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Oct
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2020
The Financial Times: Climate concerns reaching 'tipping point' for family offices
Just months after the 2015 Paris climate change agreement was sealed, Giorgiana Notarbartolo decided it was time to talk to her family about money.
Following the historic pact that committed its almost 200 signatory countries to limit global warming to less than 2C above pre-industrial levels, 36-year-old Notarbartolo decided it was time to consider how her family office’s wealth should be invested with environmental and social issues in mind.
Descended from Gaetano Marzotto, who in the 19th century began the expansion of the family wool mill in north-east Italy into what would become a fashion empire, Giorgiana’s family now consists of more than 100 people with “significant wealth to be steered”.
