What we've learned about making finance sustainable

With the credit crunch, the global Occupy Movement, and the various banking scandals of recent years, there have been searching questions about the role - and sustainability - of the financial system. At Forum for the Future, we've been asking our own questions about how we best influence this system. We have spent well over a decade working in this area, from when we set up the Centre for Sustainable Investment, to more recent attempts to bring long-term thinking to the finance system. We have helped our partners, such as Aviva Investors, Bank of America, Barclays, The Co-operative and RSA Insurance, to tackle sustainability issues and put in place new cultures and practices. We've also done great projects, creating and using innovative financial mechanisms to enable more sustainable practices in forestry, carbon markets, community energy and shipping. read more