Meet The Woman Fighting Climate Injustice Through Changing Passive Investment

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Meet the woman fighting climate injustice through changing passive investment:

, which participates in the factory farming of chickens, and is 3% oil and gas. That for me isn’t exactly what I’d like to invest in,” says Marilyn Waite, as she describes what propelled her to look more into the composition of index funds. ... [+]

ambitious goal of addressing climate change by accelerating the transition to a climate-friendly economy., which awarded over $400 million in grants in 2018. She has worked across four continents in venture investment and low-carbon energy, so addressing climate change through investments is her forte.

Environmental, social and governance investing is on the rise, spurred in the past year by the climate crisis. Financial Times that in 2019, ESG-focused equity funds have taken in nearly $70 billion of assets, while traditional equity funds have suffered almost $200 billion of outflows over the same period.

 

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