John Green, chief commercial officer of Ninety One, talks to Pedro Gonçalves ahead of next month’s climate summit in Glasgow.
‘As investors, we have a real responsibility to ensure that we do not take the easy route when dealing with sustainability," John Green, chief commercial officer of Ninety One, told Investment Week. "Are you really contributing to achieving net zero in the real world? How do you think about deploying capital to assist those high emitters on their transition? If your natural approach to a portfolio is to say ‘we are going to sell high emitters and buy low [emitters]', that is starving emerging markets from capital. "But that is where you actually need to be leaning in to solve that pr...
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