All Climate change articles – Page 25
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Blog post
Do local weather conditions resonate more than global climate trends?
By Darwin Choi, Zhenyu Gao, and Wenxi Jiang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Business School
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Engagement guide
Summary: engagement on water risks in agricultural supply chains (phase 2)
Since 2015, the PRI has coordinated a collaborative engagement on water risks in agricultural supply chains. The engagement focused on these supply chains because agriculture is a major user of water, responsible for the withdrawal of 70% of the world’s freshwater.
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Blog post
A pandemic was near inevitable - so too is climate-driven disruption
By Fiona Reynolds, CEO, PRI and Ilmi Granoff, Programme Director, Sustainable Finance, ClimateWorks Foundation
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PRI Web Page
UK – China pilot on climate and environmental risk disclosure: 2nd year progress report
The PRI and seven signatories are participating in a UK and Chinese government-backed pilot on climate-related and environmental risk disclosure. Announced at the ninth UK-China Economic and Financial Dialogue, this initiative has established a leading group of UK – Chinese financial institutions to advance climate reporting practice in both countries.
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Blog post
How COVID-19 urgency can help investors tackle the climate crisis
By Fiona Reynolds, CEO, PRI
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Podcast
The Inevitable Policy Response: why signatories need to act now on climate change
Published on Earth Day 2020, in this episode, the PRI’s Director of Climate Change, Sagarika Chatterjee, and Jason Eis, Executive Director of Vivid Economics, discuss a pioneering piece of research from the PRI, Vivid Economics and Energy Transition Advisors: the Inevitable Policy Response to climate change. They discuss what exactly ...
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Blog post
COVID‐19: implications for the Inevitable Policy Response to climate change: prepare and act now
By Mark Fulton, Energy Transition Advisers, and Thomas Kansy, Vivid Economics
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Blog post
Coronavirus concerns should not divert aviation’s climate response
By Ravi Varghese, Vice President & ESG Analyst, Epoch Investment Partners, New York
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Case study
Integrating climate change in passive investments: A developed markets equity strategy
Case study by UBS Asset Management
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Technical guide
TCFD for private equity general partners
Implementing the TCFD recommendations Private equity GPs need a robust framework to assess climate-related risk and to help guide them through the transition. 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 ...
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Case study
Incorporating climate considerations into a multi-factor equity index
Case study by FTSE Russell
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Blog post
EU taxonomy final report: 2020 starts a decade of action on climate change
By Fiona Reynolds, CEO, PRI
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Podcast
Fiona Reynolds, PRI CEO, in conversation with…Nigel Topping, COP26 high-level climate action champion
In this episode of the PRI podcast, the PRI’s CEO Fiona Reynolds is joined by Nigel Topping, the COP26 High-Level Climate Action Champion. The UK will host COP26 in Glasgow in November against a backdrop of urgency; we need to reduce emissions by 50% within the next ten years to ...
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Blog post
Assessing climate risks in investors’ portfolios: a journey through climate stress-testing
By Irene Monasterolo, Assistant Professor of Climate Economics and Finance, Vienna University of Economics and Business
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PRI Web Page
FAQ on mandatory climate reporting for PRI signatories
In February last year, PRI announced that reporting against TCFD based indicators would become mandatory in 2020 for 2,085 signatories in 50 markets. The reporting framework is now live and will stay open until 31st of March.
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Blog post
The Net-zero Asset Owner Alliance: let’s begin a decade of climate action
By Sagarika Chatterjee, Director of Climate Change, PRI
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Blog post
ESG and climate change: time for corporate boards to step up their game
By Fiona Reynolds, CEO, PRI
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Webinar
The Inevitable Policy Response: preparing investors for an abrupt transition
A forceful policy response to climate change within the near term is not priced into today’s markets. Yet it is inevitable that governments will be forced to act more decisively than they have so far, leaving investor portfolios exposed to significant risk.