Mallowstreet university dinner

THURSDAY 7 JULY | 18:00 - 21:00

The closer we all examine financial capital issues, the more natural capital overlaps we see. The Governor of the Bank of England, Sir Andrew Bailey, recently apologised for sounding “apocalyptic” about the risks of rising food prices. Yet other parts of government hold the key to resolving the food crisis, which threatens not only financial stress but humanitarian and environmental disaster. Simply scrapping the government regulations that require biofuel to be blended with petrol and diesel would remove a very large non-food demand for crops and turn the current grain shortage to a surplus, easing the pressure on inflation, the acute food insecurity faced by millions of people around the world and potentially slowing the collapse of biodiversity.

There are many other ways in which natural capital mismanagement is interacting with the good stewardship of financial capital. The use of land and the morality of using scarce food to make biofuels is just one of many challenges for institutional investors to rationalise. And, as sustainable disclosure requirements are introduced, such issues will also need to be measured and explained.

Join us on Thursday 7 July to hear from our Head of Investment Strategy on this topic.