The 21st century investor: Ceres blueprint for sustainable investing

This summary report of The 21st Century Investor: Ceres Blueprint for Sustainable Investing (the "Ceres Investor Blueprint") is a preview of a more detailed document Ceres will release later this quarter. The Ceres Investor Blueprint is intended to guide investors along a path to becoming what we call "sustainable investors" - investors who understand that the 21st century economy will be shaped by powerful forces such as climate change, population growth, rising demand for energy, declining supplies of fresh water and other natural resources, and protection of human rights and worker health and safety. To protect current and future beneficiaries, and maximise risk-adjusted returns, sustainable investors will need to mitigate the risks and seize the opportunities arising from these sustainability challenges.

The Ceres Investor Blueprint is designed to help investors act on their growing concern about sustainability by providing a set of 10 concrete action steps that will move them along a path towards becoming sustainable investors.

In addition to working with investors in the Ceres Coalition, Ceres directs the Investor Network on Climate Risk (INCR), a network of 100 leading investors collectively managing more than $10 trillion in assets ... READ MORE

Released by Ceres - May 2013