How green is your money? ⏲️ 6 Minute English

When we keep our money in a bank, it is invested to fund other businesses, some of which are far from environmentally friendly. Beth and Neil discuss this and teach you some useful vocabulary.👇👇👇
❓❓❓ This week's question:
Which of these is the best way to fight climate change?
a) stop eating meat
b) stop flying
c) change your pension
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Vocabulary:
✔️green - inexperienced, naïve or ignorant
✔️niche - interesting or appealing only to a small, specialised group of people
✔️greenwashing - attempts by businesses to appear environmentally friendly without actually doing anything serious to protect the environment
✔️jump on the bandwagon - become involved in an activity because it is popular and likely to succeed, not because you are really interested in it
✔️transparent - easy to see and understand because it is open and honest, without hidden secrets
✔️put the spotlight on (something) - focus on or attract attention to something, usually to share information about something bad
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VOCABULARY FORM VIDEO How green is your money? ⏲ 6 Minute English
1. Sustainable : able to be used without being completely used up or destroyed
2. Ethical: involving questions of right and wrong behavior relating to ethics
3. Bandwagon:a popular activity, effort, cause, etc., that attracts growing support - usually singular
4. Transparency: the quality that makes it possible to see through something
5. Green : inexperienced, naïve or ignorant
6. Niche : interesting or appealing only to a small, specialised group of people
7. Greenwashing : attempts by businesses to appear environmentally friendly without actually doing anything serious to protect the environment
8. Jump on the bandwagon : become involved in an activity because it is popular and likely to succeed, not because you are really interested in it
9. Transparent : easy to see and understand because it is open and honest, without hidden secrets
10. Put the spotlight on (something) : focus on or attract attention to something, usually to share information about something bad
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My summary while listening
Even if we keep our money in the banks, our money doesn't just sit there. It's often invested to fund other businesses. Some of which are far from environmentally friendly. In this program, the ways in which money can help protect the environment will be discussed.
According to John Fleetwood, who has worked in sustainable investing for decades, public interest in ethical banks has ballooned in the last few years. Ethical banks used to be considered niche. As the environmentally responsible investing increased, banks started to jump on the bandwagon. As a result, some banks have been accused of greenwashing.
From the point of view of Richard Curtis, a British film director, the more people demand responsible pensions, the more banks have to be transparent. This concern puts the spotlight on how pension funds are being used, such as supporting large oil companies or renewable energy companies.

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What does ‘change your pension’ mean?

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It means change where the money in your pension is being invested.

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@@bbclearningenglish 'Pension' is quite a new word to me! I was hoping if you could explain it, please?

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@@Brian-fo6ew Ah, I see! A pension is money that you receive after you finish working (when you are retired). In the UK, when we work, we pay into a pension. We get this money, and some money from the government, regularly each week or month after the age of around 65.

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​@@bbclearningenglishIn Argentina, a "pension" is money that the government gives a person every month in special situations. For example in case of a physical or mental disability. Is what you call a pension a "jubilación" for us?

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Let sustainable and environmentally friendly funds earn high returns. and then the money will move to there naturally.

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I am green and naive to invest my pension. A niche is intrerest in investing. Bmany banks are green washing. If we learn how to invest
,putting the spotlight on the financial investment and jumping on the bandwagon and then will be successful.

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Banks have started to jump on the bandwagon for environmentally responsible investments because people are putting the spotlight on the transparency of the investments of banks These banks are niche for some people. However, this might lead to greenwashing because the banks want green people to put their money there.

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Would you mind telling me the meaning of the phrase 'ethical bank has ballooned', please.

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Green money

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What does it mean "greenwashing" please?

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'Greenwashing' is when a company tries to make its customers believe that its products are more environmentally friendly than they really are. For example, the company might say 'look at our recyclable packaging' to make the customer believe that the product is 'green' even though the product might actually be very damaging to the environment.

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If we can grow money tree, will the earth be greener? 😅

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