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This session takes a deep dive into the sustainability lens from a large corporate view and how investors and corporates are working together to create lasting impact.[vc_quotes layout=”accordion” 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We set bold ambitions with decade-long timeframes.
Even during the pandemic, positive work must keep moving. If something is truly core to your strategies, find a way to maintain momentum in the short-term to achieve long-term targets.
Targets must be clearly defined and clearly understood.
Business planning is critical to achieving growth, not just mitigating risk.
There is significant value in having your impact data independently audited.
CocaCola has created 1000 new recipes and this was in part due to strategy and sustainability engagement with Robeco.
It is critically important to focus the business strategy around what the public most care about.
The right behaviours must be incentivised appropriately for both short- and long-term.
When investors demonstrate care through engagement, so will everybody else.
‘Robeco have made us better. They forced us to wake up. They forced us to make sure we did not become obsolete.’
I cheer the investment community for driving investee companies in the right direction.
Peter
We challenge companies on their strategic direction. It is important that investee companies have a clear North Star.
Tension through the engagement process can help achieve better outcomes. Have the courage to ask investee companies whether their strategy transformation is moving fast enough.
It is important to identify where sustainability efforts can be accelerated. There must be a long-term commitment to engagement.
One of the most important, upcoming challenges at CalSTRS is how the fund should evaluate Chinese investments from a human capital and environmental standpoint, says Chris Ailman, chief investment officer at the giant pension fund.
Last Thursday, March 12 the US Senate Democrats’ Special Committee on the Climate Crisis heard from industry experts, including Bob Litterman and Frederic Samama, on the economic risks of climate change. They all pushed for a price on carbon and for action, now.
Being passively invested shouldn’t mean being passive with regard to responsibilities says the Church of England Pension Board which has developed a new climate transition index with FTSE Russell, LSE and TPI that is the first to incorporate forward-looking climate data.
Designing a 1.5°C asset portfolio to mobilise capital for a sustainable future requires some big thinking and intensive collaboration, not to mention transformational change that extends way beyond the borders of the investment industry. So what role do investors play?
The largest pension fund in Europe, the €450 billion Dutch ABP, set out its sustainability and responsible investment plan for 2025 last month. The plan sets out long-term objectives – in line with the goal of a climate-neutral economy by 2050 – as well as the short-term steps to achieve that.
The UK’s £30 billion Brunel Pension Partnership is taking investing in a carbon zero future to a whole new level. It has just published a far-reaching Climate Change Policy filled with actions and deadlines linked to the goals of the Paris Agreement.
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