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Intentionality – Explicitly targeting specific social or environmental outcomes, such as the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); Art and artists draw attention to the issues and open conversations about aspects of the problems the world is facing. I think interesting visual work remains in peoples’ minds and creates an emotional response that equally stays with them. This is how artists who choose to advocate and campaign can connect with people in a way that other forms of information have not. The guide also introduces the Tideline Framework for Impact Labeling, which compares and contrasts different approaches to sustainable investing according to the degree to which those investment approaches integrate three core pillars of impact investing: Child-lens Investing (CLI) is an approach to sustainable investing in which investors intentionally consider child-related factors to advance positive child outcomes while minimizing child harm. CLI weaves together best practices from the ESG and impact investing ecosystems to form a holistic approach to sustainable investing that honors the diverse conditions needed to facilitate a good childhood. Because childhood is a powerful engine of equity, prosperity, and possibility, CLI approaches benefit both children and everyone around them. The BlueMark team has designed proprietary methodologies for evaluating how each of the three key components of an investor’s impact management process—impact mandates, impact management practices, and impact reporting—are aligned with industry standards like OPIM, Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), Impact Management Project (IMP), the Global Impact Investing Network’s (GIIN) IRIS+, UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and others.

Within the guide, Tideline explains why the impact investment label should be reserved for funds and strategies that combine high degrees of Intentionality, Contribution, and Measurement, although the framework recognizes that a larger universe of products can rightly claim to be “impact-focused.” The framework is designed to show how all sustainable investment strategies incorporate elements of Intentionality, Contribution, and Measurement, and how by analyzing the levels of each, investors are able to consistently and accurately differentiate between impact investing, thematic investing, and ESG-integrated investments. I think engaging the public on issues of climate change should be done with a light touch, always maintaining a sense of hope. The climate movement can suffer from fatigue and burnout so the arts should strive to counteract that is some way. In a small sand-island in the North Sea, a tiny figure filmed from a drone walks in ever decreasing circles around the tightening perimeter of the shore. As the tide comes in and eats away at the sliver of land, so it and the figure’s room for manoeuvre reduces and ultimately disappears, vanishing under the inevitable waves. Like other works in the show, Simon Faithfull’s Going Nowhere 1.5 brings humour and absurdity to bear on a situation which can seem hopeless and beyond our understanding.

The Tideline team is proud to highlight the publication of the Child-Lens Private Equity & Debt Investor Toolkit – released last week to the market as a practical tool for implementing the Child-Lens Investing Framework (CLIF) published in October. Q. What is the inspiration behind your work in Tideline and how does it sit within the context of your work? In 2018, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) recognized the need to mobilize private capital for the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and reached out to Tideline to help identify catalytic ways to accelerate investment flows. Tideline led UNDP through an iterative design process that involved interviews with a broad range of investors and active engagement with UNDP bureaus and country offices around the world to better understand the key barriers that investors face when trying to allocate capital to the SDGs. Q. What is the inspiration behind your work in Tideline and how does sit within the context of your work?

A tideline refers to where two currents in the ocean converge. Driftwood, floating seaweed, foam, and other floating debris may accumulate, forming sinuous lines called tidelines (although they generally have nothing to do with the tide).Tideline is a specialist consultant for the impact investing industry providing expert, tailored and actionable advice to clients developing impact investment strategies, products and solutions. Learn more at www.Tideline.com. The same observations can be made about environmental pollution. By way of example, look at what we do in this country to all our rivers, where untreated sewage is dumped every day, despite laws and regulations. Fresh from the launch of Corpus Maris I, commissioned for this year’s Sydney Biennale, and adopting a reduced footprint approach to making that is being supported locally by Messums Creative, Julia Lohmann fabricated a series of seaweed sculptures for the gallery in Wiltshire in March. A long-time champion of kelp as a material for reimagining living with our resources, Lohmann’s luminous structures suggest new propositions for sustainable creative practice. ‘Every species has an equal right to life on this planet. We can use the same human ingenuity that has led to the climate crisis we are facing now… to protect and regenerate the ecosystem that sustains us.’ We are thrilled to see both the CLIF and Toolkit come to life, and look forward to seeing CLI continue to be adopted by investors across the market.

Congratulations to the UNICEF and UNICEF USA teams on their release of the Child-Lens Investing Framework! Tideline is proud to have worked alongside UNICEF and UNICEF USA in the development of this framework, introducing the concept of child-lens investing to the market. The aim of Lifelines is for the public to become as easily familiar with the location and shape of coral reefs as they are with the shape of continents. I am seeking to create a sea-change in people’s thinking, where out of sight is no longer out of mind, and to pull focus to life below the water and our connection to and dependence on healthy oceans. At the centre of a programme devoted to rethinking our relationship with the environment is Messums’ 13th century tithe barn. The largest in the country, the barn gallery becomes a turbine hall for the imagination this summer starting with Tideline, a group exhibition running from 14 May – 3 July 2022.I wanted the sculpture to be a playful yet beautiful reminder of climate change and the purpose of these forms, and what our future will be like if we don’t take action now to prevent it. I started looking at sea defences within my work in 2017, as I was interested in their varying geometric shapes. These huge man-made shapes protect the land we walk on from the ever-encroaching expanses of sea. They seem so alien and out of place in their natural setting. Tideline’s ‘Framework for Impact Labeling’ helps investors communicate their approach to sustainable investing based on the degree to which they integrate Intentionality, Contribution, and Measurement into their investment process Impact verification came to the forefront in April 2019 with the introduction of the Operating Principles for Impact Management (“OPIM” or the “Impact Principles”), led by the International Finance Corporation (“IFC”) and now featuring a growing group of more than 100 signatories dedicated to “establishing a common discipline around the management of investments for impact.” One of these Principles—Principle 9—specifically requires signatories to publicly disclose and independently verify their alignment with the Principles on a regular basis.

No one cares for what they don’t know about and can’t see, so in understanding human nature, you can find a way to open them up to things that may not be local and in their orbit. I seek to present unique pieces of art that reach an audience, and promote conversations about how they can get involved now that they are thinking and talking about the issues.Going Nowhere 1.5’ is the latest instalment in an accidental trilogy of ‘Going Nowhere’ films that now spans 25 years. The idea for ‘Going Nowhere 1.5’ came from being fascinated by ‘Doggerland’– a drowned world in the North Sea that used to link Europe and the British Isles and whose remains now form the entirely submerged ‘Dogger Bank’. Shot in the North Sea off the coast of Norfolk, the film depicts a figure walking around the perimeter of an intertidal island as it is slowly eaten away by the rising tide. As with all the Going Nowhere films the figure seems to be caught in an absurd and Sisyphean task – always striding forwards, but to what aim remains unclear. In ‘Going Nowhere 1.5’ the figure could perhaps be seen as the last ‘Doggerlander’. BlueMark provides independent impact verification services for investors and companies. The services are designed to strengthen confidence in the achievement of stated impact goals through the verification of impact mandates, impact management practices, and impact reporting against established industry standards. Learn more at www.BlueMarkTideline.com. Lisa Jewell has called it ‘Enthralling and Addictive’ and Jenny Quintana (author of ‘The Missing Girl’) ‘A truly compelling story that captures exactly the complexity of friendship and motherhood and how everything we think we know can be challenged in one heartbreaking instant…’ We had an amazing time in Copenhagen last week at #GIINForum23, where we were able to connect and reconnect with clients, partners, and luminaries in impact investing. In particular, it was a pleasure to celebrate the launch of the new Child-Lens Investing Framework we worked on with UNICEF USA and UNICEF.