Climate Change

Sustainability

Plastic pollution: A call to arms

Plastic production is projected to triple by 2050, yet only 14 per cent of plastic packaging is now collected for recycling. Consumers are beginning to reject the use of single use plastic and if this continues the financial impacts could be significant. So what is the role of asset owners in bringing this to light?

Conrad MacKerronAugust 16, 2019

Sustainability

Foundations should invest for impact

Inequality and the climate crisis are market-based problems that need market-based solutions. What is the role of foundations in solving such problems?

Sharon AlpertMay 16, 2019

Sustainability

Asset owners’ climate-change advice

A new guide, Climate Change for Asset Owners, provides case studies and other practical advice for how to get investor organisations focused on climate change, how to craft a related investment strategy and how to implement it. The publication includes content from 10 asset owners.

Amanda WhiteFebruary 6, 2019

Governance

REST case to set climate risk precedent

An Australian case brought by a millennial against his pension fund is a world first and will make law on whether trustees breach their fiduciary duties when they ignore climate change.

David BarndenDecember 11, 2018

Manager Relationships

Cbus benchmarks managers on climate risk

The $32.5 billion Australian superannuation fund has set emissions targets for portfolios and incorporated TCFD disclosure rules as it makes climate risk management a factor in awarding mandates.

October 30, 2018

Sustainability

OPTrust takes climate-change action

The $15 billion Canadian pension plan considers active engagement more effective than divestment and market forces more immediate than regulation, as it works towards a low-carbon economy.

Hugh O'ReillyAugust 30, 2018

Sustainability

Plastic pollution: A call to arms

Sustainability

Foundations should invest for impact

Sustainability

Asset owners’ climate-change advice

Governance

REST case to set climate risk precedent

Manager Relationships

Cbus benchmarks managers on climate risk

Sustainability

OPTrust takes climate-change action

California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS)

ABP/APG Asset Management

California State Teachers Retirement System (CalSTRS)

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