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Driving Climate Justice in the Golden Age of Conscious Investment
- Investing in ethically driven, climate-positive companies is crucial for society to move forward and prosper as biodiversity is crucial to our future as a human race and ensures food security and combats disease while businesses benefits from it.
- Diversity and inclusion are necessary across organizations, in leadership, and in investment decisions, as racial disparities in learning start before formal schooling, mainly affecting marginalized groups.
- On average, math scores for Black students entering kindergarten are 21% lower than those of white students, and black and Latino populations received fewer callbacks than equally qualified white applicants in the workplace.
- Women held 38% of manager-level positions, while men held 62%, and in 2019, women received a mere 2.8% of venture capital funding across the startup ecosystem, yet they own 39% of all businesses in the US.
- A study published in PANS found that Black and Hispanic communities are exposed to far more air pollution than they produce, in addition to the high risk of sea levels rising in coastal areas where African Americans make up much of the population.
- Venture capitalists are closing the funding gap by making diversity and inclusion in investments strategies as more than 75% of VCs strongly agree that it's possible to invest in women and multicultural entrepreneurs while maximizing returns.
- VCs can use accountability practices, such as implementing diversity and sustainability in the DNA of each ethically-driven investment and ensuring for public sharing of gender and racial/ethnic diversity of a portfolio company's partners, board of directors, and C-suite.
- Delphi VC aims to keep climate change at the forefront and infuse it with capitalism, achieving diversity and sustainability in every investment that provides holistic health and wellness through frontier technology that can help move society forward and prosper.
- The private sector has the potential to change the business landscape by making conscious investments that check privilege and promote environmental conservation, racial equality, and innovation.
- This golden age of conscious investment has a bright future that can help society to move forward and prosper, as it is possible for human health, our planet's health, and racial equality to progress together.
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