Most Transformative Sustainable
Finance Strategy of the Year

Description

This award is open to organisations that have developed an innovative strategy to drive sustainable finance and so deliver real world impact.  This can include a strategy for their financial organisation as a whole or for an element of its activities, including investment, engagement and advocacy.  It could be a strategy that involves partnership with others.  If it is for a part of the organisation’s own activities, then the organisation-wide strategy should not be misaligned with sustainable outcomes.  The strategy will have been developed and (at least in part) delivered between 2022 and 2024.

The judges are looking for strategies that have the capacity to create a fundamental change in the system that determines how capital flows I the economy.  There are many possible strategies that could be eligible but examples might include a new approach to capital allocation ; a new way of assessing the value of companies in a portfolio; a new way to report on climate or nature risk in a portfolio; or deployment of new types of financial instrument.   

The judges will assess the objectives and achievements of the strategy and must see evidence of how it has achieved (or has the potential to achieve) a change in capital allocation. They will also consider the degree of creativity and innovation applied.

Criteria

Judges will be looking for evidence of progress on the following points (weighting percentages in brackets):

• How the strategy is designed to deliver change and real world impacts (30%)

• Evidence of its success, with verifiable data to support the reach and impact (30%)

• Systems put in place to ensure the continuity of the strategy, including adaptation and learning (30%)

• The extent to which the strategy has also influenced practices outside the organisation (10%)

Any confidential data will be treated as such and only shared with the judging panel, all of whom will have signed NDAs.