Category Archives: Impact

Ensuring the Local Acceptance of Industrial Projects. Operating instructions

A range of industrial projects can contribute to local development, decarbonization and inclusive growth. Their acceptability is often no less complicated than others. Here’s an operating brief.

A Data Science Approach To Process Data Collected From Vulnerable Populations: A Case Study Of Impact Measurement Among Small-scale Farmers

Collecting and analyzing data on and from vulnerable populations is a black hole today, in a world focused on Big Data and the growing use of Artificial Intelligence. A glaring example of this paradox is the statistical understanding of the 600 million farms under 2 Ha, on which a good quarter of humanity depends. 

What you Need to Know to Comply With The German Supply Chain Act

Learn how to comply with the German Supply Chain Act bringing additional human rights and environmental compliance in the supply chain world.

What Does it Mean for Investors to “Do No Significant Harm” When Investing?

Ksapa is leading a working group of 12 international investment funds and investment companies to strengthen their consideration of human rights issues. An opportunity to come back and clarify the EU’s DNSH principle. Demonstrating that investments “do no significant harm” is a cornerstone of the EU’s sustainable finance framework. Learn in practice how to apply this principle in this article.

Leveraging Impact Linked Finance to Drive the Transition of Agricultural Supply Chains

Ksapa recently organized a webinar presenting a new class of financial instruments – impact linked finance – and their potential to accelerate the transition of agricultural supply chains towards regenerative agriculture. The need to transform commodity supply chains becomes ever more pressing with the increasing challenges – demographics, inequalities, climate change, soils exhaustion… – that […]

Framing Business Priorities for Human Rights in 2023

This article highlights how human rights have become an integral part of the discussion amongst policymakers and business leaders and how 2023 is a turning point.  

Many factors are driving businesses towards implementing human rights policies and holding them accountable by making such commitments public. These developments will not be without litigation and financial and reputational consequences.

Complying with the new EU Directive on Zero Deforestation

As part of the European Green Deal, an agreement was finally announced in December 2022 between the European Council and the EU Parliament on an anti-deforestation directive, aimed at eliminating the import or processing of products produced from deforestation.

3 Suggestions to Start 2023 With Optimism Working With Ksapa

Let’s start the year 2023 with optimism; because 2022 has finally delivered its share of good surprises, and we should appreciate the glass half full rather than criticize the glass half empty.