THE INITIATIVE

With its first paper 'Connecting the dots' published in 2012, 2Dii has been the first organisation to publish a blueprint for  making EU financial regulation consistent with climate and sustainability policy goals. A few months later, the think tank and its partners have been commissioned by the EC to provide a more detailed set of recommendations. 

Funded by EU grants, 2Dii developed methodological and policy research on climate-related disclosure for financial institutions, climate stress-testing, the shortcomings of the MIFID reform, the climate misalignment of benchmarks, the mismatch of time horizons, etc.  From 2013 to 2017, 2Dii became the main research center on the topic.

In 2018, 2Dii's founder and CEO became one of the 20 members of the HLEG on sustainable finance. He has notably drafted the recommendations of the reform of MIFID/IDD, disclosure requirements, the EU Ecolabel on financial products and the reform of the Supervisors duties. The HLEG report has then been turned into an EC action plan, and eventually a regulatory package. 

To support the implementation of the regulatory package, 2Dii developed partnership with European and national public and supervisory authorities to implement climate scenario analysis (PACTA program) and support integration of sustainability into financial advice (Finance Clima'ACT).

The trademark 2° Investing Initiative has been registered by Stan Dupre and the related activities incubated as a program by 2° Investing Ventures (legal name: Beyond Financials SA).

In 2012, the first entity (nonprofit, non-commercial) operating under the trademark 2° Investing Initiative has been incorporated in France. It is a member-based organisation governed by an elected board of directors. 

Affiliated non-for-profit entities have been incorporated in the US (NY) and Germany, each governed by a board of directors. They have offices in London and Brussels, a staff of about 40 people and a global  annual budget of +6M€. The network was coordinated by the founder and CEO until 2020.

The affiliation agreement has been formally terminated, although the activities of some entities are still coordinated. A forth legal entity (non-for-profit, non commercial), "2° Investing Initiative for Citizens" governed by its own boards and independent from the others has been incorporated in 2020 to manage the "2° Investing Initiative" trademark.