Sustainability heavyweights: climate change is a huge business opportunity

Climate change is the opportunity of a lifetime for asset managers ­ from an investment point of view, and also as a chance to influence policy makers. AMWatch met the high-profile sustainability advocates and siblings José and Christiana Figueres.
The massive climate change the planet is going through these decades is a business opportunity not a strain or an obstacle. | Photo: Ritzau Scanpix/Ernst Van Norde
The massive climate change the planet is going through these decades is a business opportunity not a strain or an obstacle. | Photo: Ritzau Scanpix/Ernst Van Norde

"When we came out of the stone age it wasn't because we ran out of stone. It was because we found something better. And exactly the same is happening now to coal and oil." Laughter ripples around the room at José Maria Figueres' comment about stone.

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