ESG Investing and Analysis: A Practitioner’s Guide
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Considering physical climate risks and resilience in real asset investment
Lucy Carmody and Carlos Sánchez
Linking ESG scenarios to real economy outcomes
Analysing ESG policy, market and portfolio construction considerations
Case Study 1: Applying ESG considerations to a pension fund’s equity portfolios
Case Study 2: Applying ESG concepts to wealth management portfolios
Managing environmental and climate transition risks and opportunities within portfolios
Considering physical climate risks and resilience in real asset investment
Case Study 3: Practical issues and considerations for implementing a Net Zero emissions strategy for asset owners
Evaluating social criteria in fundamental and thematic investment portfolios
Case Study 4: Defining impact investing for today‘s ethical investor – evaluating the efforts of Evangelisches Johannesstift
Developing governance and active ownership frameworks for investment analysis
Case Study 5: Applying active ownership and stewardship to a pension fund portfolio
Identifying ESG risks and opportunities in alternative investments
Reviewing the EU regulatory framework for ESG investors
Assessing data and disclosure challenges in ESG investing
Corporate social responsibility across industries: When and who can do well by doing good?
Reflecting on how ESG investing, accounting and governance have evolved over time
“BUILDING IN” RESILIENCE TO CLIMATE CHANGE
Climate change makes a fundamentally unknowable future even more uncertain for investors, scientists and policymakers alike. It poses a systemic risk to society, the economy and financial markets and, regardless of global national and corporate commitments to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, we are all certain to experience some degree of climate change over the coming decades that could be slow and challenging to reverse. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the body of the United Nations responsible for advancing knowledge on human-induced climate change, concluded in their Sixth Assessment Report that “many changes due to past and future greenhouse gas emissions are irreversible for centuries to millennia, especially changes in the ocean, ice sheets and global sea level” (IPCC, 2021).
In parallel, investors and bankers globally have become increasingly aware of the financial materiality associated with climate risks that threaten real assets, supply chains and systemic stability. The impacts of these risks can derive from both physical impacts – the chronic and acute effects of climate change – and from
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