IW Long Reads: A new era for sustainable finance - is 2021 investing in the Age of the Anthropocene?

Investors on a mission to reverse damaging impact of global warming

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Government anti-fossil fuel pledges and rival asset managers coming together on climate change - as we leave this year in a flurry of green initiatives, will 2021 fully embrace Age of Anthropocene investing? After the horrors of 2020 welcoming a new age, as well as a new year, is an attractive prospect. The Anthropocene, still debated by scientists as a specific geological new era, is gaining traction as a way of investing that acknowledges humans have changed the world for the worse and trying to correct that. The landscape is changing "We've been investing in the theme of Anthropocene...

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