Sustainable Finance Is Growing in the World’s Worst-Polluting Country
Thursday, February 21, 2019
By Emily Chasan
Tao Zhang is bullish on sustainability in China—especially when it comes to livestock emissions. The founder of U.S.-China impact investing consortium Dao Ventures has spent much of the past year looking to accelerate investment in more environmentally friendly plant-based or lab-grown meat for Chinese consumers through a new company, Dao Foods.
Climate change activists are worried that China’s increasing appetite for meat is further straining natural resources and causing methane emissions to soar. Yet Zhang and a new crop of impact investors believe that this, and China’s many other environmental and social concerns, can be solved with capital.
Photo courtesy of Global Water Forum.
Source: Bloomberg (link opens in a new window)
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