News Analysis: SRI in the spotlight after Stern report

Ethical fund managers hope the Stern report, which examines the impact of climate change and global ...

Ethical fund managers hope the Stern report, which examines the impact of climate change and global warming, will promote the profile of socially responsible investments. The report, published this week and written by former World Bank chief economist Nicholas Stern, claims failure to tackle climate change could push world temperatures up five degrees Celsius over the next century, causing severe floods, harsh droughts and uprooting many as 200 million people. The report, which takes a worse-case scenario view, recommends taking action now to offset the far greater cost of dealing with ...