Synopsis

Faith groups aren’t just moral voices: the world’s faiths run 50% of all schools; a third of all universities; more than a third of all medical facilities; own about 8% of the habitable surface of the planet; and are probably the 5th largest investing group in the world...... as such important stakeholders in our global community, how should they invest their resources for the environment? Let’s find out more in the talk! 

About the speaker

Martin Palmer is co-founder with HRH The late Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh of the Alliance on Religions and Conservation (ARC), and founding President and CEO of Faithinvest. He is a Fellow of the Club of Rome and Special Advisor to many faith networks as well as to the UN and World Bank. Martin studied Theology, Religious Studies and Chinese at Cambridge (1973-6) after a year as a volunteer in Hong Kong from 1972 -3 where he learnt to read Classical Chinese and speak Cantonese. Martin is a regular contributor to BBC programmes and has written over twenty books on faiths. He is one of the foremost translators of Chinese Classics, including the Dao De Jing, the Yijing and the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, most of these for Penguin Classics. He is an active Anglican Lay Preacher and is married to the writer and former SCMP journalist Victoria Finlay.