The net-zero investing journey passed a milestone this May, having already ticked one third of the way towards 2030 goals and one twelfth of the way to 2050 goals. Roger Urwin, co-founder of the Thinking Ahead Institute, enquires how investors and the real economy are really doing.
Amanda White speaks with Ziad Hindo, chief investment officer of Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, about the risks and opportunities in the new investment environment, how agility, governance and risk management position it for success, and how it’s taking a big bet on the energy transition.
IPR’s Julian Poulter takes a sobering look at the inevitability that net zero is somewhere between very unlikely and impossible. net-zero aligned CIOs he suggests a new focus on three areas of impact: clean solution capital, negative emissions technologies and Asia.
A push towards standardised data and more appropriate incentives is bringing greater amounts of private sector capital into play on the path towards net zero emissions by 2050.
CalSTRS is putting in place building bricks to meet its 2050 net zero pledge in a process that underscores the complexity and size of the task in hand.
The UK's BT Pension Scheme's CIO Wyn Francis reflects on the pressure war in Ukraine will put on investors net zero targets.
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