12. Responsible consumption and production
11. Sustainable cities and communities
As impact investors, our goal is to back businesses set to build solutions that, if successful, present an attractive financial opportunity, whilst addressing the widely understood social and environmental problems society is currently facing.
Within impact, climate is clearly an area we're most interested in, given the ubiquity of the problem, and how materially it can change the lives of everyone on earth. For that same reason, the Total Addressable Market for climate solutions is so large that it also implies significant opportunities for financial returns.
The problem we often have is, where should we start looking for investment opportunities with a sustainable angle?
A good screen for where real positive impact can be achieved has been put together by the Drawdown Project, which does the incredibly difficult job of quantifying the potential emissions reductions by industry groups.
Consider this:
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