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Sustainable Investment Funds Can Encourage Worse Behavior

The Horizons Tracker

Sustainable behaviors The researchers scrutinized the emissions records of more than three thousand major corporations spanning the years 2002 to 2020. What we find is that when green firms experience a change in their cost of capital, their emissions don’t change substantially,” the researchers explain.

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How Banks Can Compete Against an Army of Fintech Startups

Harvard Business Review

banks are going to survive the coming wave in financial technology (fintech), they’ll need to finally take digital transformation seriously. Small businesses are starting to demand banking services that have engaging web and mobile user experiences, on par with the technologies they use in their personal lives.

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Why Europe's Carbon Woes Matter to the Whole World

Harvard Business Review

This has drastically reduced the incentives for them to invest in or deploy clean-energy technologies or to modernize their energy-infrastructure assets. The supply of carbon credits is fixed through 2020 — not by a regulator or a committee, but by law. So the European carbon market clearly has a design flaw.

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