On 27 January 2009 we are holding our first AGM before our January speaker event.  Come and have your say.  Become a Net Impact Member here and make sure you tick the box on the application to affiliate to the London Chapter to ensure you have voting rights. Want to join our team? We’re seeking new [...]

On behalf of the London Net Impact Professional Chapter and the Responsible Business Club at London Business School, we are pleased to invite you to our next event, where we will hear from Jed Emerson. His concept of Blended Value Investing challenges traditional notions of value and argues that organisations of all kinds should pursue [...]

The debate is largely over. Climate change is a threat to our global “business as usual”, but it’s business that needs to deliver the solutions. Fiscal incentives and public sector directives to change the behaviour of industries and private citizens – such as the UK’s Renewables Obligation or Spain’s Renewable Energy Plan – are creating [...]

Daniela Barone Soares is Chief Executive of the Impetus Trust. Impetus is a venture philanthropy organisation targeting strategic finance and expertise at charities to enable them to achieve a high social return on investment. Impetus has raised £3.5m in its first fund.

Francis Sullivan is climate change advisor to the board of HSBC. He has a BA (Hons) in Agriculture and Forest Sciences and an MSc in Forestry from Oxford University. He joined WWF-UK in 1987. During the early 1990s Francis worked on forest policy for WWF-UK. In 1995 he joined WWF International to direct the Forests [...]

An event in partnership with the Harvard Business School Alumni Club of London David Blood will talk about how the interests of shareholders, over time, will be best served by companies that maximize their financial performance by strategically managing their economic, social, environmental and ethical performance. A cocktail reception will follow.