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Thought leadershipJapan: Integrating sustainability goals across the investment industry
Many Japanese investors remain unaware of the extent to which they are permitted or required to invest for sustainability impact. This report sets out five policy recommendations to clarify this question, ensure better investor access to sustainability information, and enhance transparency and market discipline.
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Thought leadershipHow policy makers can implement reforms for a sustainable financial system: stewardship
Effective stewardship, with an explicit focus on delivering sustainability outcomes and impacts, delivers real benefits for investors and for society as a whole.
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Thought leadershipCanada: Integrating sustainability goals across the investment industry
Canadian investors may be interpreting their legal duties in ways that discourage them from considering sustainability impact goals, even where pursuing such goals can help them discharge their duty to achieve financial returns.
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Thought leadershipQ4 2022 Quarterly Forecast Tracker
This fourth QFT Update covers the period from October 2022 to December 2022.
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Thought leadershipNew IPR report examines global Race to the top on clean energy
Race to the top on clean energy – The US and EU response to China’s dominance: A new catalyst for more renewables involves a likely chain reaction of industrial policies for green industries in Western countries as evidenced in the EU Green Deal Industrial Plan.
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Thought leadershipIPR Forecast Policy Scenario + Nature
IPR FPS + Nature 2023 is the first integrated nature & climate scenario for use by investors. It fills a crucial gap in risk / opportunity assessments. FPS +N provides financial institutions with a forward-looking view to 2050 on how policy, technological and social trends could impact key value drivers.
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Thought leadershipA sustainable finance policy engagement handbook
Why investors should engage with policy makers, how they are doing so and how to get started
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Thought leadershipIPR 2022 Policy Gap Analysis
Launched during COP27, IPR’s Policy Gap Analysis assesses progress to date against the Inevitable Policy Response scenarios in the years preceding the 2025 ratchet.
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Thought leadershipThe Inevitable Policy Response: 2022 Quarterly Forecast Trackers
Building on the October 2021 IPR 1.8C Forecast Policy Scenario (FPS) and 1.5 degree Required Policy Scenario (RPS) policy suite, in 2022 IPR is issuing Quarterly Forecast Trackers (QFTs) assessing climate policy, technology and land use developments and acceleration or deceleration in policy ambition against these 2021 IPR scenarios.
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Thought leadershipIPR Supply Chain Analysis for tropical soft commodities
The new IPR supply chain analysis enables better climate risk analysis of tropical commodity supply chains by estimating value drivers and linking those to company exposure.
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Thought leadershipUK: Integrating sustainability goals across the investment industry
A number of policy measures could enable UK investors to pursue positive sustainability impacts through their investments, in particular where that is relevant to financial returns.
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Thought leadershipQ3 2022 Quarterly Forecast Tracker
This third QFT update covers the period from July to September 2022
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Thought leadershipThe US discovers its climate policy: A holistic assessment & implications
IPR has previously forecast that the US NDC would be achieved by 2030 and additionally, that the US will reach net zero by 2050.
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Thought leadershipAustralia: Integrating sustainability goals across the investment industry
Five policy and regulatory reforms could help investors pursue environmental and social goals, and two further measures should also be considered.
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Thought leadershipQ2 2022 Quarterly Forecast Tracker
This second QFT Update covers the period from April to June 2022.
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Thought leadershipHow policy makers can implement reforms for a sustainable financial system: taxonomies
Taxonomies are an essential tool that enable investors to substantiate their sustainability claims. As countries across the globe are at different stages of taxonomy development, the PRI has developed a toolkit to aid policymakers and regulators to achieve more effective and aligned taxonomies.
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Thought leadershipQ1 2022 Quarterly Forecast Tracker
This first QFT update covers the period from October 2021 (when the 2021 FPS 1.8°C FPS and 1.5°C RPS was released, pre-COP 26) to mid-April 2022
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Thought leadershipEuropean Union: Empowering investors to pursue sustainability goals
New measures are needed to enable mainstream EU investors to pursue environmental and social goals
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Thought leadershipThe Just Transition: Shaping the delivery of the Inevitable Policy Response
Professor Nick Robins analyses the growing influence of just transition on climate policy across civil society, business and finance and outlines its emergence as key factor shaping how Inevitable Policy Response (IPR) global forecasts play out on carbon pricing, clean energy, fossil fuel phase down, EVs, agriculture and land use.
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Thought leadershipUkraine War: The new geo-politics of energy and implications for climate policy
This short paper by Kaya, a specialist climate policy consultancy, has been commissioned by the Inevitable Policy Response (IPR). It assesses the initial implications for climate policy as a result of Russia’s invasion and war in Ukraine.
