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AODP – what’s next in 2019?
Global asset manager ranking This year's main research project undertaken by ShareAction AODP will explore how the world's largest asset managers approach responsible investment issues in their investment processes, decision-making and their engagement with companies....
World’s Largest Pension Funds Ignoring Climate Breakdown – How Can They Fix It?
As long-term and diversified investors, pension funds are exposed to a variety of financially material climate-related risks and opportunities. In addition to physical risks such as extreme weather events and long-term climate system changes, pension funds also face...
Despite widespread backing, less than 20% of global pension funds intend to report aligned with TCFD
Earlier in the month we were excited to launch our second AODP survey in 2018, shining our spotlight on the largest global public pension funds. We assessed pension funds representing over $11 trillion in assets under management (AUM), holding immense power, influence...
It’s Raining Claims: Climate Change, Extreme Weather and the Insurance Sector
Behind 2014 and 2012, 2017 was the third-warmest year recorded since 1894. The trend of global warming has coincided with a torrent of weather-related disasters, and 2017 was no exception. Across the planet, droughts, floods, raging forest fires, and hurricanes...
Global Insurers Must Adapt to a Changing Climate to Survive
Climate catastrophe losses have been a feature of the insurance industry for years – the Hiscox results this week were a timely reminder that these events have real implications for earnings, profits and business strategy. Climate events made sure 2017 was an...
We Need a ‘High Ambition Coalition’ Within the Institutional Investment Sector
Christiana Figueres, the former Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, is fond of reminding investors that global carbon emissions must peak in 2020 and bend steadily downwards thereafter. It’s a daunting proposition but the investment...
Norway’s Divestment of Oil and Gas: A Nordic Utopia or Just Economic Sense?
We review the logic behind Norway’s central bank’s proposal to reduce the exposure of the Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG) to quoted oil and gas equities.
FSB Task Force v 1.0 just the very beginning
“Events dear boy, events” was the famous quote by former UK Prime minister Harold MacMillan and has since been used as a paraphrase for every situation where planning and scope management are taken over by reality. This is the world of the FSB Task Force on Climate...
What’s changed since our 2015 Index?
Over a year ago, we released our third Global Climate 500 Report. We found that close to 85% of investors were doing little or refusing to disclose their strategies, and only 2% of investors could calculate their emissions intensity. Meanwhile, the leaders were...