Jérôme Tagger

Partner and Co-founder, WhiteLabel Impact; Chief Executive Officer, Preventable Surprises

Jerome is a Partner at WhiteLabel Impact and the CEO of Preventable Surprises, a think tank sparking difficult conversations about responsible finance. He was a founding COO of the Principles for Responsible Investment, an executive at the Global Impact Investing Network, Head of Research at Eurosif, and Chief Revenue Officer at ImpactAlpha. He is an advisor to investors, businesses and advocacy organizations in social impact and sustainable finance.

Articles by Jérôme Tagger

1. Wrestling with hypernumbers

   Jérôme Tagger

   Climate — Global

   The promise of trillion-dollar sustainable finance initiatives rests on a triple fallacy: that we can make sense of them, that they are a measure of money that is available to finance or support climate-related causes, and that someone has structured and organized control over these amounts. It’s time to accept their extremely limited utility and move on

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   16 November 2023

   SDGs: 7 12 13 17

   

2. Are current ESG ratings an effective way to guide SDG impact?

   Jérôme Tagger

   Financing — Global

   ESG ratings are imperfect measures of a company’s exposure to environmental, social, and governance risk, and they often ignore the impact that companies have on society. Complete redesign might help, but is that possible?

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   20 May 2022

   SDGs: 8 9 12 13 17