{"id":5993,"date":"2025-10-19T19:39:35","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T17:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positive-impacts.com\/?p=5993"},"modified":"2025-10-20T09:30:39","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T07:30:39","slug":"%f0%9f%8e%89-five-years-of-positive-impacts-science-based-strategic-and-growing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positive-impacts.com\/en\/%f0%9f%8e%89-five-years-of-positive-impacts-science-based-strategic-and-growing\/","title":{"rendered":"\ud83c\udf89 Five Years of Positive Impacts \u2014 Science-Based, Strategic, and Growing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Five years ago, we started Positive Impacts (PI) with the idea that sustainability should not be about \u201cfeel-good\u201d reporting \u2014 but about make-good management: measurable impacts, financial relevance, and strategic value creation.<\/p>\n

1. Quantifying What Matters: The PI Impact Accounting Framework<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Our Impact Accounting Framework<\/strong> enables organizations and investors to measure positive and negative real-world impacts<\/strong> across 14 indicators and six topics \u2014 all linked to science-based thresholds.
These thresholds define when a positive or negative impact becomes material for society, making it easier to evaluate their links to financial performance.<\/p>\n

We recently introduced \u23f3Climate Years Left<\/strong><\/a> \u2014 a KPI showing how many years of emissions budget remain if everyone emitted like a given company, portfolio, project, or product.
It translates complex data into a simple and intuitive metric: time left<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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We\u2019ll introduce our other KPIs \u2014 covering health, nature, social equity, and taxation<\/strong> \u2014 in the coming months.<\/p>\n

2. Building Defensible Materiality Skills<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Materiality has become one of the most contested topics in sustainability reporting.
Our Materiality Training for Managers<\/strong> helps participants cut through the noise \u2014 by connecting impact relevance<\/strong>, financial effects<\/strong>, and strategic decisions<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Participants learn how to:<\/p>\n