What is the potential for socially responsible investment?
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About the video: ‘What is the potential for socially responsible investment?’
Tessa Tennant recognizes the massive growth in (Socially Responsible Investment) SRI funds worldwide. But she warns that the industry must continue to push forward the leading edge in ethical investing or risk remaining a marginal movement. She points to some of the more inspiring developments in social and responsible investment and highlights the challenge of “one planet living” – the idea that we are currently living beyond Earth’s capacity to support our consumption and production patterns – a goal that SRI could help deliver.
Total views: 1,270
Filmed: London, UK on 18 April 2007
Credits: Interviewer - Marcus Morrell, Camera and Editor - Marcus Morrell
Copyright © 2007 Big Picture TV
About Tessa Tennant
Tessa Tennant is Executive Chair of The ICE Organisation, a personal
carbon management and loyalty programme. Tessa co-founded the UK’s
first equity investment fund for sustainable development in 1988. She
was Chair and co-founder of the UK Social Investment Forum and of the
Carbon Disclosure Project. In 2001 she co-founded and was first Chair
of the Association for Sustainable and Responsible Investment
in Asia (ASrIA). In 2003 she received the Sustainability Leadership Award given by SAM/SPG, Switzerland.
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