been the Impact Management Project, which Bridges Insights launched in 2016 and hosted/ facilitated until its conclusion in 2022.
In its initial phase, this ground-breaking initiative brought together over 2,000 organisations from across the global value chain to agree on shared fundamentals for how we measure, manage and report on impacts on people and the natural environment. This work is now being continued by The Impact Management Platform.
From 2018, the IMP’s primary focus was coordinating the Structured Network – an unprecedented collaboration between 15 of the world’s leading standard-setters to provide comprehensive, interoperable standards and guidance for impact measurement, assessment and reporting.
A subset of the Network members went on to co-create a shared vision for corporate reporting and sustainability-related financial disclosure can be used together. Members of the IMP team then worked with the IFRS Foundation to develop the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB), which was launched at COP26.
The Impact Management Platform
Frontiers
Impact Frontiers
Impact Frontiers is a learning and innovation collaboration of investors and field-builders dedicated to advancing the integration of impact into financial frameworks, processes, and decision-making.
Impact Frontiers
Knowledge
Proprietary research & knowledge-sharing
Over the years, we have published a number of papers on topics where we felt our experience of sustainable and impact investing could help support the growth of the broader market.
Previous examples include the Bridges Spectrum of Capital; a case study of how Skopos Impact Fund developed its impact management framework; and an analysis of the investment case for B Corporations.
Our insights
A Spectrum of Real Estate Decarbonisation
Our Spectrum of Real Estate Decarbonisation is designed to help track and accelerate progress towards ‘True Zero’ buildings
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How do we build the new houses the UK desperately needs – without compromising the path to Net Zero?
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The UK faces a complex and increasingly urgent housing challenge. Here are 15 charts that highlight some of the problems – from supply constraints to housing quality.
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