Patient green capital – Baillie Gifford

Companies need time to develop carbon-cutting disruptive innovations. By providing patient capital both environmental impact and returns can be increased, as Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust’s Claire Shaw explains.

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If we are to limit global warming to 1.5-degrees, the world will have to decarbonise at 13 per cent a year – over eight times the rate historically achieved since 2000. Thankfully, we can already see a new generation of entrepreneurs forming, primed to find solutions in carbon-intensive sectors. Over the next decade, their business models and drive will be key to triggering the tipping points that will invite further investment and thus accelerate adoption.

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