by Simon Zadek, Senior Fellow at the Global Green Growth Institute, http://www.zadek.net/blog
Originally published on OpenDemocracy.net
Sustainable Finance is the Way Out of the Crisis: History will wrongly vindicate Standard & Poor’s in downgrading their view of US creditworthiness, because they made the right call for the wrong reason. S&P missed the real story behind the story, the US’s failure to grasp the new economic realities for the 21st century. http://bit.ly/n5RLWG
This article follows two sister pieces recently published in The Guardian:
Now is the perfect time to debate the historical and future role of financial markets
http://bit.ly/nlIHFM
Sustainability should be the true measure of US creditworthiness
http://bit.ly/mXCKOf