Memberships

Impax works collaboratively with our peers to support the expansion of sustainable finance. Here is a selection of our current memberships.*

• A Just Transition: Looking at challenges faced when moving to a more sustainable economy and why investors need to integrate a social dimension into their climate strategies.
• Asian Corporate Governance Association (ACGA): Focuses on collaborative engagement with companies and policymakers to improve governance structures and practices in Asia.
• Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP): An independent organisation holding the largest database of corporate climate change information in the world.
• Climate Action 100+: An investor-led initiative aimed at encouraging the world’s largest corporate greenhouse gas emitters to improve governance on climate change, emissions and climate-related financial disclosures.
• Council of Institutional Investors (CII): Promoting strong governance and shareholder rights standards at public companies.
• Defined Contribution Institutional Investment Association A non-profit association dedicated to enhancing the retirement security of America’s workers.
• Energy Transitions Commission: A global coalition of leaders from across the energy landscape committed to achieving net-zero emissions by mid-century.
• FAIRR: A collaborative investor network that raises awareness of the environmental, social and governance risks and opportunities brought about by industrialized livestock production.
• Financing a Just Transition Alliance: Identifies the role finance can play in connecting action on climate change with inclusive development pathways.
• Finance Sector Deforestation Action: Collaborative to unite organisations around a shared engagement approach to tackling deforestation and other climate and nature-related initiatives.
• Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN): The largest global community of impact investors (asset owners and asset managers) and service providers engaged in impact investing.
• Global ESG Benchmark for Real Assets (GRESB): Industry-led organisation that provides environmental, social and governance data to financial markets.
• Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC): A forum for collaboration on climate change for European investors.
• Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility: Coalition of institutional investors aiming to integrating social values into corporate and investor actions.
• International Corporate Governance Network (ICGN): A leading voice for the highest standards of corporate governance and investor stewardship world-wide.
• The Investing and Saving Alliance (TISA): A not-for-profit membership organization with a mission to improve the financial wellbeing of UK consumers and help shape the future of UK financial services industry.
• Investor Network on Climate Risk (INCR): Partners with investors worldwide to advance investment opportunities and reduce material risks posed by sustainability challenges such as global climate change and water scarcity.
• Investors Against Slavery and Trafficking, Asia Pacific (IAST APAC) Initiative: An investor-led, multistakeholder project to engage with companies in the Asia-Pacific region to promote effective action in finding, fixing and preventing modern slavery in operations and supply chains.
• Long-term Investors in People’s Health Initiative (LIPH): Giving investors the tools to improve health outcomes by sharing best practices and creating opportunities to collaborate on corporate engagement.
• Natural Capital Investment Alliance: Mobilising investment in Nature-based economic opportunities.
• Nature Action 100 (NA100): A global investor engagement initiative focused on driving greater corporate ambition and action to reverse nature and biodiversity loss.
• Net Zero Asset Managers Initiative: An international group of asset managers committed to supporting the goal of net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 or sooner.
• Plastic Solutions Investor Alliance (As You Sow): International coalition of investors that engage publicly traded consumer goods companies on the threat posted by plastic waste and pollution.
• Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI): Aims to help investors integrate ESG considerations into investment decision making and supports sharing best practice in active ownership.
• PRI Sustainable Stock Exchanges Working Group: A peer-to-peer learning platform for investors, regulators, and companies. Looking at enhancing corporate transparency, and ultimately performance, on ESG risks and encourage sustainable investment.
• Race at Work: Part of BITC Business in the Community, The Prince’s Responsible Business Network, this initiative seeks to accelerate change through five calls to action for organisations committed to improving equality of opportunity in the workplace.
• ShareAction Investor Decarbonization Initiative: Aims to bring together investors to accelerate corporate action on climate change
• Shareholder Rights Group: Association of investors that defends share owners’ rights to engage with public companies on governance and long-term value creation.
• Spring: A PRI stewardship initiative for nature, convening investors to use their influence to halt and reverse global biodiversity loss by 2030.
• Sustainable Investment Institute: A non-profit organisation conducting research and publishing reports on organized efforts to influence corporate behaviour on social and environmental issues.
• Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD): Develops voluntary, consistent climate-related financial risk disclosures for companies providing information to investors, lenders, insurers and other stakeholders.
• Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures: Member of TNFD Forum to help develop and deliver a risk management and disclosure framework reporting and acting on nature-related risks.
• Thirty Percent Coalition: A unique and groundbreaking national organization committed to having women, including women of color, hold 30 percent of board seats across public companies.
• UK Stewardship Code: Aims to enhance the quality of engagement between institutional investors and companies to help improve long-term returns to shareholders and the efficient exercise of governance responsibilities.
• UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association (UKSIF): Provides services and opportunities to align investment profitability with social and environmental responsibility.
• USSIF: A US based membership association promoting sustainable, responsible and impact investment.
• Women’s Empowerment Principles: The UN Women’s Empowerment Principles are a set of practical guidelines that businesses can use to promote gender equality in the workplace and the community.
• Women in Finance: Commitment by the UK’s HM Treasury to build a more balanced and fair industry, working to see gender balance at all levels across finance services firms.  

While Impax may consult with other market participants on certain engagement efforts, Impax unilaterally determines whether and to what extent to engage with other stakeholders and all of Impax’s investment decisions are independent and based on its own, unilateral strategy for maximizing return on investment.