Introduction
On November 3, 2021, the "Global Dialogue Series Webinars – A Community of Shared Destiny and Social Responsibility to Accelerate Sustainable Development" hosted by the United Nations Population Fund Office in China and the World Youth Innovation Center was successfully held. Ms. Wang Lan, Secretary General of the Social Value Investment Alliance, participated in and shared the theme through online video conference.
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From the perspectives of social enterprise responsibility and financial economy, this seminar explored China's actions and thoughts on achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
The professionals who participated in this workshop and shared the topics were:
Mr. Zhang Peng, Managing Partner of Ucommune Workshop
Mr. Tang Quexin, General Manager of ByteDance Social Responsibility Products
Ms. Duan Xiaolei, head of amazon cloud technology start-up ecosystem and strategic cooperation with investment institutions
Ms. Wang Lan, Secretary General of the Social Value Investment Alliance
Ms. Congratulatory Letter from the United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation
The following is a condensed compilation of ms. Wang Lan's speech:
What is the Social Investment Alliance?
Good evening, everyone, and thank you for the invitation. Thank you for your interest in a new nonprofit organization and for sharing our practices on behalf of the organization. Jointly initiated by more than 50 institutions and incorporated in Shenzhen in 2016, the Social Value Investment Alliance (hereinafter referred to as the Social Value Investment Alliance) is the first new international public welfare platform focusing on sustainable development finance in China, and won the "5A Level Social Organization" certification in 2020. In order to realize the mission and vision of "practicing righteousness and profit, and investing in a better future" and promote the financial power to help achieve the sustainable development goals, the Social Investment Alliance has carried out specific work from the three dimensions of standard research and development, platform construction and concept advocacy.
Standard R&D:
Quantitative evaluation system for sustainable development value
In terms of standard research and development, the Social Investment Alliance has built a quantitative evaluation system for sustainable development value. The core of this system is to consider the comprehensive economic, social and environmental value created by the organization from the three aspects of driving force, innovation and transformation force.
At present, the "Yili 99" project for listed companies has received a good response in the market. In 2020, the "Bosera CSI Sustainable Development 100 ETF" cooperated by the Social Investment Alliance and Bosera Fund was listed and traded on the Shanghai Stock Exchange. Up to now, the Social Investment Alliance has accumulated 9 years of data on ESG by CSI 300 listed companies, which is inseparable from the support of experts and volunteer teams.
In addition, the social investment alliance also has a sustainable development value assessment for start-up projects, the current part of the evaluation mainly serves the project screening and evaluation of the social investment alliance social innovation acceleration camp, in the future we will also upgrade and optimize it, I hope that the sustainable development value evaluation criteria of start-up projects can also truly achieve common benefit.
Platform Construction:
Gather investors and investment targets that promote sustainable development
The Social Investment Alliance and all walks of life jointly launched the Social Innovation Acceleration Camp, the Investment Practice Room and the SDG Wisdom Sharing Meeting to build a multi-dimensional platform focusing on promoting sustainable development of investors and investment targets.
Social innovation acceleration camp
The first is the Social Innovation Acceleration Camp, which is a key project launched by us to empower early entrepreneurs in the field of sustainable development and link social start-up enterprises and investors who focus on solving social problems.
Since 2018, the IIT has been successfully held for 4 consecutive years. In 2018, we took you to Singularity University, hoping that entrepreneurs can pay attention to the solution of social problems empowered by science and technology. In 2021, under the guidance of the Shenzhen Municipal Bureau of Ecology and Environment, we jointly held the shenzhen Institute of Sustainable Development to successfully hold the first entrepreneurship challenge focusing on "carbon neutrality". In this competition, we have received public welfare support from many experts, production and investment partners, incubation partners, about 70 experts have contributed 300 hours of public welfare time, more than 30 investors have participated in the screening and comments of the whole competition, and McKinsey, Landsea Real Estate, Kangbao Electric Appliances, Hyundai Motor and other industrial partners have provided public welfare consultation and landing scenarios for the participating projects. The competition received more than 200 project entries, and the last 18 projects entered the finals, with a cumulative communication volume of more than 3 million.
In the selection of projects of the Social Innovation Acceleration Camp, the Social Investment Alliance focuses more on projects that are committed to solving social problems, staged in the Angel Round-A Round, and have been verified by a certain market, and the project's model or specific products and services are enabled by science and technology, such as Audiobook Technology, which is committed to improving the communication status of hearing impaired groups through artificial intelligence technology, which is our past accelerated camp empowerment project.
It is expected that in December this year, the Social Investment Alliance will also hold an offline acceleration camp, at which time I hope to have the opportunity to invite everyone to participate in the project and help growth as a public welfare think tank. In March 2022, the IIT will also launch a new year's acceleration camp. Based on the accumulation of 4 years, we have also shifted from a broad range of fields to focus, and in the future, we will focus more on the three major sectors of carbon neutrality, accessibility and pension.
Investment practice room
In order to realize the concept of advocating investors, we launched the investment practice room project in 2018 and upgraded the investment practice room in 2020.
Under the guidance of the Shenzhen Municipal Financial Bureau, the ESIG, together with the China Development Research Foundation, the China Responsible Investment Forum and the National Institute of Development Studies of Peking University, jointly launched the ESG Investment Frontier Forum. The forum is held once a month in Shenzhen and Beijing, and has been held for 13 sessions so far, inviting the government, financial institutions, third-party organizations, listed companies and research institutions to participate together, with a total of more than 1,000 participants and nearly 5 million people.
· SDG Smart Club
In order to promote exchanges between experts, in April 2020, the Social Investment Alliance launched an internal sharing activity for experts and institutional members, the SDG Wisdom Sharing Club, which shared and exchanged online, with more than 40 experts participating and nearly 200 hours of public welfare time. The IIT has also set up a mechanism of time bank and SDG public welfare think tank, and the public welfare contribution time of experts can be used to exchange the rights and interests of the social investment alliance.
Sustainable Development Summit Forum
ESIG jointly holds the Sustainable Development Summit Forum with Caijing Magazine every year, and provides research support for the Evergreen Award of Caijing Magazine to discover and advocate more outstanding ESG practice cases.
Philosophy Advocate:
Enhance the comprehensive value of economy, society and environment
The IUC has also done a lot of basic ESG research, especially when the ESG concept was relatively unfamiliar to the market at the beginning. Together with undp, UNICEF, China Securities And Asset Management Association, Shenzhen Municipal Financial Office and other institutions, we have done a lot of joint research. In 2020, together with the China Development Research Foundation, we conducted a study on ESG policies and regulations in mainstream economies around the world, which will be published in the form of books in the future.
In order to better link experts from all walks of life in politics, commerce, society and academia, the Social Investment Alliance also launched the "Sustainable Development Financial Innovation Experiment" project with the National Development Research Institute of Peking University, and jointly compiled the "Frontiers of Sustainable Development Finance", which is published once a month to promote synchronously at home and abroad in the form of Chinese and English, and the content brings together products, practices and research insights in global sustainable development finance.
In addition, the Social Investment Alliance has released the "Sustainable Development Value Assessment Report of A-share Listed Companies - Discovering China's "Yili 99" for four consecutive years, and won the "China Soft Science Award - Special Award" this year.
In order to better realize the concept of advocacy, the Social Investment Alliance has built a relatively complete communication channel in the form of self-media + professional media combination. The service number and social innovation number of the Social Investment Alliance, including the official website at home and abroad, are gradually becoming the landmark content output position in the field of sustainable development finance.
And in the process, the Social Investment Alliance has gradually established an international cooperation network. IUC has been invited to participate in international conferences such as the United Nations General Assembly, the World Economic Forum and the GSG Global Impact Investment Summit on several occasions to promote the achievements and opportunities of China's sustainable development finance to the world.
epilogue
From 2016 to the present, we can see many welcome changes in the field of sustainable development. More and more enterprises contribute to society with their main business and core capabilities; more and more enterprises take into account the comprehensive value of economy, environment and society in their development; more and more investors pay attention to social problem solving and the achievement of sustainable development goals when screening investment targets; and more and more young people are willing to join new public welfare organizations such as the Social Investment Alliance. It is expected that in the future, from policy to market, more forces can be injected to jointly promote the realization of the 17 sustainable development goals.
Today's time is very limited, I would like to share with you some of the practices of the Social Investment Alliance in recent years, and welcome your future exchanges and cooperation. We sincerely invite everyone to "practice righteousness and profit together, and work together to invest in a better future".
Wang Lan, Secretary-General of the United Nations Investment Alliance, attended the United Nations Population Fund Global Dialogue Series of Webinars
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