{"id":43481,"date":"2025-05-02T17:42:54","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T21:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.greenmoney.com\/2025\/?p=43481"},"modified":"2025-08-04T11:23:55","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T15:23:55","slug":"sustainable-indigenous-finance-collaboration-for-innovation-to-be-launched-at-the-us-sif-annual-forum-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.greenmoney.com\/2025\/sustainable-indigenous-finance-collaboration-for-innovation-to-be-launched-at-the-us-sif-annual-forum-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Sustainable Indigenous Finance \u2018Collaboration for Innovation\u2019 to be launched at the US SIF Annual Forum"},"content":{"rendered":"
> Back To May\/June 2025 Issue<\/a><\/div>\n

The world is changing and so are the markets. US SIF is exploring new initiatives that will strategically position members with better risk-based analytics to navigate the increasing volatility and offer innovative collaborations with the diverse perspectives, creativity and investment acumen needed to identify new risks and opportunities within the finance markets in this rapidly changing world.<\/p>\n

The first US SIF Collaboration for Innovation<\/strong> will be launched at its Annual Forum in Washington DC<\/a> on June 27. Led by US SIF Board Member and Founder of First Peoples Worldwide, Rebecca Adamson, the collaboration will establish an investors and Indigenous Peoples\u2019 hub that combines investment acumen and academic rigor with a global Indigenous network for innovating Sustainable Indigenous Finance. The purpose of the Sustainable Indigenous Finance Collaboration is to provide practical analytics and evidence-based research (including quantitative and empirical evidence on Indigenous risks) and establish a safe creative space to translate Indigenous priorities (such as land rights, culture shelf determination, and FPIC), specifically through the lens of financial materiality.<\/p>\n

Financial Materiality and Indigenous Peoples<\/h2>\n

A new report by US SIF, First Peoples, and ImpactARC, Sustainable Indigenous Finance: Investors and Indigenous Peoples, <\/em>found that investors often overlook the potential adverse impacts on Indigenous peoples that can then result in significant business risks \u2014 from supply chain disruptions to land tenure disputes \u2014 and hence, affect financial performance. Indigenous Peoples\u2019 land constitutes 23% to 30% of the earth\u2019s surface and contains vast natural resources such as 80% of the biodiversity[1]<\/sup>, 50% of the inland waters, 36% of the large intact forests and vast amounts of the new transition minerals<\/a>\u00a0(over 50% of the lithium 70% of the nickel, copper)[2]<\/sup>. This reinforces the fact that Indigenous conflict isn\u2019t just about the extractive sector \u2014 it now spans new transition minerals, natural resources, ecoservices, and clean energy.<\/p>\n

Recent research by the Wharton ESG Initiative supports this thinking.\u00a0 Wharton found that Indigenous Peoples\u2019 rights \u2014 coupled with their natural assets \u2014 have been historically under-addressed by investors and are now impacting financial performance across the majority of sectors. The first-of-its-kind global research, titled \u2018ESG Material Credit Events and Credit Risks\u2019[3]<\/sup>, quantified material risk events for 1,444 projects operating on or near Indigenous lands and found that companies incur 500% higher risk events than those operating elsewhere. Moreover, individual projects had an increased risk from 3 to 66 times higher than other company projects. In a further study, Wharton tracked the correlation to Indigenous Peoples\u2019 conflict and potential material risk factors Research found that foreign direct investment (FDI) increases armed conflict across all sectors[4]<\/sup>.<\/strong> The meta-study looked at over 3,000 Indigenous conflicts and concluded that where both Indigenous lands and investments co-exist, an additional 6.7-armed conflict events can be expected in the following year.<\/p>\n

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