Giving Compass' Take:

• In a virtual discussion of sustainable finance at The Aspen Institute, experts express the best ways to engage investors in climate activism and social responsibility.

• How can you understand and practice sustainable finance in your investments? How can you encourage others to do the same? Why is this an important step towards responsible climate action?

• Read more about impactful finance today and in the future.

Innovators In___: A Virtual Exchange of Ideas, is a new digital series that will feature a unique focus on people who are leading the way in their industries with innovative and exciting ideas.

Through timely and engaging discussions with industry thought leaders and rising stars, this series will offer a fresh angle on the nexus of climate change as it relates key issues, including energy, agriculture and food systems, health, resilience and water.

On July 9th, we held the next installment of the series, Innovators In Sustainable Finance. Nancy McGaw, Deputy Director of the Aspen Institute’s Business & Society Program, moderated a discussion with Nat Kreamer, Chief Executive Officer of Advanced Energy Economy and Susan Gray, Global Head of Corporate and Infrastructure Ratings of S&P Global, on the business of sustainability and how to best drive climate action on the corporate level.

Sustainable finance is really a response, in many ways, to investors wanting to better understand the attributes of what their investing in. What sustainable finance is doing is taking it a step further and saying, 'Let me understand the environmental attributes of my investment, social aspects, the sustainability aspects.'"

Watch the full video about sustainable finance with Nancy McGaw, Nat Kreamer, and Susan Gray at The Aspen Institute.