Globally, some $50t in assets are currently held in retirement plans, money that pension funds are tasked with growing. As it stands, a large chunk of that money ends up invested in companies that produce or are associated with the production of fossil fuels. Richard Curtis wants that to change.
“A lot of sustainable pensions are making equal, if not more,” Curtis says on this week’s episode of the Zero podcast. “This is a way where you could say to someone, ‘You're worried about the climate? Here's a great big thing you could do.’”