Al Gore: Where Sustainable Investing Goes From Here
The former U.S. vice president sees the coronavirus accelerating a focus on science and governmental change that will drive a sustainability revolution.
At the end of last year, sustainable investing was having its biggest moment. Climate change was a hot topic and green energy stocks were hitting new highs. Then Covid-19 hit and everything changed.
The global pandemic may be just what’s required to address the environmental crisis once and for all, says former U.S. Vice President Al Gore.
Gore, as the chairman of $19.8 billion asset manager Generation Investment Management, has been investing directly in this arena for the past 16 years. He says in this conversation with Bloomberg News’s Emily Chasan that the coronavirus is unlike anything before — a once-in-a generation opportunity to rethink, reset and redesign the global economy.