Over the past 30 years, our level of prosperity has increased exponentially, but nature has paid the price. Now, more than a million animal and plant species are teetering on the brink of extinction.
This will come at a steep human cost - hunger, disease, unemployment – and the UN estimates annual losses from ecosystem degradation will reach $3 trillion a year by 2030.
The financial sector is part of the solution. As a manager of global capital, the sector is in a unique position to build an economy that co-operates with nature instead of working against it.
A podcast brought to you by Pictet AM
Investment Officer is an editorially independent media platform in the Benelux countries providing industry news and insights to investment professionals working for asset owners, asset managers and asset servicing companies.
The Netherlands: http://www.investmentofficer.nl
Belgium: http://www.investmentofficer.be
Luxembourg: http://www.investmentofficer.lu
