Prime’s Early Climate Infrastructure Research Featured by MIT Sloan School of Management

Prime’s early climate infrastructure research was featured in a MIT Sloan School of Management article by Betsy Vereckey entitled, Why impact investors are embracing systems change. Vereckey writes:

Just a few decades ago, impact investing existed mainly on the fringes. Now it’s a global market estimated at $30.3 trillion, and it isn’t unusual for investors to want to buy shares of companies that are making progress on environment, social, or governance issues.

It’s a start, but investors who want to generate lasting change need to do more than invest in single companies, said Alban Yau, a graduate research assistant in the MIT Sloan Sustainability Initiative.

Currently, impact investing focuses primarily on supporting technologies or companies individually, which creates an isolated impact. “But the challenges we face today are complex and systemic, with interconnected social and technical factors,” Yau said.

What’s needed is systemic investing — a new approach that embraces systems transformation, deploys capital with a broader intent, and replaces a project-by-project mentality with new methodologies, structures, capabilities, and decision-making frameworks.

To read the full article, please visit MIT Sloan School of Management.