News Digest Item
19 Sep 2016

“Will bankers become climate protectors?”

Handelsblatt

There is a “creeping revolution” causing financial market actors to re-think their approaches, incorporating climate protection and sustainability as profitable investment strategies, write Green politicians Reinhard Bütikofer and Anton Hofreiter in a guest article in the Handelsblatt. “Ever since the Paris Agreement […] we have reached a political tipping point. […] Sustainability becomes a central category for strategic decisions on questions of competitiveness.” Bütikofer and Hofreiter demand that Germany make more effort in this area and “play in the premier league”.

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