wanted to prevent the clearing of the forest for an open cast lignite mine operated by the energy company r. w. e. a corporate governance expert at deakin investment urge our deputy to be prudent and far sighted the time when investors focus solely on returns seems to be over more and more investors want to know where their money ends up they prefer renewable energies and reject environmental destruction and arms trading while sustainable investment funds so-called green funds still accounted for a volume of twelve billion u.s. dollars and twenty thirteen this volume is growing rapidly this year the ratings agency moody's already expects two hundred fifty billion dollars the good news is that high returns often go very well with environmental protection social responsibility and good corporate governance in london for example fund manager charlie thomas invests large sums for his clients in sustainable investments when i took over found in two thousand and three there were strangely ten companies what you could say is that how that's changed. in the last kind of fifteen years that we've now it's