Kat Gale’s Reviews > Value(s): Building a Better World for All > Status Update

Society is underinvesting in addressing climate change, even though action today will be far less costly than in the future.

Social capital needs to be nurtured for economic capital to grow.

Pope Francis observed:
Wine is many things. It has a bouquet, colour and richness of taste. It has alcohol that can enliven the mind. Grappa is one thing: alcohol. Grappa is wine distilled. Humanity is many things–passionate, curious, rational, altruistic, creative, self-interested. The market is one thing: self-interested. The market is humanity distilled. Your job is to turn the market back into humanity.

addressing climate change is one of the greatest commercial opportunities of our time...Of course, finance can’t do the job on its own. Finance is an enabler, a catalyst that will speed the transition, but catalysts still need the underlying components, in this case the climate policies of countries and the power of people demanding change.
That’s where you come in.

Our goal has been to put in place the information, tools and markets so that every financial decision takes climate change into account – to create a financial system in which a company’s contributions to climate change and climate solution are fundamental determinants of its value. So that value reflects values.