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Sustainable finance is a way of deploying investment capital to create sustainable outcomes at a societal and economy-wide level.". If you broaden the aperture a bit more, you’ll see a much, much bigger opportunity: to finance the transition of the globaleconomy to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
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