Cultivating a Community of
Sustainable Finance Leaders

  • “What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?”

    ― Henry David Thoreau

  • “To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed.”

    ― Theodore Roosevelt

  • “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”

    – Margaret Mead

  • “Anything else you’re interested in is not going to happen if you can’t breathe the air and drink the water

    — Carl Sagan

  • “Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth… these are one and the same fight.”

    — Ban Ki-moon

  • “Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.”

    – Edmund Burke

  • “We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.”

    – Native American Proverb

  • “Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”

    – Archbishop Desmond Tutu

  • “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”

    – Anne Frank

  • “Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.”

    – Jean Paul Richter

  • “You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.”

    – Jane Goodall

  • “The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it.”

    – Robert Swan

  • “You make better decisions when you are focused on the right mission.”

    – Mary Barra

OUR MISSION

Finpublica is a global non-profit that inspires and empowers finance leaders to develop and achieve their own environmental, social and governance goals by cultivating a deeply engaged community, providing accessible and actionable content, and serving as a catalyst for action. We are focused on:

  • Cultivating a global community of leaders from across the finance industry and providing a space to meet, learn from, and support one another.

  • Providing accessible and actionable content, including open-source educational resources and tools, so anyone can get up to speed on key sustainable finance issues in minutes.

  • Catalyzing action by helping members identify and execute sustainable finance (including environmental, social, and governance) initiatives inside and outside their organizations.