The push for sustainable instead of ethical investment

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On Wednesday night, Barchester Green held a seminar as part of NEIW where John Ditchfield, the director of Barchester Green spoke about the importance of sustainable investment.

Mr Ditchfield said sustainable investment differed from ethical investment as it seeks to actively address environmental problems.

He said: "We all agree we are depleting the world's resources and sustainable investing aims to support companies trying to prevent and even reverse this.

"With social impact investing, investors not only want good financial returns but for their investments to have a positive social impact, for example microfinancing."