A community-built sustainable finance library
Altiorem is a not for profit library and resource dedicated to supporting advocates for a sustainable financial system.
Overview
Altiorem is the world’s first community built sustainable finance library. We collect, curate, summarise and categorise the wealth of research on sustainability issues like biodiversity loss and climate change. Our mission is to support finance and other business professionals in incorporating these issues in their work and to help them make the case for more sustainable business practices.
We work with universities, who’s students volunteer to summarise and translate often complex research for a finance and business audience. Student volunteers work with industry professionals who mentor them through to publication, ensuring each summary draws out key insights and meets our high publishing standards.
Why use it?
There is a wealth of high quality freely available information available to support advocates in making the case for and implementing the changes need to create a sustainable financial system, however, these can be hard to find, too long or technical for people that don't have sustainability as their day job. Altiorem summarises leading research, connects it together, and makes is accessible to the finance community. Altiorem uses the doughnut economics framework to help guide our work.
Who is it for?
Anyone interested in engaging with the financial system including; finance professionals (investment, insurance, banking) business people, regulators, students and journalists.
How long does it take?
It's free to join and is an open access resource.
What materials do you need?
Altiorem is community built. Our volunteers are university students and industry professionals working together to create a valuable resource for the whole industry. We welcome members of the library. Those wishing to contribute can join our community of volunteers.
Acknowledgements
Altiorem couldn't exist without the generous support of our funders, primarily Stewart Investors, our university partners including UTS, Monash University, UNSW and Macquarie University, web developers Canvas Group, and most of all our community and team made up of more than a 100 volunteers.
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Alex Bernat
Louisville, Colorado, United States of America
I am an emerging idea creator and systemic change-maker, and I am enthusiastically curious to meet mentors and collaborators. I believe that by changing the properties of the currencies we use, we can make it most profitable for individuals and communities to cultivate the common good. I fight for all people to have universal basic access to well-being without cost; for the planet's wild places and natural systems to thrive in perpetuity; and for the new systems we create to be safe, equitable, and liberating for all people. You can learn more about my work to revolutionize the currencies we use at https://www.make-money-better.com/
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Pablo Berrutti
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
I am a passionate and experienced financial services professional, committed to working with others to drive a real shift towards a sustainable, ethical and resilient financial system. I am also a husband, father of two children (and two dogs!) and enjoy sport, cooking and brewing beer. Professionally, I am the senior investment specialist for Stewart Investors. I am also the co-founder and managing director of Altiorem, a not-for-profit library and resource centre dedicated to helping people inside and outside finance to advocate for a sustainable financial system. Information on Altiorem can be found at www.altiorem.org. I also sit on the advisory committee of UNSW's Human Rights Institute. I was previously the head of responsible investment Asia Pacific for First Sentier Investors and have been a director and chair of the Responsible Investment Association of Australasia, director of the Investor Group on Climate Change.
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Kate Copeland-Rhodes
Uttoxeter, England, United Kingdom
Director of The Globe Group CIC and founder of The Globe Foundation, I am involved in developing place-based net zero programmes including the development of Staffordshire & Stoke Climate Commission and the Staffordshire & Stoke-On-Trent COP.
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Tom Owen-Smith
Lambeth, London Borough of Lambeth, England, United Kingdom
Doughnut Economics is an inspirational text, and I am keen to be part of building it out to change our economy and society. I am the Sustainability lead at SUMS Consulting – we are a not-for-profit membership organisation providing consultancy services to the university sector, mostly in the UK. One aim is to make universities run sustainably and in harmony with their place. Universities are also at the centre of knowledge production and can make big contributions to the paradigm shift through their research, education and ability to bring people together. I hope to learn from this community and share ideas for change – both for my work and for living my own life.
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Carolina Connor
