Capacity-building Alliance of Sustainable Investment (CASI)’s Post

For my Netherlands-based friends: I've been invited to a round table discussion on November 5 (12:00-14:00) with the inimitable Andrew Parry on the topic "Making sense of the transition". Some details on what we hope to get into below. If you'd like to attend please get in touch with Jan Hein Alfrink, MBA (jan.alfrink@perpetual.com). Hope to see you there! The starting point of our discussion will be "Investors don’t want to be precisely wrong, but how can they be roughly right?" Topics for discussion: ✅ Navigating the complexities of sustainability: Understanding the challenges faced by institutional investors in integrating sustainability into their investment strategies. ✅ Interpreting evolving regulations: Discussing the challenges of evolving sustainability regulations and how the UK’s SDR might inform us on revisions to SFDR. ✅ Measuring accountability: Exploring the role of uncertainty in forecasting future GHG emissions through a probabilistic approach aligned to good scientific practice. ✅ Prioritizing net zero versus global economic reflection: Weighing the relative importance of net zero portfolios versus strategies that accurately reflect global economic imperatives. ✅ Exploring the academic perspective: Gaining insights into the latest academic research and perspectives on sustainable and net zero investing. ✅ Integrate climate risk into active equity investing: Identify structural inefficiencies in business transformation and incorporate climate risk into investment decisions. ✅ Actively participate in the road to Net Zero: Uncover hidden portfolio vulnerabilities and invest in transforming businesses that are well-aligned for a low-carbon future. #esg #sustainablefinance #energytransition #sfdr #climaterisk #ghgemissions #netzero

Join us for the Transition IQ 2024 forum with key discussions around high-priority sustainable investment themes and low-carbon transitions 📆 March 28, 2024 ⏰ 7:30AM - 2:00PM ET 🗽 In-person at ETC Venues at Harvard Club of New York 🎟️ Tickets: https://bit.ly/42LrbUq Here’s a sneak peek at some of the upcoming agenda topics: 📌 Assessing Physical Climate Risk Impact on Corporations and Investors 📌How Shareholder Engagement Efforts are Moving the Needle to Reach a Decarbonized Economy 📌 Using Engagement to Transition Hard to Abate Industries to a Lower Carbon Future 📌 Opportunities to Invest in Climate Solutions Driven by New Policies & Models 📌 Financing Climate Resilient Infrastructure & Innovative Green Projects Find out more on our website (linked above) and join us this March! #TransitionIQ #SustainableInvestment #Sustainability #LowCarbon

Climate resilience and adaptation is an attractive growth investment theme that is investible today, including through publicly listed companies. Global Adaptation & Resilience Investment Working Group Released a paper "Investing in Climate Resilience: Unlocking a Growing Market of Adaptation Solutions". This paper presents an initial toolkit for investors considering climate resilience as a thematic area, particularly in public markets. It presents a first-of-its-kind, AI-powered framework identifying a universe of over 800 publicly traded companies in the business of resilience along with methods investors can use to find these companies and incorporate climate resilience into investment product design. It also describes a proposed framework to define which companies are “in the business of resilience”, methods to locate these companies within the investable universe of publicly listed companies and how investors can design investment products to provide their clients with exposure to the theme. #climateadaptation #riskmanagement

How do green investing and climate policies interact? Could green investing do more harm than good by making effective public policies less likely to be implemented? Or do green investing and policies reinforce each other? Early this year, the E-axes Forum asked me to write a digest of current papers on this interesting (and crucial) question. You find it attached; please have a look and let me know what you think. Thanks, E-axes Forum, for giving me this opportunity! 📗 You can find our latest workingpaper on the topic on SSRN: https://lnkd.in/eNbgzhiW (Joint work with Julian Kölbel, Stefano Ramelli, and Anna Vasileva) Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE MIT Sloan School of Management MIT Sloan Sustainability Initiative #Investing #Sustanability #ImpactInvesting #ESG

The final program of the Sustainable Investing Forum is out. Do not hesitate to join in the wonderful setting of the EHL Swiss School of Tourism and Hospitality (SSTH) on June the 10th. You will hear about the latest research development in the field of sustainable investing. We will also have a very interesting presentation on the impact of climate change on the wine market with our colleague Matt Goldklang from Man Group. #impactinvesting, #climatechange, #pensionfunds, #realestate

𝗦𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗜𝗻𝘃𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮 𝗚𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿 𝗙𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲    In our efforts to mitigate the impacts of climate change, one crucial action lies in redirecting capital towards renewable energy and clean technologies. This shift towards green investment, holds the key to not only environmental preservation but also economic and social prosperity. The pivotal role of banks, financial intermediaries, and capital markets cannot be overstated in steering this transformation of capital allocation. 📢 𝗝𝗼𝗶𝗻 𝘂𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮𝗻 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗷𝗼𝗶𝗻𝘁 𝗢𝗘𝗖𝗗-𝗘𝗖𝗕 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽: 𝗡𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗼 𝗻𝗲𝘁 𝘇𝗲𝗿𝗼 – 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲, 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘀    With a roundtable discussion by: -Laurent Clerc, Banque de France, Autorité de Contrôle Prudentiel et de Résolution -Francesco Drudi, European Central Bank CB, DG Monetary Policy -Laurent Maurin, European Investment Bank, Economics Department -Mathilde Mesnard, OECD, Environment Directorate -Flore-Anne Messy, OECD, Directorate for Financial and Enterprise Affairs   Save the Date: 🗓️ April 19, 2024 🕒 9:15 – 17:00 (CET) 📍 Zoom 🔒 Secure your spot now: Webinar Registration - Zoom: https://lnkd.in/eq4Wqp-2 Tobias Kruse / Filippo Maria D'Arcangelo / Mauro Pisu / Douglas Sutherland

"The investment community can advocate for consistent climate policy and support its implementation, but they cannot lead or drive the pace of the transition. Recognising this realistic role will lead to more effective and honest efforts towards sustainability." - Tom Gosling, London Business School. Learn more about how the investment sector's role on sustainability, on our digital series ‘Investing for Tomorrow’s Environment’, at 🔗 https://lnkd.in/eZhd-n7S 🎤: Tom Gosling #InvestingForTomorrowsEnvironment #GreenFinance #ImpactInvesting #EcoInvesting #SustainableInvesting #GreenFunds #ESG  🎥: Content With Purpose

🌍🔥 With $7 trillion of fossil fuel subsidies impeding climate finance efforts, particularly in emerging economies, the case for investments that support a Just Transition to net zero is clear. How can this be accelerated? 🤔 One of the main challenges for investors, and those designing investment products and solutions 💡 is understanding what 🔎 the “just” element of a just transition to net zero means from a practical perspective. Through our work we’ve identified three key elements: 🔺Advancing climate and environmental action 🔺Improving socio-economic distribution and equity  🔺Increasing community voice This has been expanded under the leadership of our UK National Partner, the Impact Investing Institute, to a set of Just Transition Criteria (link in comments ⬇️). Building upon existing frameworks, standards and labels 🏷️, the Criteria can be used by managers to align products to support a just transition to net zero. 📚 Learn more (link in comments). 🫱🏼🫲🏽 Impact Investing Institute | Blended Finance Task Force housed by Systemiq Ltd. | Convergence Blended Finance | Collaborative for Frontier Finance | OECD - OCDE | International Monetary Fund #ClimateAction #FossilFuelSubsidies #SustainableDevelopment #emergingeconomies

📊 How do we turn net-zero blueprints into bottom-line results? 🌳 Today's Transition Finance webinar together with Environmental Finance and IFC Climate & Sustainability, we tackled the ultimate challenge: What makes a transition plan not just ambitious—but actionable and investable? 🔑 Key Insights: 1. Do companies have skin in the game? The first test of credibility is whether companies align their transition plans with their core business strategies and investments. 2. Viability is everything: A transition plan is only as strong as its execution. Targets must be backed by science and treated as business-critical objectives. 3. From promises to progress: Transition plans must bridge ambition with action, setting measurable, transparent steps that deliver real results. 🌍 For emerging markets, transition finance unlocks vital capital, but only for those who demonstrate genuine commitment to sustainable growth and climate resilience. 🎙 Big thanks to our expert panel: 🌱 Agnes Gourc – BNP Paribas 🌱 Amir Sokolowski – CDP 🌱 Brian O'Hanlon – RMI 🌱 Matt Kuchtyak – Moody's Corporation 🌱 Romain Poivet – World Benchmarking Alliance 🎥 Missed it? Watch the full webinar here: https://lnkd.in/dDxT5Uxk What’s your biggest hurdle in evaluating transition plans? Let’s discuss below! #transitionfinance #netzero #sustainability #emergingmarkets #IFC #climate

We're incredibly excited for this course with cCarbon.info!! Climate change is humanity’s greatest problem, and the free market is currently our biggest tool to drive change. After this course, you will be fluent in the language of carbon markets and possess insights enabling you to take full advantage of this massive economic shift and its opportunities. Learn more, and enroll in the Mastering Carbon Markets course here: https://lnkd.in/g3QN4XJx