The environment is the ethical issue for investors

Socially responsible investing is a recognised and established sector, with an estimated £10bn invested in retail funds and £80bn in occupational pension schemes, and it is continuing to grow driven by consumer and investor decisions based on ethical and environmental concerns

Climate change is one of the most pressing issues of our time and the ethical consequences of its impact include flood, droughts, famine, pestilence and war. It is becoming clear that it is no longer sustainable to extract limited resources from the earth, take the energy and pump the waste into the environment. Resources will run out and the production of waste, and green house gases in particular, will cause environmental consequences that threaten the economic stability of our present way of life. The dramatic transformation that is needed to sustainable and non-polluting methods of us...