Why it's smart to bet on climate science

Data show that even if investors don't flag environmental cataclysm as a major concern or even express skepticism about it, there are some who bet successfully on the scientists being right

A tipping point for governments in aligning their policies with the science of climate change won’t be brought about by schoolkids demonstrating. It will come from a shift in investor sentiment.

Data show that even if investors don’t flag environmental cataclysm as a major concern or even express skepticism about it, there are some who bet consistently and successfully on the scientists being right.

Conservatives are on the whole still skeptical about climate change, particularly in the US Many investors are conservative. As one finance professional told Uppsala University researcher Brett Christophers for a recently published study of institutional investor