PGGM’s van Dam sees inflated expectations of sustainable finance
"Speaking at an Edhec climate finance conference in Paris this week, Jaap van Dam said: ”Sometimes it feels that the whole of society is looking at the financial sector to solve the climate chang ...
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Principal Director of Investment Strategy at PGGM & Member of the EDHEC-Risk Institute Institutional Advisory
"Speaking at an Edhec climate finance conference in Paris this week, Jaap van Dam said: ”Sometimes it feels that the whole of society is looking at the financial sector to solve the climate change problem.” I think that’s a much overrated thing,” he said. “Climate change is actually produced in the real world, so it’s about capital owners, it’s about capital investments, it’s about consumers, and I think the government has a very large role to play.””
| Type: | Press article |
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| Date: | le 19/12/2019 |
| Research Cluster : | Finance |
| Source : | IPE |
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