Water pollution should be viewed as financial risk, investors warn

17th August 2022


Investors managing $9.8trn (£8trn) in assets have joined a new campaign urging 72 of the world’s biggest corporate water users and polluters to value and act on water as a financial risk.

The Valuing Water Finance Initiative describes fresh water as the “world’s most precious natural resource”, and provides investors with the tools needed to “make the case” for prioritising water risk

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