Why sustainable financial planning has to become the default

The urgency of climate change demands a profound shift in the way we conduct ourselves as financial planners. Factoring sustainability into financial planning is no longer merely a moral choice; it's becoming a fiduciary imperative. Our world is facing a novel, wicked and dynamic problem in climate breakdown and biodiversity loss.  We are in a poly-crisis of nature, climate, plastic, pollution chemical and social inequality. This much is well known. Yet as financial planners, we are – on the whole – basing our advice and service offerings on assumptions about the future that do not ad...