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Ambitious ‘net-zero’ carbon reduction goals are the latest in the evolution of asset owners’ engagement with climate change
More and more asset owners are declaring net-zero goals. Launched in September 2019 with 12 founding members, at the time of writing the UN-convened Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance (NZAOA) counted 33 members, but there are further investors with net-zero goals that are, for now at least, operating outside the framework of the NZAOA. It is also clear that other pension funds are, or will be, looking to set a net-zero target. Asset managers are also increasingly committing to net-zero, and in December 2020 announced a network of their own, the Net Zero Asset Managers Initiative.
By Susanna Rust2021-01-14T15:37:00+00:00
The United Nations-convened Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance has finalised the framework according to which individual members will be publishing their 2025 portfolio decarbonisation targets to support the goal of net-zero emissions by 2050.
According to the group, the 2025 target-setting protocol and the subsequent issuing of individual targets represents the first time major investors set and commit to report on interim targets on the way to the 2050 objective.
Writing in the foreword of the protocol, former UN climate change chief and founding partner of a strategic and scientific partner of the Alliance, Christiana Figueres said: “Issuing transparent, rigorous and realistic targets, and then committing to report against them in the next four years, is at once an extraordinary – and also essential – demonstration of ambition by private sector leaders who exist at the pinnacle of our financial systems.”