![]() All industry segments, including financial services, are contributing to climate change. Surely it won’t make any impact in the bigger scheme of things?”, But that doesn’t mean we should not try. Some of the key questions I am often asked by firms about ESG include “what difference will my, or my business’s, actions make. The questions that most people involved in working around environmental and social change might ask themselves are: can I really make a difference? Is what I am doing enough? And, as an organisation, how quickly can Sustainable Trading deliver on its commitments, given all the challenges of working with multiple firms in a highly competitive and regulated industry? Will the industry adapt in time to deliver meaningful change? Will the goals we have set for ourselves be relevant? Will a major technology or other ‘black swan’ event come along that makes an organisation such as ours redundant? As I go about my work, from time to time, these doubts circle. However, in doing so, it is clear there are many unknowns. Running an organisation like Sustainable Trading is my attempt to take positive action for environmental, social and governance change and, in doing so, create knock-on effects that reverberate across the financial markets’ trading ecosystem and further afield. Climate change is such a vast challenge that at times, inevitably, we all doubt our ability to make a meaningful difference. With COP27 upon us, the problem is front of mind for all of us involved in the environmental debate. Looking back at the extreme weather events witnessed in 2022 – with record temperatures, drought, forest fires and devastating flooding – many of us, as individuals and as business leaders, are pondering once again what we can do to play our part. “If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.” – Martin Luther King Jr. By Duncan Higgins, Founder and CEO, Sustainable Trading
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