By IPE Staff2021-05-14T15:07:00+01:00
A group of institutional investors have started a project to create a new assessment framework enabling investors to fairly and appropriately measure, monitor and compare sovereigns’ current and future climate change governance and performance.
The tool is being designed by a project team comprising BT Pension Scheme (BTPS) and the Church of England Pensions Board, alongside the UN-convened Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance, (AOA); Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies (Ceres); the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change, (IIGCC); the Principles for Responsible Investment, (PRI) and the Transition Pathway Initiative, (TPI), supported by Chronos Sustainability.
The team will start working on the tool in June 2021 with the aim to pilot the assessment framework, Assessing Sovereign Climate-related Opportunities and Risk (ASCOR), by the end of 2021.