Investors have long used issue lenses to focus capital in more targeted, impactful ways. Multilateral development banks, for example, use the Common Principles for Climate Mitigation Finance Tracking, to evaluate climate resilience projects, helping banks make an estimated USD 163 billion in investment commitments in 2025. The 2X Challenge, created in 2018 by development finance institutions (DFIs) of the G7, has provided a gender lens for more than USD 33 billion in investment. Investment lenses are routinely used to evaluate investments for a wide range of impacts, from climate, to migration, to impact on children… 

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