The positive impact that would not have occurred without the investment. Real Estate impact investment strategies may ensure additionality by creating additional affordable housing ...

An investor’s intention to have a positive social or environmental impact through investments is essential to impact investing. These impacts are defined as part of the strat ...

Affordable housing refers to housing units that are affordable to buy or rent by the low-income section of a society (for example, whose income is below median household income). A ...

The European Commission defines 'social impact' as the reflection of  social outcomes as measurements, both long-term and short-term, adjusted for the effects achieved ...

Carbon emissions trading (also known as cap and trade) is a market-based approach used to control pollution by providing economic incentives for achieving reductions in the emissio ...

A feed-in-tariff is a policy mechanism designed to encourage the adoption of renewable energy sources.

The method by which waste is treated or disposed, including composting, re-use, recycling, recovery, incineration, landfill, deep well injection, and on-site storage.

The amount of water used per unit of an appropriate denominator (e.g. floor area, persons).

Fugitive emissions are emissions of gases or vapours from pressurised equipment such as air conditioning due to leaks and various other unintended or irregular releases of gases.

Indirect GHG emissions are those that are a result of the activities of the fund, but that occur at sources owned or controlled by another entity. Indirect emission sources are cla ...