Can my money help fight climate change?
Money Box
BBC
4.2 • 825 Ratings
🗓️ 9 October 2019
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Can I get a good return on investments that do good? Should you be letting your money speak rather than be out on the street? With £2.2 trillion in pension funds in the UK, do we really know what our money is doing and what it could be doing in the fight against climate change?
We have an expert panel on hand with both the science and finance knowledge to help you navigate what's called impact investing.
Mike Thompson - Committee on Climate Change Charlene Cranny - UK Sustainable Investment Fund Mary Stevens - Friends of The Earth
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| 0:49.4 | Good afternoon. Can you profit from your principles save the planet while saving for your old age? |
| 0:56.0 | Use your cash to combat climate change. Well, one person who thinks so and hopes so is Vicky. |
| 0:58.1 | Welcome Vicky to Moneybox Live. |
| 0:58.6 | Hi. |
| 0:59.3 | Hi. |
| 0:59.7 | Hi. |
| 1:06.3 | Now, you are thinking about using your savings to help reduce global warming. |
| 1:07.9 | How did you get started? |
| 1:10.1 | Yeah, exactly that. |
| 1:16.8 | I volunteer with Friends of the Earth, or I'm hosting one of their peer-led groups for women, |
| 1:20.9 | and we support each other to take climate action with our finances. |
| 1:30.4 | And essentially, we all get together in my living room and chat about how we can use our money for good. |
| 1:36.8 | And one of the things that we've been thinking about, we meet sort of every couple of months on a Friday. |
| 1:43.8 | We call it Friday finance, but the Friends of the Earth name is own it, hashtag own it 1.5. |
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