Green Climate, Impact Investing, and the Need to Make a Better World

The world as we know it is changing. It is becoming more apparent that there is a switch of the guard in just about every industry.

 Transportation is moving from fuel-consuming vehicles to electric cars, and money is changing from paper and minted coins to cryptocurrencies and digital payments. At the same time, the investing space is moving just the same.

 Instead of just focusing on the money, Green Climate are allowing investors to also have a positive impact on the world. Amongst other things, they’re showing that it’s no longer just the bottom line.

 A Noticeable Shift

 Over the years, investors have been taught and made to believe that the most important thing for them to consider is profitability. Moves can’t be made unless they’ve been vetted to make money and deliver outsized returns for investors.

 But, there’s a changing of the guard here. More companies have stepped out and challenged the mold, only making investments in industries and companies that they believe will be impactful to the environment. Interestingly, these investments don’t have to be “planet over profit” – a lot of them remain profit-focused, but the move to create a better world remains prominent.

 In 2020, data shows that investors plunged about four times more cash into impact investing initiatives and funds than they did in 2019. At the same time, dedicated funds for impact investments have grown significantly in the past few years – moving from $502 billion in assets under management for 2019 to over $700 billion last year.

 What Qualifies as Impact Investments

 According to the Global Impact Investing Network, impact investments are those made to generate positive and measurable impacts on the environment and social space, while also offering sizable returns on investments for investors. This means that impact investments take the conventional investment route, but combine that with a desire to help the environment or other people.

 Interestingly, experts have laid out several criteria that need to be met when considering impact investing. For one, the investors themselves will need to intend the impact they seek. They need to state the outcomes that they hope to pursue through the investments and understand those – or what – that stand to benefit from the outcomes.

 Investors will also need to participate in the impact. They should have a credible narrative about the impact that their investments will have as well as the outcomes they intend to achieve. In many ways, investors can offer both financial and non-financial support as they see fit.

 Lastly, the investment will have to be measurable. Investors are in charge of setting up a system where intent and contribution can be linked to measurable improvements in environmental and social outcomes.

 Green Climate: The Ideal Impact Investment Play

 One of the most interesting impact investments today has been Green Climate. Here, you have a platform that uses blockchain technology to improve the environment and bolster environmental conservation efforts across the world.

 At the heart of Green Climates operation is its token – WGC.it is already available on several top exchanges, so investors can purchase it and hold it as a part of a balanced portfolio. Whenever WGC is purchased, proceeds from that sale go to several environmental conservation efforts. These include tree planting initiatives across the world and so many more.

 Green CLimate also addresses one of the most pressing issues that are facing the environmental industry right now – accountability. The project is built on its separate blockchain, and proceeds from WGC sales will be used to fund these projects. Even better, all logs and transactions are recorded on Green Climate’s blockchain. So, investors know where their money is going and how they are making an impact.

 At the same time, investors get to benefit as WGC’s price continues to grow. Tokens can be bought and held, or you could trade them just as you would trade any other cryptocurrency like Bitcoin and QDX.

 At the end of the day, Green CLimate gives investors the best of both worlds – they get to see that their money is making a positive impact on the world, and they can make actual money with the WGC tokens. Unlike traditional coins, WGC doesn’t have any detrimental effect on resources or the environment. It is entirely clean, and the project is fixated on conservation.

 A Better World is Possible

 Impact investing provides a change from the norm. It challenges decades-old conceptions about the investing and financial space, which claim that only philanthropic donations and charitable activities should focus on environmental and social issues.

 Over the years, the wealthy – and, really everyone among us – have treated environmental and social issues as back thoughts. They’ve viewed these initiatives as things that they could easily come back to after they’ve made money. Their primary focus has been on achieving financial returns through their market activities, then using these returns to donate to causes that matter.

 With impact investing, it’s become obvious that this perception isn’t necessarily true. Environmental and social causes can be the market activities that bring profits to investors. Impact investing also offers feasible and diverse opportunities for investors to grow their environmental and social causes while still getting financial returns and growing their portfolios.

 It’s the perfect win-win situation. You’re making a change and still making money.

 Already, we’re seeing different types of investors coming into the growing market for impact investments. Many of these investors are motivated by different things, including:

 Diverse Investment Opportunities:

Financial advisors, banking institutions, wealth managers, and others in the financial space understand that there’s an opportunity to diversify the pool of investment opportunities available to their clients. Anyone interested in environmental and/or social causes can now do so, using these institutions as gateways.

 More Assets: 

Family foundations, charities, and other institutions can leverage the opportunity to get more assets to advance their environmental and social objectives while still maintaining the growth of their funds and endowments.

 Financial Viability: 

Governments, development organizations, and others can also offer private investors with proof that these environmental and social investments are viable, thus attracting investments.

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