A total 62 percent of active investors say global warming could affect their investment decisions, following the UK’s warmest 12-month period on record. Some 14 percent of 1,000 active investors polled by the Association of Investment Companies (AIC) said climate change would definitely affect their investment decisions and 48 percent said it might do.

Annabel Brodie-Smith, communications director at the AIC, said: “With 2007 predicted to be the warmest year ever, it’s obvious that global warming has become an issue for active investors.”