Shutterstock One of the hallmarks of working in sustainable finance is seeing that every decision you make has an impact, sometimes years into the future when that original decision feels like a distant memory. It’s that realization that drives some fundamental questions throughout sustainable finance. What does it mean to have a 30-year mortgage in a flood, storm or fire zone? What’s the value of opening a coal plant today when the economic and social cost of operating it is so much higher than alternatives? What’s the likelihood that a corporate promise for net-zero emissions will be met in 30 years when the average tenure of a C-suite executive is 4.9 years?