For millennia the earth has floated in a temperature zone set just right for human civilisation to settle down in ever-increasing degrees of comfort. But if an overly relaxed world has since slept through a series of environmental alarms, the coronavirus crisis may well be the wake-up call it needs to avert the worst climate change bear scenarios.
Read The Goldilocks crisis: why we must use covid-19 to wake up to climate change here.
One of the most important, upcoming challenges at CalSTRS is how the fund should evaluate Chinese investments from a human capital and environmental standpoint, says Chris Ailman, chief investment officer at the giant pension fund.
What is required for all investors to use their influence to create a more sustainable economy, and to wake up to the crucial role they play in ensuring a sustainable recovery?
What is sustainability if not the ability to exist into the future? In this context how sustainable are institutions, organisations, communities and politics and what will the future actually look like?
The climate emergency is so large it requires a rewiring of the whole economic and financial system. But to do this new risk models are required and old paradigms must be abandoned to make way for a better way of understanding complex systems.
This session looks at case studies of how investors are using SDGs to shape a view of the future and incorporating that into an investment framework.
In this intimate conversation, Paul Polman, SDG ambassador and chair of IMAGINE, discusses the importance of leaders accelerating corporate responsibility efforts.
This session takes a deep dive into the sustainability lens from a large corporate view and how investors and corporates are working together to create lasting impact.
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