Talking heads – Financing sustainable development - BNPP Easy France professional investors

To tackle poverty, climate change and improved access to, for example, education, central banks and governments need to rethink fiscal policy and the impact of deficit spending. Trillions of US dollars are required to achieve these goals. Alex Bernhardt, global head of sustainability research, talks about how it could be done.

Listen to our Talking heads podcast with Alex and chief market strategist Daniel Morris as they discuss the change in thinking needed to facilitate spending the more than USD 5-7 trillion to contain sustainability-related systemic risk. As for investors, they can contribute already to the transition by investing in green growth opportunities and thematic sustainable energy and low-carbon strategies.

Formerly known as ‘Market weekly’, our Talking heads brings investors the in-depth insights on topics that really matter to them, analysis of the world and markets through the lens of sustainability and more great conversations with investment experts.

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