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This week's glossaries to help understanding for Impact Investing.
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SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) :

The UN’s Sustainable Development Goals are a blueprint for achieving a better and more sustainable future for all. They address the global challenges we face, including those related to poverty, inequality, climate, environmental degradation, and peace and justice. The goals interconnect, and in order to leave no one behind, it is important that we achieve each goal, and each target within each goal, by 2030.

Impact Investing:

Investments made in companies, organizations, vehicles and funds intended to achieve measurable positive social, economic and environmental impacts coupled with financial returns.

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