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How Do I Get It?

How do investors look beyond environmental promises?

Matt and Daniel Yungblut discuss the difference between an environmental promise and action behind it.

When a company makes an environmental promise, what happens next? In this archive interview, Daniel Yungblut and I talk about looking for action behind the words.

Watch: 13:44

Watch: 13:44 · Originally uploaded January 2022.

The conversation explores how investors question companies and consider the wider effects of their decisions. Some examples are specific to that time. Rather than treating them as current recommendations, use the discussion to think about the evidence you would want before reaching a conclusion.

Archive interview uploaded in January 2022. Company examples, statistics and policy comments reflect the recording and have not been revalidated for today. This is not current investment advice.

A question to carry

  1. What evidence would help you tell a promise from progress?

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