Social Value Blog
How Valuation in the Boardroom can help achieve the SDGs.
Throughout the Social Value Matters 2021, several key themes emerged including the importance of accountability, the need to include the voices of stakeholders in the decision-making process, the urgency of change, and the vital inclusion of young people in the transformation we need. These themes were particularly pronounced in the session “Valuation in the Boardroom” - a session supported by the Value Accounting Network. Find out more…
Announcing The Value Accounting Network
We are thrilled to be part of the newly-formed Value Accounting Network bringing together leading organisations to advance the role of value accounting in decision-making, governance, and disclosure.
“I’m delighted SVI will be working with other fantastic organisations who share our mission of changing the way the world accounts for value. I hope this initiative leads to greater collaboration, convergence and opportunities for us all to develop value accounting.”
Ben Carpenter, CEO Social Value International
World Wildlife Day: Can Putting A Value On Nature That Goes Far Beyond Money Protect People And Planet?
The natural world around us underpins our economy, our society, our very existence. It provides us with the water we drink, the food we eat, the air we breathe, and forms the basis of goods and services we depend on for our health, happiness and wellbeing.
The world’s natural assets or ‘natural capital’ are also hugely important to the economy – if you add them all up, the total economic value of these benefits is phenomenal, at least US$125 trillion every year. Yet to truly understand the value of nature we need to look beyond the economic value, and consider the intrinsic value of nature under a broader definition of social and environmental value…
Valuable? A Tale Of Two Credit Unions
International Credit Union Day is an annual celebration of the credit union movement’s hard work and notable achievements. The theme for this year is ‘inspiring hope for a global community’. This article, co-written by social value practitioners, compares and contrasts the impact that two credit unions in two countries have had on people’s lives.
It Is All Connected: Let’s Value What Matters
The below post is a crosspost from SIMNA’s website. You can find the original, penned by Simon Faivel, Chair of the Social Value International Board here.