The bank wasn’t moving fast enough., as I learned more it became more urgent to accelerate the flow of capital towards the world’s greatest challenges.
According to the Global Sustainable Investment Alliance, at the start of 2016, sustainable investments constituted 26 percent of assets that are professionally managed—$22.89 trillion in total.
Through our research, SRA believes that after 20+ years of reporting activity in Canada, we are at a turning point. Early-adopter companies are stepping back to re-assess the value and benefit of producing annual sustainability reports.
With great power comes great responsibility — the financial sector has power to fuel tremendous growth while also potentially creating negative externalities for society and the environment.
US founding father Benjamin Franklin once observed: "I believe that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things."
Franklin's insig...