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FTSE identifies and defines opportunities in the environmental market
Thursday, December 03, 2009
In the first of a three-part series, Will Oulton, Director of Responsible Investing at FTSE Group, defines the environmental marketplace and identifies opportunities and shifts in performance for the companies that that marketplace contains.
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As Will explains, sustainable investment focuses on a holistic view of social, environmental, and other factors to determine companies that make responsible products and decisions. The environmental markets, as FTSE defines them, contain companies that focus on solving environmental challenges and improving resource efficiency.
Will identified that the interest in environmental markets has increased primarily over the past few years. We asked Will, "Why now?"
"Clearly the debate on climate change is one driver, but there are others, for example the issues of energy security and supply is a big political issue...also the growth in global population...all these stresses on natural resources are interlinked from energy to population to water to economic development..."
He also addresses how FTSE dealt with the difficulty that investors had with finding companies who provide products or services that benefit the environment and discusses how the public policy debate is shaping investments. Public policy will be addressed in depth in our next conversation with FTSE to be released next week.
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