Ethical Corp 10/02/19 Climate change: Pension funds still lag too far behind
To make climate change a material factor in investment analysis and decision-making, pension funds really need to raise their game, argues Rory Sullivan.
In January 2010, the Investor Network on Climate Risk published a report examining how US asset managers take account of climate change-related risks and opportunities in their investment processes. The findings were broadly similar to the findings of similar studies from the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change, namely that relatively few investors integrate consideration of climate change risks and opportunities across all of their assets, that investors are still developing the tools necessary to analyse these risks and opportunities, and that the primary focus is regulation, with adaptation receiving relatively little attention. Read more.
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