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Climate change
Climate change is the highest priority ESG issue facing investors. The PRI is working to help investors protect portfolios from risks, to expose them to opportunities, and to empower them to deliver on real world impact in the shift to low carbon, resilient economies.
Getting started
An introduction to responsible investment: climate change for asset owners
This starter guide outlines the relevance of climate change to asset owners and suggests updates to investment processes, engagement and disclosures that are needed to reflect climate risk.
An introduction to responsible investment: climate metrics
This starter guide provides a succinct overview of a range of the climate metrics most commonly used and reported by investors.
Climate risk: An investor resource guide
This publication provides an overview of the many resources available to help investors manage climate risk. It includes short discussions of each of the four areas of climate risk management, links to key resources and many examples of investor disclosures.
Featured
Inevitable Policy Response
Markets today have not adequately priced in the likely near term policy response to climate change. This leaves portfolios exposed to significant risk and investors need to act now to protect and enhance value. That’s why PRI have launched this project, to provide investors with a realistic forecasting tool to help navigate this complex and evolving landscape.
Climate Programmes and Investor Initiatives
Implementation is key for investors’ net zero commitments. A significant proportion of PRI signatories have set near term net zero targets and deliver on their commitments for investor/corporate action (consistent with the Paris Agreement and 1.5°C ), though PRI-led or PRI-supported initiatives, including the UN-convened Net Zero Asset Owner Alliance. ...
Climate Guidance and Tools
A collection of climate related guidance and tools including introductory guides, climate reporting to the PRI and technical guides.
Initiatives
The PRI and COP27
COP27, the annual UN climate conference, took place last year in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. It represented what is likely to be the final opportunity to take global collective action on the climate crisis and achieve net zero emissions across the economy in line with the Paris Agreement.
Archive/Previous resources: PRI and COP26
PRI thought leadership on climate
PRI’s ambitious thought leadership programme seeks to advance new topics for discussion in the industry and seek practitioners’ feedback, as well as advancing industry initiatives aimed at improving the data and disclosures available to investors on climate change.
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