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Why Climate Change Matters to Investors – Lord Deben video from our 3 October event

October 25th, 2018

We were absolutely delighted to welcome Lord Deben (John Gummer) to our SRI Services and Partners event on 3 October 2018.

Lord Deben spoke elequently and passionately on ‘Why Climate Change Matters to Investors’ – his speech can be viewed here, on the Fund EcoMarket YouTube channel:

(And yes, we concur with the view that ‘climate change is both an issue of profound financial importance and one that goes to the heart of our humanity’.)

The 8 October 2018 IPCC media release stating (in brief) that we have 12 years to address climate change can be downloaded here. 

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