The Net Zero Investment Consultants Initiative
Our Vision of a Net-Zero Carbon Future
14 Dec 2022 - Estimated reading time: 3 minutes
Climate change is a strategic imperative for our firm. Our vision of a netzero carbon future includes a pledge to offset our historic carbon emissions dating back to 1921, be carbon neutral from 2021 and halve our carbon footprint by 2025. As part of the Net Zero Climate Initiative, we support the goal of global net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 or sooner, in alignment with the objectives of the Paris Agreement.
This report outlines the progress we’ve made in each of the initiative’s nine areas of action, and offers a case study demonstrating the work we did to analyse a client’s progress towards its net-zero goals.
Read the report here to find out more about the nine comittments below.
- Integrate advice on net-zero alignment into all our investment consulting services as soon as practically possible and within two years of making this commitment.
- Work with our institutional asset owner clients to identify the investment risks from climate change, highlight the importance of net-zero alignment and, where applicable, support our clients in developing policies that align their portfolios to a net zero pathway.
- Support efforts to decarbonise the global economy by helping our clients prioritise real economy emissions reductions, reflecting the target of 50% global emissions reduction by 2030 or sooner using existing decarbonisation methodologies.
- Assess and monitor asset managers on the integration of climate risks and opportunities in their investment decisions and stewardship and reflect this evaluation in our client recommendations.
- Align with the Net Zero Asset Manager Initiative as soon as practically possible and within two years of making this commitment
- Set emissions reduction targets across all our operational emissions in line with 1.5°C scenarios.
- Where suitable net-zero methodologies do not exist, work collaboratively for the benefit of our clients to address these challenges, seeking harmonised methodologies.
- Engage, independently or as a group, with regulators and policymakers, to facilitate the transition to net zero carbon emissions, addressing any barriers to our clients adopting and achieving their net-zero targets.
- Report progress by our firm against the commitments made here at least annually in the public domain.
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