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Sustainable Finance: Newspeak
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This article explores one of several issues potentially causing difficulties within the area known as “sustainable finance”. It focuses on the use of language and raises questions around the particular style of phrasing prevalent throughout the emerging taxonomies, sustainability reports, financial products and other materials which comprise the sustainable finance market. After briefly describing examples of these issues, this article advocates returning to language and grammar which is plain and simple.
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