“As the Climate Crisis deepens, the financial sector will play a key role.”

Without the financial sector's support, it will become increasingly difficult to bring the required awareness to environmental issues globally. Money talks and money propels action.

Investment is crucial to projects and businesses who are supporting and practising environmentally sustainable strategies and researching innovative energy solutions. What Is Sustainable Finance and Why Is It Important?

But what is Green Finance?

In layman’s terms and according to the World Economic Forum - it is any “structured financial activity that’s been created to ensure a better environmental outcome”.

Greater accountability is needed and this is where we see Green Finance playing a huge part.

There has been a significant increase in the availability of green finance to businesses to help make them greener but more importantly, the investment sector, both public and private, are now also demanding for businesses to ha...

Gone are the days when business was just ‘business’, with economics and essentially ‘making money’ at any cost, taking precedence above all. 

The bottom line was the sole focus of all shareholders, CEOs, chair people and executive managers. It was really that black and white. 

Where was the human element of business? And if it was there, where did it factor for business people? 

Businesses both large and small have a responsibility to their community, to their society, to their environment and to their team, to ultimately ‘self-regulate’ and look at their impact on those areas. Cost savings are important, financial turnover is important, however it has become increasingly apparent that when it comes to ‘business as usual’, those with tunnel vision won’t last in the competitive world of corporations and enterprise. 

Many companies believe that simply throwing money at charities or environmental projects is sufficient, however CSR like with a business’ green programme, needs to be ...