Climate change for private markets
Private markets investors have a critical role to play on climate change, through both their investment selections and management of portfolio companies and assets. This resource hub provides private markets investors with easy access to key tools, guides and insights to support their actions on the path to Net Zero and on building more resilient companies and assets.
Technical guides
Technical guide: TCFD for real assets investors
Implementing the recommendations of the Taskforce for Climate-related Financial Disclosures in physical assets like property, infrastructure, forestry and farmland.
TCFD for private equity general partners: technical guide
This guide sets out the actions that private equity general partners (GPs) can take to address the four-pillar framework of the recommendations proposed by the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD).
How to invest in the low-carbon economy
Institutional investors’ responsibility to manage and protect their beneficiaries’ assets must include considering the impacts of climate change.
A guide on climate change for private equity investors
Questions that LPs can ask their GPs, and that GPs can ask current or potential portfolio companies, to assess climate change impacts on private equity investments.
Sustainable real estate investment: Implementing the Paris climate agreement
Identify key drivers and overcome the most common barriers to action for integrating ESG and climate change risks into real estate investments.
Case studies
STOA SDG case study
Signatory type: Private equity investor / Asset ownerOperating region: Developing countriesAssets under management: €180 millionSDG targets: SDGs 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 & 13Practice area: Engagement for impact
Bringing forest projects to the carbon markets
Case study by Campbell Global
Blogs
Podcasts
Real assets investing and climate change: implementing the TCFD recommendations
In this episode of the PRI podcast, our real assets lead Simon Whistler talks to Rick Alsop from WSP about climate risks and opportunities for real assets investors.
Insight
Climate change snapshot 2020
TCFD based reporting and analysis from 2,097 investors representing $97 trillion in assets
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