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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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The 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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Q2 2022 Quarterly Forecast Tracker
This second QFT Update covers the period from April to June 2022.
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How policy makers can implement reforms for a sustainable financial system – part 2
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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The 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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Q1 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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The 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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Ukraine 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.
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Are the TCFD recommendations useful for credit risk analysis?
Read about how investors and credit rating agencies use the information provided by companies following the recommendations of the Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosures in their credit risk analysis.
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Diversity, equity & inclusion: Key action areas for investors
Investors need to expand their focus beyond gender and diversity and address issues such as inclusion, equity and other characteristics to truly benefit from DEI
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IPR and PACTA - The new Transition Disruption Metric
The Transition Disruption Metric (TDM) is based in the IPR 2021 Forecast Policy Scenario (FPS) scenario developed by IPR
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The Inevitable Policy Response 2021: Forecast Policy Scenario and 1.5C Required Policy Scenario
New 2021 Forecast Policy Scenario from IPR shows rapid policy acceleration by 2025 would bring ‘below 2C’ Paris Agreement within reach
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Broadening the outreach to investment consultants
Investment consultants are critical stakeholders in the investment chain, advising institutional asset owners on a range of issues, including the selection, appointment and monitoring of external managers. They can play a key role in supporting asset owners to develop responsible investment practices, and to assess their investment managers’ ESG incorporation ...
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Private retirement systems and sustainability: Japan
An analysis of the $2,854bn private retirement system in Japan and how policy and structural characteristics affect sustainability.
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Global trends in corporate tax disclosure
Corporate tax practices are coming under increasing scrutiny from governments and investors, amid concerns about the use of aggressive tax avoidance practices. Companies employing strategies such as profit shifting could be exposing themselves to growing reputational and regulatory risks, which have the potential to directly impact their profitability.
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Mapping natural capital depletion
As natural capital is depleted, it loses its capacity to support the ecosystem services upon which businesses, economic activities and broader society depend. PRI collaborated with UNEP-WCMC to developed maps to showcase hotspots of relative natural capital depletion on a global scale, available for visualisation in ENCORE, accompanied by a ...
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Understanding and aligning with beneficiaries’ sustainability preferences
This guide seeks to help asset owners learn about and incorporate beneficiary preferences, which should be a fundamental aspect of an asset owner’s investment strategy, policy and strategic asset allocation.
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The Inevitable Policy Response 2021: Policy Forecasts
The IPR 2021 policy forecast is a thoroughly revised and updated set of policy forecasts, reflecting further detailed research on current and proposed policies, with input from global policy experts. The policy forecasts were updated in October 2021 to reflect developments between March 2021 to COP 26 and form the ...
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How policy makers can implement reforms for a sustainable financial system
The PRI and the World Bank’s Financial Stability and Integrity Team are working to support government policy makers and regulators in implementing reforms to build a sustainable financial system. This toolkit provides a high-level overview of five foundational sustainable investment policies.
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Sector pathways to net zero emissions
The UN-convened Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance commissioned the Institute for Sustainable Futures (ISF) at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) to apply their One Earth Climate model to sectors as defined by sector classification schemes commonly used in finance.
