Adopt a gold standard for your sustainable investments - AllianceBernstein

To transform aspirations into action, investors need a coherent framework for defining sustainability.

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... From escalating climate threats to growing social challenges, the impetus for creating a more sustainable world has become impossible to ignore. But we can’t rely on governments and philanthropy to solve the problems.

Investors have an important role to play by supporting private sector efforts to address the issues that will redefine life on earth for decades to come. Yet investing efforts that aim to improve the world are under scrutiny. Sceptics claim environmental, social and governance (ESG) investment criteria can be subjective at best and self-serving at worst.

AllianceBernstein disagree—so long as investors hold fast to objective criteria, adopting a recognised independent reference point for their investment process. As a prime example, the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs) are a powerful and important initiative that aims to change the world substantively—and can help guide investors to companies addressing some of the most critical areas of importance to humanity.

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