Sir Ronald Cohen
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- Milken Institute1h 8m
The Impact Revolution: From Sustainable Development Goals to Solutions
Glenn, Sir Ronald Cohen, Eugene Kendall, Bhaskar, Alex Wayne
Facing a $2.5 trillion annual financing gap and a global economic contraction caused by the pandemic, experts at this event proposed leveraging impact-weighted accounting and blended finance to mobilize the estimated $32 trillion in private capital required for the Sustainable Development Goals. Leaders including Sir Ronald Cohen and representatives from the Syngenta Foundation detailed strategies to quantify corporate social and environmental costs through Harvard Business School's Impact Weighted Accounts while scaling smallholder agriculture via the Agripreneur model and digital de-risking tools. The consensus emerged that governments must mandate impact transparency to bridge the financing divide, aligning the "triple helix" of risk, reward, and impact to transform profit and purpose from mutually exclusive goals into a unified growth engine.
- Milken Institute1h 4m
The Impact Revolution - Conference Call Series
Glenn Yago, Sir Ronald Cohen, René Karsenti, Julie Monaco, Cynthia Muller
The panel outlines a financial paradigm shift where over $30 trillion in capital now integrates measurable social and environmental impact alongside traditional risk and return metrics. To prevent information asymmetries reminiscent of the 1929 crash, speakers argue for mandatory "impact-weighted accounts" similar to GAAP, citing initiatives by the Harvard Business School and the Network for Greening the Financial System. Furthermore, public-private partnerships are scaling blended finance models through standardized instruments like sustainability-linked bonds, with projections warning that failing to address racial equity could cost the U.S. $70 trillion by 2050.