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🚀 Exciting days for #Impact #Finance in #Luxembourg Tuesday I had the privilege of attending on behalf of Cerise+SPTF to the second edition of the Impact Finance Forum Luxembourg, organised by ICFA - International Climate Finance Accelerator. ICFA, and the recently launched ISFA - International Social Finance Accelerator are designed to support emerging fund managers who tackle the world's most pressing climate and social challenges with financial backing and technical assistance, from coaching to training workshops. The programs are crucial for incubating new ideas and fuelling the growth of climate and social impact finance. 💡 Key highlights 👉 Minister Gilles Roth emphasised the urgency of accelerating funding to achieve the SDGs, with Luxembourg’s financial center uniquely positioned to develop innovative solutions like blended finance 👉 A 10-Point Action Plan launched earlier this year outlines concrete steps to make this happen. 🚀 At Cerise+SPTF, we take pride in our clear criteria and indicators to ensure impact investing doesn't become just another marketing buzzword. For the past 20 years, Cerise + SPTF has been at the forefront of creating standards for transparent evaluation and reporting in inclusive finance 👉 https://lnkd.in/e-_AJVDP Steven Evers, CEO of Triple Jump, addressed the challenges of the evolving regulatory frameworks related to impact measurement and reporting. He expressed the hope that SFDR 2.0 will provide a balanced reporting framework that levels the playing field. Currently, one of Triple Jump's highest impact funds must register as Article 8 under SFDR because of challenges in data collection in the Global South. "We absolutely need to advocate for this permanently, by sharing our experience with implementing regulation and contribute to develop better frameworks that take into consideration the specificities of the Global South!" This is exactly why Cerise + SPTF has been working tirelessly for the past two years—to share the deep experience our sector has gained in the Global South, advocating for regulations and taxonomies that are both clear and practical for real-world implementation as part of our Social Investors Working Group 👀 Join us https://lnkd.in/gBy25Be #SocialImpact #InclusiveFinance #ImpactInvesting #BlendedFinance #SFDR