Life Below Water
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Sustainability Report 2020
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Thought leadership
Delivering best-in-class, sustainable solutions to our clients starts with thought leadership. Credit Suisse produces regular thought leadership pieces and research to inform investors and the wider public on key sustainability issues, partnering with prominent practitioners in the field and drawing on our global network of analysts, strategists and economists. In 2020, we published a number of reports highlighting emerging sector trends and themes, including the rise of alternative proteins and in particular their increasing popularity in Asia, as well as our publications on investors and the blue economy, focusing on SDG 14:
When the COVID-19 pandemic struck in early 2020, we recognized that the great challenges it brought also made apparent the need to transform the education industry through education technology, highlighting trends and opportunities for investors as well as the positive impact of Education Technology (EdTech) in achieving UN SDG 4: Quality Education. We also launched our ongoing “Exploring Impact” series, in which we examine developments in the sustainable and impact investing sector.
The Credit Suisse Research Institute (CSRI) is Credit Suisse’s in-house think tank. It studies long-term economic developments that have a global impact within and beyond the financial services sector. The CSRI publishes original research on topics ranging from economics and monetary policy to gender equality and consumer behavior as well as sustainability. In 2020, the CSRI published sustainability-related reports on the long-term implications of COVID-19 on existing trends, the impact of the pandemic on the distribution of wealth and the energy transition.
What Will Last? The Long-Term Implications of COVID-19: The report suggests that rather than radically changing the world, the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated existing trends.
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Global Wealth Report 2020: The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered the worst global economic crisis since the Second World War and affected human life in boundless ways. The Global Wealth Report 2020 examined the impact of the outbreak on wealth and the distribution of wealth.
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Climate Change: The Energy Transition: CSRI organized a forum bringing together a dozen renowned specialists and members of Credit Suisse’s top management to discuss these defining and current issues.
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Water Scarcity: Addressing the Key Challenges: Water scarcity, and the societal risks it poses, is one of the primary challenges faced by the world today. The report called for action to be taken on a coordinated global basis.
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Rethinking Retirement: The report took an in-depth look at the most important pension and retirement-related questions and trends.
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Global ESG Equity Strategy - Beyond the Pandemic: The Green-Shaped Recovery: This report uses our proprietary global policy database to construct sensitivity analysis, concluding that the market is underestimating the scale and impact of green stimulus at the global level. Breaking the stimulus into four key themes: Energy Transition; Transport & Infrastructure; Energy Efficiency; and the Circular Economy, we outline key drivers and key beneficiaries.