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Research on calculating impact for corporates, start-ups, and investors, interview w. Rob Zochowski (International Foundation for Valuing Impacts) 🕵️

Research on calculating impact for corporates, start-ups, and investors, interview w. Rob Zochowski (International Foundation for Valuing Impacts) 🕵️

Update: 2025-08-04
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Key insights:

* Interview with Rob Zochowski, President & CEO at The International Foundation For Valuing Impacts (IFVI)

* Rob suggests investors and companies of all sizes (public and non-public) should increase their efforts to measure climate and social impact and put a dollar value on the impact - it’s the only way to make it comparable

* Ignoring social and environmental impacts is a hidden risk. In Rob’s words: "Equity holders own residual risk - so you'd better account for it."

* Impact can reveal hidden value. In IFVI pilots, companies found impact data uncovered growth opportunities and helped optimize their models

* Rob believes that we are moving into a world with impact accounting - Rob believes we’re leaving the “early adopter” phase — and entering the acceleration phase of impact accounting adoption

Agenda:

* 💡 Impact measurement vs management vs monetization

* ⚙️ How investors can help companies with impact monetization: Start small and build

* 🧠 Social vs. environmental impact: Can you really compare?

* 🚀 Adoption is accelerating

* 📬 What this means for you as an impact investor



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Research on calculating impact for corporates, start-ups, and investors, interview w. Rob Zochowski (International Foundation for Valuing Impacts) 🕵️

Research on calculating impact for corporates, start-ups, and investors, interview w. Rob Zochowski (International Foundation for Valuing Impacts) 🕵️

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