ABSTRACT
For generations policy makers have sought to align the interests of the fi nancial markets and society. Nowhere is this tension more keenly and persistently felt than in the relentlessness of the capital markets in allocating capital to short-term, unsustainable uses, in combination with policy makers’ need to plan for the long term and tackle a range of environmental and social issues such as the nexus of issues surrounding poverty, climate change, fresh water and human rights.
