By Utkarsh Narain and Shyam Datye
“Accountants are going to save the world!”, claimed Peter Bakker, the Chairman of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development at the UN Conference on Sustainable Development in 2013. Green finance might just be their opportunity to do that.
COVID-19 has brought the issue of sustainability into sharp focus across the world. Whether it’s the disproportionate impact of strict lockdowns on underserved groups or decrease in pollution levels because of the slowdown in economic activity, the pandemic has spurred a global dialogue on the socio-economic and environmental costs of continuing with ‘business as usual’.
