For impact investors, one of the big challenges is to identify and qualify companies that are providing genuine solutions to our climate and environmental problems. The negotiations that went on during the COP27 symposium in Egypt made it clear there are no longer any 'easy fixes' for the challenges we face. Global warming is creating rising sea levels, shifting rainfall patterns, increased heatwaves and droughts, as well as catastrophic wildfires and floods. But there are many other problems - largely manmade - that are also working to undermine our planetary boundaries, from land an...
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