Discuss the tensions between the financial sustainability and the environmental sustainability of pension fund and other investments.

This 3000 word paper is for a module called Geographies of Money, Finance and Debt, but it has strong underpinnings of International Development. Focus on the British context would be preferred, and preferably a British writer. Key thing with this question is to discuss the ‘financial sustainability’ dimensions of pensions and other investments, i.e. all the reasons why there is already so much pressure on the financial sustainability of pensions (i.e. ageing population, declines in global growth, etc.). These challenges to the financial sustainability of pension are undoubtedly the backdrop to the pressure among asset managers and other investors and savers to keep investing in ‘dirty’ (but profitable) sectors in the global economy such as fossil fuels/weapons etc. So, discuss this overall context within which the tension between financial/environmental sustainability is playing out, rather than just focusing on the environmentally problematic nature of many investments.