There has been a lot in the press recently about activist investors, the increasing importance of ESG, and how big money can move the needle on climate.Here on this podcast, I've had a number of episodes related to ESG and investing as well. In this week's show, I'm talking to Rob Gardner. Rob is the Director of Investments at St. James's Place Wealth Management, where he is responsible for growing and protecting the wealth of over 850,000 clients totaling over 145 billion pounds. Rob describes himself as a financial activist "on a mission to make money a force for good for people and the planet and create ‘financial wellbeing in a world worth living in’"We had a fascinating conversation covering everything like different approaches to investing, the power of your pension, and the importance of biodiversity for climate mitigation. I especially loved Rob's 'practical steps anyone can take today' advice: contact your HR department to ask about how your pension is invested. When I looked into my own pension, it turns out it is with VidaCaixa who are committed to the United Nations-supported Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) that Rob referred to in the podcast. I also loved Rob's take on how crypto could potentially help out. WhaleCoin anyone? This was a truly fascinating episode of the podcast and as always, I learned loads, I hope you do too.If you have any comments/suggestions or questions for the podcast - feel free to leave me a voice message over on my SpeakPipe page, head on over to the Climate 21 Podcast Forum, or just send it to me as a direct message on Twitter/LinkedIn. Audio messages will get
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