When advising on fund formation, Tideline is guided by our framework for establishing a client’s impact integrity , which features three key pillars: Target Market (identifying the impact characteristics of the target market in which a fund is investing); Capabilities (developing the capabilities of the investor to deliver and demonstrate impact); and Positioning (advising on the appropriate positioning for the fund). When all three pillars are aligned, investors will significantly enhance their ability to achieve targeted impact, client satisfaction, and avoid accusations of impact washing. Once an impact fund is launched, Tideline is often retained as a provider of ongoing implementation services. 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).

The launch of BlueMark represents the formal separation of the verification business from Tideline’s consulting business, thereby establishing a dedicated team to provide independent impact verification services. BlueMark will also serve non-US clients out of a newly established London office. There are obvious climate change issues which will impact people on every island, and global fishing practices which are destructive, wasteful and harm ecosystems such as coral reefs, as well as entire communities and island nations. Factory and fishing are two words that should never have been put together. My other ‘Anthropocene Fossil’ pieces are fossilised vessels of the Petro-chemical industry; an oil barrel and a jerry can. There is a circularity to these works as the Hamstone used is a Jurassic limestone, and most of the crude oil processed by the petro-chemical industry is found trapped within Jurassic or cretaceous limestone. People become immune or overwhelmed by the daily bombardment of news and the situation we are in can seem futile. Artists and creative thinkers can reach people in different ways and help them understand that it is possible for each of us to make an impact. The more artists make work about aspects of climate change and its effect on the planet, the wider the audience that is reached about such issues. Artists working with scientists can help see things from a different perspective, as well as making research more relatable. When Ellie hears about a hit and run incident on the dark country road she’s just driven down, she becomes convinced she’s the culprit. Driven to seek out the victim, she unleashes a nightmare.When I was very young, I remember the hearing about acid rain, and the notion was profound and disturbing. I learned that the weather pattern of the world meant that air pollution from UK businesses destroyed vast areas of Scandinavian forests. Connecting the dots at the time has informed and shaped my views, and left me with a global perspective on matters that interest me. If nothing is done, half of the world’s sandy beaches could disappear by 2100 due to climate change-induced coastal erosion and rising seas. As global temperatures continue to rise, driven by heat trapping greenhouse gases, melting ice will raise sea levels, and extreme weather events are expected to become more frequent and intensify, battering vulnerable coastlines around the world. 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’. Independent verification is essential for scaling the impact investing industry with integrity,” said Christina Leijonhufvud, a Managing Partner at Tideline who has transitioned to become CEO of BlueMark. “By introducing a reliable mechanism for establishing trust and accountability in the impact investment market, stakeholders can have greater confidence in impact claims and performance. Asset owners and institutional allocators especially benefit from the introduction of impact verification, which has the potential to dramatically simplify the impact screening and monitoring process and thereby mobilize greater capital flows toward positive societal impact.”

It also introduces the theme of mapping and representation, as well as an aspect of fishing off shore, which connects us to thinking of boundaries both physical and political, and the way these lines are drawn. reefs and presented them in a series of vitrines, first shown as part of Hull’s City of Culture in 2017. With Island, I am taking unusual materials but ones that are linked to everyone’s experience, as they all are familiar with tyres in all their forms of use; and referring to the second use of this product, once worn out, by trawling fishing boats. In this way, I am relocating people’s thinking to the water and sea bed off our shores. Shaping this island (GB) with these materials reconnects us to the land mass under our feet, and its connection to the land under the sea surrounding us. 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. 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.October 1, 2020 — Tideline, a specialist consultant for the impact investing industry, today announced the launch of BlueMark, an independent business providing impact verification services for investors and companies. BlueMark’s mission is “to strengthen trust in impact investing” through rigorous and independent assessments of an investor’s or company’s impact practices and performance, thereby building confidence and credibility in the impact label. The new business draws on Tideline’s deep expertise helping clients develop sophisticated impact investment strategies and practices, with third-party verification now emerging as the next critical piece of a best-in-class approach.

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. I have wondered ever since, why businesses don’t have people in their boardrooms and in the decision-making process who speak up for the cost to the environment that they exclude from their balance sheets. It is really a conversation about values: one group of people trading and seeking to make money should not be plundering our shared ground and seas, just because the cost to the planet does not appear on their profit and loss sheet. 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. Intentionality – Explicitly targeting specific social or environmental outcomes, such as the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); Global warming and rising sea levels will soon have a devastating impact on our daily lives. Cornwall is one of the UK counties which will be most affected by climate change; cliffs are eroding and flood risks are increasing. The coastal cliffs of North Cornwall are likely to experience 40 metres of erosion in the next century. Climate change is happening now, and we can already see the effects that this is having around the world.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.’ Charles Smith-Jones' muntjac book. Muntjac: Managing an Alien Species is a great, in-depth, look at the history, ecology, management and stalking of muntjac deer. Then we have our new edition of the classic The English Whippetby Colonel Ted Walsh and Mary Lowe.

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. 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.

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Tideline, a specialist consultant for the impact investing industry, today published a how-to guide for investors seeking to define their approach to sustainable investing. The full report, “Truth in Impact: A Tideline Guide to Using the Impact Investment Label,” is available at https://bit.ly/3yiy8Mu. The things I focus on in my art practice are issues that society acting as a whole can change, and it is the emphasis on values and sustainability that runs through all my work. I make many pieces that advocate for an accelerated pace of change. I find it incredible that that these issues persist, even after all the campaigning work has been done and it is law. An example is the Equal Pay Act, law since 1970 and more than 50 years later, there is still a gender pay gap.