All Thought leadership articles – Page 3
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Thought leadershipPathways to net zero: scenario architecture for strategic resilience testing and planning
Climate change poses a systemic risk to institutional investors. All portfolios are exposed to it, yet the impacts will be uneven across asset classes, sectors and geographies.
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Thought leadershipInvesting with SDG outcomes: a five-part framework
This report provides a high-level framework for any investors looking to shape real-world outcomes in line with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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Thought leadershipInvesting with SDG outcomes: a five-part framework (Introduction)
Introduction: Investors and the SDGs
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Thought leadershipInvesting with SDG outcomes: a five-part framework (Appendix 1 - 3 Tools & Investor examples)
Appendix 1 - 3 Tools & Investor examples
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Thought leadershipInvesting with SDG outcomes: a five-part framework (A five-part framework for investors)
A five-part framework for investors
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Thought leadershipThe inevitable water finance response: investor risks and opportunities
Investors are not managing existing water risk, let alone taking advantage of upside opportunities through better water-related investment. Forward-looking investors will develop investment channels for sustainable and productive water management and fundamentally re-align how they understand water risks.
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Thought leadershipThe inevitable forest finance response: investor opportunities
Forest finance, historically dominated by public sector support, will increasingly be delivered by the private sector. Recent innovations in green finance make private sector participation in the forest sector possible, while the sheer scale of forest recovery required make that participation necessary.
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Thought leadershipAre national infrastructure plans SDG-aligned, and how can investors play their part?
Table & Sub-menu styles Sub-menu Executive summary Investors are under increasing pressure to demonstrate that their investments support improved environmental, social and governance (ESG) outcomes, and infrastructure has an essential role to play in governments achieving their national sustainability goals. Investors and governments should therefore work ...
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Thought leadershipImplications for strategic asset allocation
New analysis in this report forecasts an abrupt and disruptive policy response to climate change which will cause re-pricing of many of the world’s most valuable companies by 2025.
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Thought leadershipFiduciary duty in the 21st century final report
This report describes how the integration of economic, social and governance (ESG) issues into investment practice and decision making is an increasingly standard part of the regulatory and legal requirements for institutional investors, along with requirements to consider the sustainability-related preferences of their clients and beneficiaries.
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Thought leadershipForecast Policy Scenario: macroeconomic results
The Forecast Policy Scenario (FPS), introduced in this report, models the impact of the forecasted policies on the real economy up to 2050, tracing detailed effects on all emitting sectors, including changes to energy demand (oil, gas, coal), transport, food prices, crop yields, and rates of deforestation.
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Thought leadershipBusiness and investor public support for Climate Transition Policy: creating a mandate for action
Business and investor support for action play an important part of “why” this policy response is likely to emerge over the next 6 years. These give an economic and market mandate to policy makers for action.
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Thought leadershipWhat is the Inevitable Policy Response?
Financial markets today have not adequately priced-in the likely near-term policy response to climate change. The Inevitable Policy Response (IPR) is a pioneering project which aims to prepare investors for the associated portfolio risks.
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Thought leadershipThe trillion dollar energy windfall
Falling renewable electricity costs play an important part of “why” a policy response is likely to occur. And the arrival at new tipping points within sectors and countries over the next decade informs “when” this response is likely to materialise.
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Thought leadershipWhy a just transition is crucial for effective climate action
The concept of a just transition has emerged as a key pillar of climate strategy; it is crucial to understanding ‘where’ the impact of policies will be felt and ‘what’ policies will be used.
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Thought leadershipA Legal Framework for Impact
A joint work programme from PRI, UNEP FI and the Generation Foundation
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Thought leadershipBuilding a structured framework for ESG consideration in credit risk analysis
Roundtable discussions began considering the various steps that need to be taken to help build a more structured and systematic framework for ESG consideration in credit risk analysis. Three potentially significant steps have been identified so far.
