SIF 2023: Simon Reeve urges financial services to use 'power for good'

Have ‘incredible influence’ on future

Financial professionals have incredible influence and can use that power to effect real change across the world, but they must “push further” to achieve results, delegates heard.

Speaking on the second day of the Sustainable Investment Festival 2023, keynote speaker Simon Reeve, the travel journalist, adventurer, documentary filmmaker and television presenter, urged delegates to use their power to address ESG issues head-on and make a difference. Speaking in conversation with journalist and broadcaster Declan Curry on 15 June, Reeve said he had spent the last two decades travelling the world and witnessed the planet changing with massive population growth and the impact of climate change. SIF 2023: Clients find sustainable investing 'utterly baffling' He sa...