sustainability – The Overview Project

April 11, 2020April 11, 2020

COVID-19 should Supercharge Sustainable Impact Investing

To achieve a sustainable society, where people can live fulfilling and meaningful lives, sustainable impact investing must target the three pillars of climate, poverty and health together.

COVID-19 is testing our hyperconnected way of life but it should also serve as a catalyst for a refocussing of our efforts in sustainable impact investing. While in the short-term a prioritisation of rapid economic recovery may to some degree obscure the green agenda, the longer-term outlook if anything is clearer in respect of the need and desire to mobilise capital at vast scale to finance the transition to a sustainable future.

April 11, 2020April 11, 2020

Five Ways in which New Electricity will Change Long-Term Investing

New Electricity – astonishingly cheap but variable power produced from solar and wind energy – will change the world in fundamental ways. Long-term investors need to understand the consequences of this.

For over a hundred years oil has been the “master commodity”. It was required to produce all other commodities, from agricultural goods to mined metals and minerals. The emergence of “New Electricity”- cheap power produced from renewable resources – upends this.

April 8, 2020April 11, 2020

Why Sustainable Investing is the Best Job. Ever

A career in finance is rarely what we dream of when we are children. But forget being a rock star, a football pro or a contestant on Love Island. Here’s why working in sustainable investing is the best job. Ever.

The view from Dan Wells office’ in The Shard, central London. “Working in finance usually means a lifetime of feeling separated from nature. But working in sustainable investing allows us to spend time in fields, oceans and mountains, if not always literally then at least in our minds as we plan and execute investment strategies.”. Image: Dan Wells

In the year 2000 I was travelling in New Zealand, sharing a hostel room with two easy-going Americans who lived a permanent backpacker life. “I have friends who took a suit and tie job, but I’ve never regretted my choice,” said one, in between anecdotes of a life of freedom and spur-of-the-moment adventures around the world.