All Climate change articles – Page 5
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News and pressIn defence of ESG: Treating emissions in a silo will not solve the climate crisis
The below letter was drafted in response to an article in The Economist: “ESG should be boiled down to one simple measure: emissions” (July 21st 2022). An edited version was published by The Economist on August 11th 2022 and is available here.
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Article
PRI consultation response on Exposure Draft European Sustainability Reporting Standards
The PRI welcomes the publication of Exposure Draft European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) by the European Financial Advisory Group (EFRAG) and is broadly supportive of their content. Our recommendations seek to ensure that reporting under the ESRS meets the information needs of responsible investors.
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PRI Web Page
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.
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Blog post
Code of the road: new traffic lights for investors to finance the transition
Jan Vandermosten, Senior Policy Analyst, EU, PRI
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Blog post
Whoever wins the Tory leadership, progress on UK climate policies must remain a priority
By Eliette Riera, Head of UK Policy
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Technical guide
Incorporating climate change in private markets: An investor resource guide
A guide on the publicly available resources and initiatives available for direct and indirect private equity and real assets equity investors to help them incorporate climate change considerations in their investment process.
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Podcast
Incorporating human rights and climate into investment mandates
The ICGN have recently published an update of the ICGN model mandate paper alongside the GISD. In this session we will explore the paper, how it might be used and how the relationship between asset managers and asset owners has changed since the publication of the original paper in 2012.
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Workshop summary
Bringing together sovereign debt investors and climate information providers
Sovereign bondholders’ demand for data, analytics and broader information about climate change has outpaced supply from third-party providers, whose product offerings were originally developed to serve equity investors. This workshop summarises a discussion between climate information providers and a group of sovereign debt investors.
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PRI reporting analysis
Inside PRI data: asset owner action
This report analyses the responses of asset owner signatories who participated in PRI reporting in 2021. It covers asset owners’ top-level commitments, responsible investment policies, processes for selecting, appointing and monitoring managers, and climate-change strategies.
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News and press
IPR releases climate policy and progress assessment for Quarter Two
IPR releases climate policy and progress assessment for Quarter Two. Momentum still positive towards 1.8°C despite global headwinds
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Policy report
Reconciling energy security with net zero commitments (EU)
The war in Ukraine has accentuated the EU’s dependence on fossil fuel imports from Russia and further exacerbated the triple energy policy challenge – energy security, affordability, and addressing climate change – facing governments in Europe and across the globe.
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Webinar
IPR Quarterly Forecast Tracker - global climate policy, trends & technology
In the second of a new 2022 quarterly webinar series, IPR, PRI and panellists will review long term implications for PRI signatories on the biggest developments each quarter, using the 2021 FPS as a baseline to measure progress.
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Thought leadership
Q2 2022 Quarterly Forecast Tracker
This second QFT Update covers the period from April to June 2022.
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Podcast
Bringing ESG factors into sovereign debt indices
In this episode of the PRI podcast, Jasper Cox, Investment Practices Analyst at the PRI, speaks with Lupin Rahman, Head of Emerging Markets Sovereign Credit at PIMCO, and Jarrad Linzie, Global Head of Fixed Income Index Research at MSCI.
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Blog post
How best to implement net-zero pledges to achieve corporate decarbonisation
By Harrison Hong and Neng Wang, Columbia University; and Jinqiang Yang, Shanghai University of Finance
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Podcast
Why carbon pricing is needed to address the energy “trilemma”
In this episode of the PRI podcast, host Ed Baker (PRI’s Head of Climate Policy), speaks with Patrick Arber, Head of International Government Engagement at Aviva and Co-Lead of the UN-convened Asset Owner Alliance Policy Track and Karishma Gulrajani, Engagement Manager at Vivid Economics, on the AOA’s recently published position ...
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Introductory guide
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.
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Blog post
The net-zero transition in China: progress has been made, but challenges remain
By Nan Luo, Head of China, PRI
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Policy report
Reconciling energy security with net zero commitments (UK)
The war in Ukraine, alongside the unexpected, renewed focus on energy security and related debates on maintaining the focus on net zero commitments have prompted an update of the PRI’s UK climate policy roadmap (published in June 2020), which reflects the release of the UK Government’s British Energy Security Strategy ...
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Article
The ASCOR Project: Progress report
The Assessing Sovereign Climate-related Opportunities and Risks (ASCOR) Project has been established to create a tool giving investors a common understanding of sovereign exposure to climate risk and of how governments plan to transition to a low-carbon economy.
