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"Institutional investors dealing with portfolios in the trillions of dollars
aren’t typically the most vocal climate campaigners. You won’t find many
superannuation fund staff, fund managers, asset consultants or brokers with a
placard on the streets or on top of a Newcastle coal train.
But you may increasingly find them on a screen you’re watching. Or at least
their message.
On Wednesday, the Investor Group on Climate Change, an organisation
representing 103 members that manage the retirement savings of nearly 15
million Australians, will launch a national advertising campaign of green
energy success stories under the banner “climate action pays off”.
The campaign’s stated goal is to compel the federal parliament to back more
policies that could accelerate the multibillion-dollar shift to a clean economy
so the country can “continue building the industries of the future and help
Australia become a clean energy powerhouse”.
Its unstated goal is to address what some see as a vacuum in the national
conversation about the climate crisis and communicate to Australians that
acting fast would be an economic win across the community, not just a cost.
Erwin Jackson, the investor group’s director of policy, said it was “the first
positive investor campaign on climate change globally”.
“Investors and investor groups globally are looking at this campaign because
they essentially have the same issues that we have in Australia,” he said."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
