Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Green growth and sustainable development - Investing in a sustainable future


Investment strategies almost never consider external costs to the environment when calculating potential returns. But incorporating environmental risk and sustainability into investor mindsets is possible– and urgent.

Every day we hear more about the threats to our planet: catastrophic climate change, vanishing species, growing mountains of waste, and worsening divides between rich and poor. There is growing awareness that our global economy is environmentally unsustainable. Our prosperity depends on a wide range of resources and services supplied by our planet: land to feed ourselves, water to drink, minerals for our industries, and the humble bee to pollinate our crops.

Most of these resources and environmental services are overexploited and underpriced. Often, they are not valued at all in today’s economies.

See full Press Release: http://www.oecd.org/greengrowth/investing-in-a-sustainable-future.htm