Heavenly rewards: impact investing

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Heavenly rewards: impact investing

• impact （对某事物）有影响，有作用
• impact investing 影响力投资；创效投资；影响投资

1. Some $23trn is placed in “sustainable” investments around the world every year, according to the Global Sustainable Investment Alliance, an industry group.

• sustainable （对自然资源和能源的利用）不破坏生态平衡的；可持续的
• Global Sustainable Investment Alliance (GSIA)全球可持续投资联盟

2. The term is nebulous: mostly it simply means avoiding funding firms that do unpalatable things, like making weapons.

• nebulous 模糊的；不清楚的
• unpalatable 令人不快的；难以接受的
• weapon 武器

3. Sustainability is only a criterion in some $750bn-worth of investments.

• Sustainability 可持续性,可持续发展

4. “Impact investing”, the sharp end of that sector, whereby funds invest in assets that offer measurable social or environmental benefits as well as financial returns, attracted just $248bn in 2016.

• whereby 借以；凭此；由于

5. Still that was more than twice the total two years earlier.

6. In 2014 the Catholic church decided to engage in impact investing.

• the Catholic church 天主教堂

7. Today, the Vatican holds its third conference on the topic.

• Vatican 梵谛冈

8. The focus this year is health, climate change, migrants and refugees, and youth employment.

• migrant 移民
• refugee 难民

9. The gathering will conclude with an invitation to those attending to make commitments.

• gathering n. 收集；采集；聚会；聚集
• conclude with 用……结束某事；以…为结束；中止

10. Investors will hope the rewards will be felt in this world as well as the next.

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