New Capital Consensus is a coalition of non-commercial, apolitical organisations that have come together to explore how the current UK investment system contributes to the country’s current problems of low productivity, inequality and low levels of investment. Its objective is to find ways to release investment capital to address societal problems, like those above and in particular, to green the economy.
We believe addressing these problems requires us to:
We will focus not only on those beneficial policy changes that can be affected within the current system but - recognising that current market structures have developed in an anachronistic way - also those that require changes to current market structures, approaches and beliefs.
The NCC coalition of organisations comprises Finstic (Financial Systems Thinking Innovation Centre), University of Leeds and Radix Big Tent and is incubated at Chatham House Sustainability Accelerator. Chatham House, the Royal Institute of International Affairs, is an independent policy institute based in London. Its mission is to help build a sustainably secure, prosperous and just world. Chatham House does not express opinions of its own. The opinions expressed in this publication are the responsibility of the authors.