Why should investors care about environmental, social, and financial systems?
Investment occurs in a world built upon rich frameworks of natural resources and a highly sophisticated societal infrastructure including a well-functioning financial system – all of which have been built up over decades, centuries, and even millennia in the case of natural resources. The financial community can help to preserve and enhance these systems, promoting healthy long-term returns; or it can undercut and destabilize them, jeopardizing investors’ bottom lines.