{"id":3954,"date":"2021-04-22T07:00:41","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T06:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sarasinandpartners.com\/row\/think\/the-earth-is-what-we-all-have-in-common\/"},"modified":"2021-04-27T12:03:39","modified_gmt":"2021-04-27T11:03:39","slug":"the-earth-is-what-we-all-have-in-common","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sarasinandpartners.com\/row\/think\/the-earth-is-what-we-all-have-in-common\/","title":{"rendered":"The Earth is what we all have in common"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Earth Day is a moment to reflect on a world in trouble. On one day, over a billion people around the world are coming together to address the problems of climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution with clean-up campaigns, tree planting, education and scientific solutions.<\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-4036 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/sarasinandpartners.com\/row\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/04\/ED-Icons-2-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1480\" height=\"253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sarasinandpartners.com\/row\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/04\/ED-Icons-2-1.jpg 1480w, https:\/\/sarasinandpartners.com\/row\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/04\/ED-Icons-2-1-300x51.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sarasinandpartners.com\/row\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/04\/ED-Icons-2-1-1024x175.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sarasinandpartners.com\/row\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/04\/ED-Icons-2-1-768x131.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sarasinandpartners.com\/row\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/04\/ED-Icons-2-1-520x89.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1480px) 100vw, 1480px\" \/>But economic and investment solutions are needed too. There is no question that the historic \u2018laissez-faire\u2019 capitalism that has dominated in recent decades has contributed to the environmental problems the world faces today. The way that financial capital interacts with natural capital needs to change.<\/p>\n<p>A critical first step in putting a higher value on nature is to measure it better \u2013 the costs of using up or damaging the environment are not reflected in GDP and other measures of national accounts. And they are not reflected in the financial accounts of most companies.<\/p>\n<p>At Sarasin, for each investment we make, we consider five major categories of environmental harm<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>contribution to climate change<\/li>\n<li>use of fresh water and ocean resources<\/li>\n<li>use of land resources and the resulting impact on biodiversity<\/li>\n<li>contribution to air pollution<\/li>\n<li>pollution from product end-of-life and the ability to decouple growth from the consumption of finite resources<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>New regulations like the SFDR (Sustainable Financial Disclosure Regulations) in Europe are encouraging wider-spread adoption of such analysis. By better measuring these inputs and outputs, behaviour will change \u2013 what gets measured gets managed. But better measurement and financial disclosure is only the first step.<\/p>\n<p>Challenges like climate change require very rapid shifts in behaviour. A growing number of responsible stewards of capital are encouraging the companies they own to report on climate change with additional data disclosures like TCFD (the Taskforce on Climate related Financial Disclosure), and to set limits on carbon emissions by adopting net zero targets.<\/p>\n<p>For investors there are many financial risks that stem from environmental perils. For example, as climates change, economic costs and financial losses could result from higher temperatures, worse weather and physical climate impacts. Furthermore, as economies seek to reduce carbon dioxide emissions, new government policies, technological developments and consumer sentiment could undermine many business plans. The World Economic Forum estimates that more than half of global GDP (&gt;$44 trillion) is at risk from nature loss unless there are more ambitious conservation efforts at local, national and international levels.<\/p>\n<p>But investors don\u2019t just focus on short-term financial risk and reward. Longer-term measures of value creation must take account of sustainability. This means that the impacts of their investments on the planet, and on other people need to be considered too.\u00a0 Earth Day is a moment to reflect on a world in trouble and for us all to consider a more sustainable future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earth Day is a moment to reflect on a world in trouble. On one day, over a billion people around the world are coming together to address the problems of climate change, biodiversity loss and pollution with clean-up campaigns, tree planting, education and scientific solutions. But economic and investment solutions are needed too. There is...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"coauthors":[100],"class_list":["post-3954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stewardship-thoughts"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Earth is what we all have in common - Sarasin &amp; Partners Global<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Earth Day is a moment to reflect on a world in trouble..\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sarasinandpartners.com\/row\/think\/the-earth-is-what-we-all-have-in-common\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Earth is what we all have in common - Sarasin &amp; Partners Global\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Earth Day is a moment to reflect on a world in trouble..\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/sarasinandpartners.com\/row\/think\/the-earth-is-what-we-all-have-in-common\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Sarasin &amp; Partners Global\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-04-22T06:00:41+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-04-27T11:03:39+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@sarasinpartners\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@sarasinpartners\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sarasinandpartners.com\\\/row\\\/think\\\/the-earth-is-what-we-all-have-in-common\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sarasinandpartners.com\\\/row\\\/think\\\/the-earth-is-what-we-all-have-in-common\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"\",\"@id\":\"\"},\"headline\":\"The Earth is what we all have in common\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-04-22T06:00:41+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-04-27T11:03:39+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sarasinandpartners.com\\\/row\\\/think\\\/the-earth-is-what-we-all-have-in-common\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":453,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sarasinandpartners.com\\\/row\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sarasinandpartners.com\\\/row\\\/think\\\/the-earth-is-what-we-all-have-in-common\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sarasinandpartners.com\\\/row\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/6\\\/2021\\\/04\\\/ED-Icons-2-1.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Stewardship\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sarasinandpartners.com\\\/row\\\/think\\\/the-earth-is-what-we-all-have-in-common\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sarasinandpartners.com\\\/row\\\/think\\\/the-earth-is-what-we-all-have-in-common\\\/\",\"name\":\"The Earth is what we all have in common - Sarasin &amp; Partners Global\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sarasinandpartners.com\\\/row\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sarasinandpartners.com\\\/row\\\/think\\\/the-earth-is-what-we-all-have-in-common\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sarasinandpartners.com\\\/row\\\/think\\\/the-earth-is-what-we-all-have-in-common\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sarasinandpartners.com\\\/row\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/sites\\\/6\\\/2021\\\/04\\\/ED-Icons-2-1.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-04-22T06:00:41+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-04-27T11:03:39+00:00\",\"description\":\"Earth Day is a moment to reflect on a world in trouble..\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sarasinandpartners.com\\\/row\\\/think\\\/the-earth-is-what-we-all-have-in-common\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/sarasinandpartners.com\\\/row\\\/think\\\/the-earth-is-what-we-all-have-in-common\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sarasinandpartners.com\\\/row\\\/think\\\/the-earth-is-what-we-all-have-in-common\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"\",\"contentUrl\":\"\",\"width\":1480,\"height\":253},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sarasinandpartners.com\\\/row\\\/think\\\/the-earth-is-what-we-all-have-in-common\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sarasinandpartners.com\\\/row\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"The Earth is what we all have in common\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sarasinandpartners.com\\\/row\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sarasinandpartners.com\\\/row\\\/\",\"name\":\"Sarasin &amp; Partners Global\",\"description\":\"Sarasin &amp; Partners\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sarasinandpartners.com\\\/row\\\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sarasinandpartners.com\\\/row\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sarasinandpartners.com\\\/row\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Sarasin &amp; Partners Global\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sarasinandpartners.com\\\/row\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sarasinandpartners.com\\\/row\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sarasinandpartners.com\\\/row\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/12\\\/sarasinandpartners.svg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sarasinandpartners.com\\\/row\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/12\\\/sarasinandpartners.svg\",\"width\":532,\"height\":197,\"caption\":\"Sarasin &amp; Partners Global\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sarasinandpartners.com\\\/row\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/x.com\\\/sarasinpartners\",\"https:\\\/\\\/www.linkedin.com\\\/company\\\/sarasin-&amp;amp;-partners\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"The Earth is what we all have in common - Sarasin &amp; Partners Global","description":"Earth Day is a moment to reflect on a world in trouble..","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/sarasinandpartners.com\/row\/think\/the-earth-is-what-we-all-have-in-common\/","og_locale":"en_GB","og_type":"article","og_title":"The Earth is what we all have in common - Sarasin &amp; Partners Global","og_description":"Earth Day is a moment to reflect on a world in trouble..","og_url":"https:\/\/sarasinandpartners.com\/row\/think\/the-earth-is-what-we-all-have-in-common\/","og_site_name":"Sarasin &amp; Partners Global","article_published_time":"2021-04-22T06:00:41+00:00","article_modified_time":"2021-04-27T11:03:39+00:00","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@sarasinpartners","twitter_site":"@sarasinpartners","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"","Estimated reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/sarasinandpartners.com\/row\/think\/the-earth-is-what-we-all-have-in-common\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/sarasinandpartners.com\/row\/think\/the-earth-is-what-we-all-have-in-common\/"},"author":{"name":"","@id":""},"headline":"The Earth is what we all have in common","datePublished":"2021-04-22T06:00:41+00:00","dateModified":"2021-04-27T11:03:39+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/sarasinandpartners.com\/row\/think\/the-earth-is-what-we-all-have-in-common\/"},"wordCount":453,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/sarasinandpartners.com\/row\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/sarasinandpartners.com\/row\/think\/the-earth-is-what-we-all-have-in-common\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/sarasinandpartners.com\/row\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/04\/ED-Icons-2-1.jpg","articleSection":["Stewardship"],"inLanguage":"en-GB"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/sarasinandpartners.com\/row\/think\/the-earth-is-what-we-all-have-in-common\/","url":"https:\/\/sarasinandpartners.com\/row\/think\/the-earth-is-what-we-all-have-in-common\/","name":"The Earth is what we all have in common - Sarasin &amp; Partners Global","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/sarasinandpartners.com\/row\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/sarasinandpartners.com\/row\/think\/the-earth-is-what-we-all-have-in-common\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/sarasinandpartners.com\/row\/think\/the-earth-is-what-we-all-have-in-common\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/sarasinandpartners.com\/row\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/04\/ED-Icons-2-1.jpg","datePublished":"2021-04-22T06:00:41+00:00","dateModified":"2021-04-27T11:03:39+00:00","description":"Earth Day is a moment to reflect on a world in trouble..","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/sarasinandpartners.com\/row\/think\/the-earth-is-what-we-all-have-in-common\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-GB","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/sarasinandpartners.com\/row\/think\/the-earth-is-what-we-all-have-in-common\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/sarasinandpartners.com\/row\/think\/the-earth-is-what-we-all-have-in-common\/#primaryimage","url":"","contentUrl":"","width":1480,"height":253},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/sarasinandpartners.com\/row\/think\/the-earth-is-what-we-all-have-in-common\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/sarasinandpartners.com\/row\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"The Earth is what we all have in common"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/sarasinandpartners.com\/row\/#website","url":"https:\/\/sarasinandpartners.com\/row\/","name":"Sarasin &amp; Partners Global","description":"Sarasin &amp; Partners","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/sarasinandpartners.com\/row\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/sarasinandpartners.com\/row\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-GB"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/sarasinandpartners.com\/row\/#organization","name":"Sarasin &amp; Partners Global","url":"https:\/\/sarasinandpartners.com\/row\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/sarasinandpartners.com\/row\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/sarasinandpartners.com\/row\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/sarasinandpartners.svg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/sarasinandpartners.com\/row\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/sarasinandpartners.svg","width":532,"height":197,"caption":"Sarasin &amp; Partners Global"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/sarasinandpartners.com\/row\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/x.com\/sarasinpartners","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/sarasin-&amp;amp;-partners"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":""}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarasinandpartners.com\/row\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarasinandpartners.com\/row\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarasinandpartners.com\/row\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarasinandpartners.com\/row\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarasinandpartners.com\/row\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sarasinandpartners.com\/row\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarasinandpartners.com\/row\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarasinandpartners.com\/row\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarasinandpartners.com\/row\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3954"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarasinandpartners.com\/row\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}