17 May 2022Events, Roundtables
Investment
Climate Change, Investment, News | 01 June 2021
UNEP FI and PRI launch joint programme to boost leadership in responsible investing
Geneva, Tuesday 1 June. The UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) and the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) are…
Asset Owner Alliance, Climate Change, Investment, News | 27 May 2021
Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance adds 5 new members managing $900 billion
The UN-convened Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance announced the addition of five new members managing nearly one trillion US dollars of…
Climate Change, Investment, News | 20 May 2021
New ICAP framework drives investor action on climate crisis, accelerating transition to net-zero
The founding partners of The Investor Agenda released today a new tool to enable institutional investors to step up action…
Asset Owner Alliance, Climate Change, Investment, News | 14 May 2021
The ASCOR Project: Assessing Sovereign Climate-related Opportunities and Risks
Asset owners, BT Pension Scheme and the Church of England Pensions Board, alongside the UN-convened Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance (AOA),…
Investment, Property publications, Publications | 06 May 2021
A New Investor Consensus: The Rising Demand for Healthy Buildings
UNEP FI’s Property Working Group has partnered with the Center for Active Design and BentallGreenOak (BGO) to conduct the largest health and wellness study of global real estate investment managers.
Asset Owner Alliance, Climate Change, Investment, News | 15 April 2021
Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance’s new tool for asset manager engagement on climate-related proxy voting
The UN-convened Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance has today released a new resource designed to help asset owners set expectations for,…
Asset Owner Alliance, Climate Change, Investment, News | 11 February 2021
UN Secretary General calls Asset Owner Alliance the ‘gold standard for net-zero commitments
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has called on investors who move much of the world’s money to set increasingly ambitious targets…
Climate Change, Investment, News | 01 February 2021
UN SG António Guterres: Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance is “gold standard” for net-zero commitments
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has called on investors who move much of the world’s money to set increasingly ambitious…
Asset Owner Alliance, Climate Change, Investment, News | 13 January 2021
Asset owners set and commit to report on 2025 targets to support 2050 net-zero emissions
The UN-convened Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance publishes the final Inaugural 2025 Target Setting Protocol, as individual members begin setting their own 2025 decarbonization targets, to ensure a transition to net-zero emissions by 2050.
Asset Owner Alliance, Climate Change, Investment, News | 07 January 2021
Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance: Statement on the need for a fully developed IEA 1.5°C scenario
As members of the UN-convened Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance (AoA), we welcome and commend important advancements in the recently-released 2020 World Energy Outlook – in particular, the first-ever inclusion of a net zero by 2050 case to supplement the Sustainable Development Scenario. To help enable a rapid and smooth global transition to net zero emissions by 2050 it is vital that this scenario is expanded into a more robust, comprehensive and central scenario in next year’s iteration of the WEO.