ESG Special Reports – Page 8
-
Special ReportClimate change risk metrics: The rising tide
The industry is now seeing an expansion in data-driven practices, with new climate datasets emerging and becoming mainstream. Climate change itself is a phenomenon comprised of many interlinked processes, each with their own risks and uncertainties. To cater to the growing demand for quantitative climate change risk metrics, vendors have begun to explicitly model climate change risk.
-
Special Report
Impact investing as a way to support the transition to a low carbon economy
The transition to a low carbon economy requires political will, a carrot-and-stick approach and the investment of significant resources. The public sector won’t be able to finance the transition alone. Governments shall continue to support market investments in companies and technologies providing solutions to environmental problems. We identify some attractive investment opportunities for impact investing.
-
Special ReportMaking sense of ESG Data: How to Quantify SDG Contribution
Sustainability is one of the world’s most prevalent topics, and within asset management investors are accordingly shifting their portfolios towards environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) investing. As a result of this increased demand for ESG investing, various frameworks have emerged such as ESG rating, ESG metrics and Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) impact. These frameworks are defined by a vast amount of data and specific methodologies in order to measure the exposure. This poses a challenge for investors due to the necessity to understand the complexity of sustainability while also dealing with the quantity of available data.
-
Special ReportPGIM Fixed Income case study— filtering Asian Green Bonds through our framework
Issuers have myriad incentives—often including a lower cost of capital than a traditional bond—to apply the green label to their bond offerings. Yet, once filtered through our Green Bond Framework, it’s clear that many of these securities present the opportunity for only marginal environmental improvements or possibly none at all. Although this less-than-green issuance has occurred globally, it has become prominent in Asia as the size of the green bond market has grown and issuers’ ESG initiatives have continued to evolve from their early stages.
-
Special ReportPortfolio alignment: Methodology matters
The TCFD has updated its guidance to cover disclosing alignment with the Paris Agreement, with best practice outlined in a report by a team of experts
-
Special ReportThe prospects for green energy
Hydrogen and other green energy sources are beginning to attract private capital at scale
-
Special ReportGreen sentiment and its effects
A new type of index could help track demand for green assets
-
Special ReportResearch: The time for action is now
Capital markets alone cannot resolve the market failure and market inefficiency associated with global warming
-
Special ReportBanks face scrutiny on carbon exposure
The 60 global lenders in the Net Zero Banking Alliance must present emissions targets by autumn 2022
-
Special ReportSpatial finance: A data-driven perspective on industrial output
Artificial intelligence-enabled spatial finance data could help overcome poor and lagging data disclosure by listed and private companies
-
Special ReportStewardship: Heavy-lifting network
Groups like Climate Action 100+ can help index managers to target their investment heft in engagement with individual companies
-
Special ReportBlended finance: Catalytic capital
Three examples show how innovative structures can mobilise institutional capital alongside development banks in high-impact emerging-economy projects
-
Special ReportStrategy: Focus on real-world GHG
A portfolio decarbonisation framework for real-world greenhouse gas emissions impact
-
Special ReportStrategy: Peak oil versus net zero: escaping the climate trap
Fossil-fuel use could continue to rise despite efforts to achieve climate neutrality
-
Special ReportGünther Thallinger: 300 – the budget the world dare not spend
This decade will be decisive in determining if the world can limit climate change or not
-
Special ReportFrancis Richard Pereira: Challenges for COP26
Action is required in three key areas to mobilise private finance for climate-change goals
-
Special ReportClaire Elsdon: Calling for data and policy alignment
TCFD–aligned corporate reporting should not be a choice
-
Special ReportMatthew Leatherman: Thinking harder about carbon emissions
Mandate terms can help get investors to achieve their net-zero targets
-
Special ReportRoger Urwin: Doing all you can with what you’ve got
The examples of forerunners can trickle down to others
-
Special ReportMatt Orsagh: Don’t make climate promises you can’t keep
The devil is in the detail with climate promises
