Impact transparency, integrity and harmonisation

….are the three key things required to finance a better world. In 2021, the UK government, during its presidency of the G7, established the Impact Taskforce (ITF). The ITF is a private-sector-led independent body partly funded by the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO). It was created to develop solutions for a sustainable and inclusive recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic crisis and to “ensure just transitions that promote sustainable development and eradication of poverty, and the creation of decent work”.1 In short, we cannot disconnect the social from the environmental if we are to take people with us and sustain the political will that long-term investment requires. The G7 is an i