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What’s going to be big for responsible investors in 2021? Here are RI’s predictions
This year will be busier than ever for the sustainable finance and responsible investment world. RI Editor Sophie Robinson-Tillett identifies six of the biggest topics to watch. ...
BUILDING THINGS THAT LAST
Proliferation of cheap disposable goods and materials is a key negative by-product of the linear economy, symbolised for many by numerous images of miles and miles of plastic floating in the middle of the ocean. To achieve a switch to a circular economy, consumer...
HYDROGEN POWER – ENABLING A VIRTUOUS DECARBONISATION LOOP
There has been a significant increase in investor interest in companies focusing on hydrogen technology as governments included them in their post-COVID recovery plans. In this paper, we look at hydrogen from the environmental standpoint, as well as key factors...
CIRCLES, TRIANGLE LADDERS AND COWS
According to the Global Footprint Network, in 2020 humanity has been living on credit since 22 August as we have already consumed all the resources the planet can regenerate in a year. In other words, it now takes 1.6 planets to meet the needs of humanity. And if we...
PARADISE GONE
The story of the “economic paradise” of Nauru shows perhaps better than any other, in microcosm, the ruin at the end of a linear economy. In the 1970s, the tiny Pacific island of Nauru had the highest income per head in the world after Saudi Arabia. The money has come...
How does China’s 2060 carbon neutral target impact financial markets?
When it comes to climate change, there are strong new ambitions in the world’s second largest economy. On September 22, Chinese President Xi Jinping announced in his statement at the general debate of the 75th Session of the UN General Assembly that “China will scale...
