Over the past 18 months, the importance of effective health care has been brought into sharp focus. However, today two billion people cannot access the medicine they need due to price and accessibility among other factors. 

Since 2000, Good Jobs First’s Violation Tracker has recorded over 116,000 employment related offences with a total payout of over $31billion in the US alone. In this article we explore what ‘Decent Work’ means and what we at Rathbone Greenbank Investments, as well as other investors, can do to promote and safeguard high standards.

Putting people and communities at the heart of sustainable investment.

Post-COP26 roundup interview.

After the delays caused by the pandemic, COP26 was always going to be met with intense scrutiny from investors, businesses and climate change campaigners. 

Greenbank has led an open investor letter to the UK government supporting the mandatory reporting of nutrition and sustainability metrics for food sector companies. 

Rathbone Greenbank and Rathbones were delighted to support the 2021 Durrell Lecture.

Across the world, women are on the front line of the climate emergency. The majority of the world’s poorest people are women. As women tend to rely more on natural resources for their livelihoods, not only will climate disasters hit women harder, but the changing climate is likely to make those women even poorer. 

With COP26 representing a critical moment to turn global ambition into action on climate change, we touched base with Joe Crehan to get his thoughts on the energy transition and how COP26 could affect it. 

Another year of extreme weather events and a stark warning on the climate emergency from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have shown us that there has never been a more pressing time to adapt the world economy to a net zero future.

Rathbone Greenbank Investments (Greenbank), Rathbones’ specialist ethical, sustainable and impact arm, has detailed its plan to become a net zero emissions business by 2040. This commitment covers emissions associated with its operations, supply chain and investments.

MyRathbones has replaced our Rathbones Online service and provides clients with a wider range of features and upgraded security.