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Investing To Save The Planet

Investing To Save The Planet

How Your Money Can Make a Difference

Summary

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Your money, and how you invest it, could help solve the global climate crisis.

In Investing to Save the Planet, Alice Ross reveals why green investing is an untapped opportunity for you to make a positive impact on the health of the planet and your portfolio.

The world is changing. The climate crisis has given rise to a wave of companies that are developing cutting-edge, technological solutions to climate change; from improving energy efficiency to engineering alternative meat. These companies, part of an increasingly-popular investment segment collectively known as Environmental, Social and Governance strategies (ESG), are helping tackle our environmental challenges and reshaping the investment landscape.

Urgent and indispensable, this investor's guide will provide you with the vital information you need to build your successful ESG investment strategy to secure a positive future for you and the planet.

© Alice Ross 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

Reviews

  • Investing responsibly is one of the most powerful avenues towards addressing climate change. But it's not only for large institutional investors. Every person's savings account and pension can meaningfully contribute. Ross tells us how in this clear, easy to understand yet transformative book
    Christiana Figueres, Founding Partner, Global Optimism and Former Executive Secretary, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

About the author

Alice Ross

Alice Ross is the deputy news editor at the Financial Times. She has been a Financial Times journalist for more than a decade writing on topics from personal investment to corporate activity to market movements. She has held roles as the deputy editor of the weekend Money section, editor of the Wealth Magazine and now holds a role as the editor of the newsletter, Trade Secrets, which examines issues affecting globalisation including climate change. Alice has a degree in philosophy from Cambridge University and an MA in European Thought from University College London.
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