Industry initiatives

Trill Impact's commitments

Trill Impact participates in a number of global and local industry initiatives in our effort to reach our ambitious targets and demonstrate best practice within impact private investments. As the industry develops and evolves, we are committed to continuous improvement and will continue to use leading industry principles, frameworks and tools to test and develop our practices, collaborating with our investors, portfolio companies, industry peers and wider stakeholders.

Industry Principles

Operating Principles for Impact Management

Trill Impact AB has been a signatory of the Impact Principles since February 2020. The Impact Principles are a framework for the design and implementation of impact management systems, with a goal to ensure that impact considerations are integrated throughout the investment lifecycle. Signatories to the Impact Principles are impact investors and advisors who publicly demonstrate their commitment to implementing a global standard for managing investments for impact.

» See Trill Impact AB's latest disclosure statment

Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI)

Trill Impact AB has been a signatory of PRI since December 2019. The PRI is the world’s leading proponent of responsible investment and works to understand the investment implications of environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors. Its mission is also to support its international network of signatories in incorporating these factors into investment and ownership processes and decisions.

» See the executive summary of Trill Impact AB's latest PRI report

Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN)

The GIIN convenes impact investors to facilitate knowledge exchange, highlighting innovative investment approaches, building the evidence base for the industry and producing valuable tools and resources. The GIIN seeks to accelerate the industry's development through focused leadership and collective action.

Swedish National Advisory Board for Impact Investing

The Swedish National Advisory Board for Impact Investing is an open, not-for-profit membership association whose objective is to promote, stimulate and mobilize private, institutional and non-governmental funding of solutions to societal challenges.

UNDP SDG Impact Seal Implementation Working Group

The SDG Impact Standards are practices that the private equity industry can apply to help build a more sustainable, inclusive and resilient world. The Standards provide a common language and best-practice guidance for integrating impact management into business and investment practices and decision-making, with an eye towards positive and negative effects on people and the planet.

Impact Management Project (IMP)

The IMP provides a forum for building global consensus on how to measure, manage and report impacts. This consensus (“norms”) provides a common logic to help enterprises and investors understand their impacts on people and the planet, so that they can reduce the negative and increase the positive.  Trill Impact uses the IMP's 5 dimensions of impact in developing its impact thesis for each potential investment.

» See Trill Impact's IMP aligned assessment of Nordomatic

IRIS+

IRIS+ is the generally accepted system for measuring, managing and optimizing impact. IRIS+ assists Trill Impact to translate impact intentions into real impact results. Trill Impact uses the IRIS+ catalogue of impact metrics as a starting point when selecting impact KPIs for portfolio companies, acknowledging the need for standardised impact reporting.

Sustainability Accounting Standards Board

SASB Standards connect business and investors on the financial impacts of sustainability. Available for 77 industries, the Standards identify the subset of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues most relevant to financial performance in each industry. Trill Impact uses the SASB standards as input into selecting relevant ESG issues and KPIs measures.

Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)

GRI offers a comprehensive set of sustainability reporting standards. The GRI advances the practice of sustainability reporting and enabling businesses, investors, policymakers, and civil society to use this information to engage in dialogue and make decisions that support sustainable development. Portfolio companies use the GRI standards as input into selecting relevant ESG topics and metrics. 

Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD)

The Financial Stability Board created the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) to improve and increase reporting of climate-related financial information. The TCFD has developed a framework to help companies disclose climate-related risks and opportunities. Trill Impact commits to providing public reports that follow the TCFD climate-related financial disclosure recommendations  and also to promote TCFD reporting to portfolio companies. Trill Impact supports the Paris Agreement on climate change and aims to have its portfolio companies aligned with the Paris Agreement.

United Nations Global Compact

The UN Global Compact is a principle-based framework for businesses, stating ten principles in the areas of human rights, labor, the environment and anti-corruption. Trill Impact expects that portfolio companies will seek a systematic, best-practice approach to follow the principles.