In addition to verifying its commercial viability, each financial product listed on the platform first goes through a plausibility check on its impact on the SDGs. For this, we have been able to attract the sustainability rating agency imug | rating from Hannover as a partner, which is recognized by investors. In addition, a more comprehensive imug impact rating can be commissioned, in which a quantitative and qualitative impact assessment of individual SDGs takes place with explicit consideration of conflicting targets and risk areas.

Immediately after the financial product has been added to the database, the SDG criteria are compared automatically with SDG requirements filed by registered investors in the database. Only those investors who are interested in investing in an SDG topic addressed by the new financial product will be informed about the new project.

In September 2015, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. This resolution sets out the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (“SDGs”).

The realisation of these Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 at the latest requires measures in different areas of the world that are crucial for humanity and its planet. UNCTAD estimates that 2.5 trillion USD per annum in private investments is required to achieve the goals. The successful implementation of the SDGs is therefore largely dependent on the following two factors:

• Entrepreneurial action: systematic orientation of projects and financial products to the SDGs.
• Availability of financial resources: investments by private and institutional investors will make a decisive contribution here.