{"id":4497,"date":"2022-02-08T12:44:23","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T12:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.contentdeployment.co.uk\/tomd\/?p=4497"},"modified":"2022-02-08T12:45:22","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T12:45:22","slug":"consumers-and-investors-tune-in-to-tackle-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.contentdeployment.co.uk\/tomd\/2022\/02\/08\/consumers-and-investors-tune-in-to-tackle-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Consumers and investors tune in to tackle climate change"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"hd-block hd-block-paragraph\">\n<p><strong>More than half (57%) of consumers want their pension to be invested\nresponsibly to help tackle climate change, but only one in seven people who\nhave a pension have taken steps to invest it responsibly<sup>1<\/sup>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"hd-block hd-block-paragraph\">\n<p>Climate change and the environment are bigger concerns for most\npeople than COVID-19 or the economy, according to a new study<sup>2<\/sup>. In\nall ten countries surveyed, climate change or the environment was the number\none ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) concern, reflecting the\nprominence of climate change in the global debate. Other environmental issues\ncited include waste management (8%), pollution (6%) and clean air (5%).\nFurthermore, over half of consumers are willing to boycott companies with poor\nESG performance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"hd-block hd-block-paragraph\">\n<p>SEC Newgate\nDeputy CEO EMEA Tom Parker commented, <em>\u201cThere\nis a widespread interest in and concern about the ethical and sustainability\nperformance of governments and corporates. This is a truly worldwide\nphenomenon. The surprising consistency in these results illustrates that all\nlocal issues are global and that global issues are local.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"hd-block hd-block-paragraph\">\n<p><sup>1<\/sup>Royal London, 2021<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"hd-block hd-block-paragraph\">\n<p><sup>2<\/sup>SEC Newgate, 2021<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"hd-block hd-block-paragraph\">\n<p><strong>The value of investments and income from them may go down. You may not\nget back the original amount invested. <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than half (57%) of consumers want their pension to be invested responsibly to help tackle climate change, but only one in seven people who have a pension have taken steps to invest it responsibly1. Climate change and the environment are bigger concerns for most people than COVID-19 or the economy, according to a new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":4498,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[32,89,90],"tags":[],"hd_content_source":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.contentdeployment.co.uk\/tomd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4497"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.contentdeployment.co.uk\/tomd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.contentdeployment.co.uk\/tomd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.contentdeployment.co.uk\/tomd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.contentdeployment.co.uk\/tomd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4497"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/new.contentdeployment.co.uk\/tomd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4502,"href":"https:\/\/new.contentdeployment.co.uk\/tomd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4497\/revisions\/4502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.contentdeployment.co.uk\/tomd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.contentdeployment.co.uk\/tomd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.contentdeployment.co.uk\/tomd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.contentdeployment.co.uk\/tomd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4497"},{"taxonomy":"hd_content_source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.contentdeployment.co.uk\/tomd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hd_content_source?post=4497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}