Capital Markets and Sustainability: Investing in a Sustainable Future
Capital Markets and Sustainability: Investing in a Sustainable Future
Description
This is the final report of the NRTEE Capital Markets and Sustainability Task Force. The report is built around 3 themes: a) the need for regulatory efficiency of financial services —in particular, the need to remove barriers to capital flows ; (b) the need to foster corporate investment in technology and efficiency ; and (c) the importance of enhanced disclosure and transparency on what is becoming recognized by legal, accounting, and regulatory authorities, as well as by the capital markets, as sources of novel risk, including social and environmental issues, to corporations and investors. Recommendations are made around all themes: for increased social and environmental transparency, they include changes to university level education (e.g. MBA) to accelerate the acceptance of the need for transparency and corporate disclosure.