
The Earth Dividend® system provides an annual measure of an investment’s Sustainable Development impact.
The 5 categories of ESG themes that the Earth Dividend is centred around feed into 30 wider indicators which can be mapped to the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Whilst the development of the Earth Dividend predates the launch of the SDGs, it has a natural fit with the latter in impact terms.
The Earth Dividend model comprises a scorecard, based upon net Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) impacts and benefits. It has been developed by Earth Capital’s (EC) in-house Sustainable Development specialists following review of international global standards and published approaches to the assessment, reporting and assurance of ESG issues and performance.
Our expert team can work with every client company to identify improvements in each area where they add value and make commercial sense. The plan targets annual improvements in the business’s contribution to sustainable development with the intention of enhancing the underlying commercial performance of the company and help to maximise value on future exit. The Earth Dividend model uniquely enables a holistic understanding of the risk and impact of Sustainable Development; an understanding of where investments make a positive or negative impact; and, identifies those areas where a business may be made more resilient and from where more value can be extracted.
