Tackling climate change is key impact priority
Issue portrayed as both a risk to address, opportunity to invest
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Fiona Reynolds said U.N. PRI’s 4,000 signatories around the world overwhelmingly cite climate as their No. 1 issue.
Impact investing can mean many different things to different asset owners, depending on their investment priorities. For the nearly 4,000 global signatories to the Principles for Responsible Investment, the United Nations-supported organization representing more than half of the world s institutionally managed assets, the No. 1 issue is climate change, said PRI CEO Fiona Reynolds. They see both risk and opportunity, said Ms. Reynolds, who is based in London.
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