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An African finding ways to make sustainable development real in the 21st century. Advisor on sustainable finance and responsible investment for institutional investment via integration of environmental, social and corporate governance [ESG] factors. Research and advisory engagements range from trillion-dollar money managers assessing emerging markets to launching initiatives including the Africa Sustainability Investment Forum [AfricaSIF] project in 2009. My life at the intersection of capital markets and sustainability; where I ask simple questions like: how much is that clean air worth? Why can I not swim in any river in the world?

Social Enterprise: Directing capital toward meeting social goals above financial goals is, like hiking up Table Mountain, not a stroll in...

Sustainable Finance: The Shell Dialogues debate in Cape Town was a useful touchpoint on the debate around sustainable finance and alternativ...

Sustainable Finance: ...And we're back. After a hiatus we are back tonight with a headful of talking heads. Investment in adaptation an...

Sustainable Finance: So what do we want of banks? A fair question and more sharply pointed in the post-2008 financial meltdown. The skeleton...

Sustainable Finance: Activity by the investor relations (IR) team at SABMiller [LON: SAB, JNB: SAB] is causing a bit of a stir in the [small...

Sustainable Finance: How to choose where to put money: creating software applications, launching community small, medium, micro enterpri...

Sustainable Finance: The investment policy statement [IPS] is a critical document that establishes how an investment firm, or pension fund,...

Sustainable Finance: Thirtysomething. Yip, that still has a good ring to it. And while my wife keeps trying to round it up to forty, it work...

Sustainable Finance: Investing in water has been touted for a few years as the next great investable theme in sustainable finance. But "blue...

Sustainable Finance: The UN meeting in Copenhagen in December to try and set new rules of the game on emitting green house gases, namely car...

Sustainable Finance: Nice work by the judge in US vs Madoff. The slimy Mr Madoff was sentenced to 150 years with cheers from the courtroom...

Sustainable Finance: How many ways may we successfully present the ESG factors in the sustainability investment case? Finding numbers for th...

Sustainable Finance: When I heard Sir Bob Geldof was to be keynote speaker at the 2009 FT Sustainable Banker awards this past Thursday I w...

Sustainable Finance: Late Thursday at LHR Terminal 5 British Airways we boarded the stately 747 next to "Air Force Scrum" with the throng of...

Sustainable Finance: Millions have lost jobs, and some of those have directly impacted SRI. In the numbers are real lives of real people. In...

Sustainable Finance: Last Monday 8 June in Stockholm, Sweden at the IMN 8th European Summit on Corporate Governance and Responsible Investm...

Sustainable Finance: Whom do you trust? The Economist in 2008 reported estimates for professionally managed assets was around USD 64 trilli...

Sustainable Finance: One of the more interesting examples in recent years is the Access to Medicine Index (ATMI). While in The Netherlands,...

Sustainable Finance: On a clear day, the white wind turbines turn slowly above the Amsterdam skyline. Looking West from near the Passenger T...

Sustainable Finance: Welcome! This new JustMeans blog on SUSTAINABLE FINANCE AND RESPONSIBLE INVESTMENT will offer up some snippets and sna...