Survey Results: Your Single-Use Plastic Water Bottle Purchases
See how the Earthling community responded to last week’s Earth911 survey: Has your community changed its recycling rules this year?
Source: earth911.com
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At the beginning of 2020, BlackRock laid a series of steps to make sustainability a key component of our investment approach, driven by an investment conviction that an understanding of sustainability issues is essential to long-term investment performance. In mid-2020, we surveyed our clients to better understand their drivers and challenges to sustainable investing, how the pandemic has affected their implementation, and how innovation can spur adoption. We heard from 425 investors in 27 countries representing as estimated U.S. $25 trillion in assets under management.