All Climate change articles – Page 27
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Technical guideImplementing TCFD recommendations for oil and gas methane disclosure
The Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosure (TCFD or the Task Force) published its final recommendations in 2017, and now both companies and investors are moving towards implementation of TCFD’s recommendations.
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WebinarClimate scenario & PACTA tool
The PRI hosted a webinar on climate scenario analysis and the online PACTA climate scenario analysis tool. This tool, developed by 2⁰ Investing Initiative (2dii), was launched in September 2018 with the support of the Insurance Commissioner of California and the PRI.
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WebinarDr. Ma Jun addresses PRI in Person 2018
Dr. Ma Jun provides an update on green finance in China, including the G20 Sustainable Finance Study Group and the Central Bank Network of Green Finance.
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News and pressTake action on climate now or risk disruptive policies in future
If investors and governments do not ramp up their actions on climate change now, then they risk a more disruptive transition in future as governments will be compelled to impose forceful measures, which could trigger a phase of market volatility.
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Thought leadershipImpact investing market map
Over the last decade, impact investing has shifted from a disruptive investment concept to a complex and rich investment ecosystem.
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Thought leadershipImpact investing market map: Water
Water is considered a multi-impact investment because it affects the microclimate, food supply, industrial chain, health, productivity and the environment overall.
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Thought leadershipImpact investing market map: Sustainable forestry
UN agencies and international conventions have created basic definitions and conditions for sustainable forestry, but these are not acknowledged or adopted by all countries.
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Thought leadershipImpact investing market map: Renewable energy
Non-conventional energy generation is one of the most well-known industries in the impact investing field, having evolved from an illiquid or early-stage impact market to a mainstream market in the past 15 years.
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Thought leadershipImpact investing market map: Energy efficiency
Energy efficiency is often associated with clean technology companies, green energy enterprises and smart or eco products (such as washing machines that consume less energy or hybrid cars).
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Thought leadershipInitial considerations
While impact investing is a new paradigm for the investment community, there are still many gaps and issues that need to be addressed to take it to the mainstream.
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Thought leadershipImpact investing market map: Green buildings
Green building projects are well known to companies in this field, as well as by investors and policy makers.
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Thought leadershipImpact investing market map: Sustainable agriculture
Sustainable agriculture as a thematic investment is relatively new in the impact investing industry; but while few companies currently work or invest in this area, it is a growing market.
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ArticleLes investisseurs face au changement climatique
Dans l’ensemble, les investisseurs internationaux ont progressé en matière d’action climatique en 2017. En atteste la vigilance accrue des investisseurs institutionnels sur l’exposition de leurs investissements au climat, leur engagement auprès des entreprises, sans compter la dynamique française suite à l’adoption de l’article 173.
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Technical guideLow-carbon investing and low-carbon indices
For off-the-shelf fund solutions, investing against lowcarbon indices is a potentially lower-cost option than actively managed strategies.
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Technical guideLow-carbon investing and listed equity funds
While the public markets comprise a smaller portion of the clean energy investment universe compared to asset finance and unlisted assets (including infrastructure, private equity and venture capital), activity in the acquisitions market has steadily grown over recent decades, reflecting the larger size of the renewable energy sector (see below).
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Technical guidePhasing out investments in thermal coal
While many investors may consider phasing out thermal coal alongside reductions to other fossil fuel assets (such as oil sands, crude oil, natural gas and metallurgical coal), this section focuses on thermal coal assets as a starting point due to their high CO2 content (and potential for carbon reduction), the ...
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Technical guideIntegrating climate-related risks and opportunities into investment processes
The PRI defines integration as “the explicit and systematic inclusion of [climate change] issues in investment analysis and investment decisions.”
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Technical guideLow-carbon, climate-aligned investment opportunities
The shift towards renewable energy is building, recording its highest growth rate of any energy source recorded in 2017.
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Technical guideLow-carbon investing and green and climate-aligned bonds
Climate (or climate-aligned) bonds refer to labelled and unlabelled bonds for which proceeds are intended to finance projects and activities that contribute to a low-carbon and climate-resilient economy. Green bonds refers to explicitly labelled bonds for which the proceeds will be exclusively used to finance, or re-finance (in part or ...
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Technical guideLow-carbon investing and unlisted strategies and assets
Investments in clean energy across unlisted asset classes (such as property, private equity, infrastructure, agriculture and timberland) and projects (such as renewable energy and energy efficiency projects) is clearly growing (see below).
