Why investors must engage on the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance

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One response to “Why investors must engage on the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance”

  1. Mike Clark

    How do we separate the responsibilties of government and non-financial regulators from that of the finance sector?

    Societal risk and financial risk are different risk paradigms.

    A financial regulator is never going to go big on AMR. So what exactly are the transmission channels here? Do we need “accepting lower profitis/expected returns” to be key to progress? Seems we are learning that in the context of climate change?

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