Copyright

Luke Kemp; Haydn Belfield; Ellen Quigley; Julius Weitzdörfer; SJ Beard

Published On

2024-09-03

Page Range

pp. 641–694

Language

  • English

Print Length

54 pages

23. Financing Our Final Hour

Chapter of: An Anthology of Global Risk (pp. 641–694)

Responding to the issues raised by the global divestment movement, this chapter explores institutional investors' involvement in campaigns on global risks, and the potential motivations that are behind their actions. The authors find compelling grounds for investors to manage global risk via their investment strategies, built on a range of legal, ethical, economic and political considerations. The authors also propose tactics by which institutional investors can utilise their money to reduce global risk, exploring the investor campaigns as possible tools for preventing risk and tackling dual-use technologies with global risk potential. Arguing that investor campaigns can provide a way in which investors and activists can work together, this chapter advocates for a safer future.

Contributors

Luke Kemp

(author)
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3816-564X

Luke Kemp is a Faculty Fellow at the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Studies.

Haydn Belfield

(author)

Ellen Quigley

(author)
Principal Research Associate, the Co-Director of Finance for Environmental and Social Systemic Change, and the Special Adviser (Responsible Investment) to the Chief Financial Officer at University of Cambridge

Ellen Quigley is a Principal Research Associate, the Co-Director of Finance for Environmental and Social Systemic Change, and the Special Adviser (Responsible Investment) to the Chief Financial Officer, all at the University of Cambridge. https://www.landecon.cam.ac.uk/person/dr-ellen-quigley

Julius Weitzdörfer

(author)
Professor of Japanese Studies and East Asian Law at University of Hagen
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=4Stozb8AAAAJ

Julius Weitzdörfer is a Professor of Japanese Studies and East Asian Law at FernUniversität Hagen.

SJ Beard

(author)
Centre for the Study of Existential Risk
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2834-0993
https://sjbeard.weebly.com/

SJ Beard is a Senior Research Associate and Academic Programme Manager at the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk at the University of Cambridge, an Associated Researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies and an AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker. SJ Beard works on the Evaluation of Extreme Technological Risks, and other ethical problems with ensuring a long term future for humanity. They also have a wide range of skills and experiences producing high quality research, training and analysis across education and public affairs.