Inequalities

Section 3 highlights how businesses and financial institutions can both contribute to and reduce inequalities and can be exposed to related risks and opportunities, including those arising from societal stability, macroeconomic and financial stability effects. TISFD is working to document and build the evidence base on how business and financial sector activities affect inequalities. This includes refining an understanding of the drivers of impacts on people and inequalities, clarifying how impacts related to inequalities give rise to financial risks and opportunities for entities, as well as how they contribute to broader societal, macroeconomic and financial stability risks, and may therefore be relevant to investors and financial institutions, and developing criteria for prioritising metrics related to inequality-related system-level risks.