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April 2019

Institutional Intentionality: Aligning institutional investors with the global SDG agenda

17 Asset Management
This paper showcases how SDGs can guide institutional investors when investing in non-listed assets and provides a guide to evaluating risk and opportunity when constructing an optimal portfolio for investors.
March 2011

Universal Ownership: Why environmental externalities matter to institutional investors

United Nations Environment Finance Initiative (UNEP FI)
The report, Universal Ownership – Why environmental externalities matter to institutional investors, found that, large institutional investors are, in effect, “Universal Owners”, as they often have highly-diversified and long-term portfolios that are representative of global capital markets.
April 2020

Investor Priorities for the EU Green Deal

Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI)
This report sets out recommendations to ensure that investors can scale up their contribution to the EU Green Deal and sustainability goals more broadly.
January 2020

Climate Change in APEC: Assessing risks, preparing financial markets, and mobilizing institutional investors

World Bank Group
This report aims to help these stakeholders better understand the human and economic risks that climate change poses to the region and to provide them with a starting point for discussions about opportunities for action.
11 June 2018
Research

Mobilizing Institutional Investment in Indian Renewables

Chavi Meattle, Gireesh Shrimali
India has been a sweet spot for renewable energy investment exhibiting an 11% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) between 2004 and 2017, and ranked among the top five renewable investment destinations in the FS-UNEP Report. Some major contributing factors have been India’s strong macroeconomic fundamentals, its large and well-diversified renewable market, and India’s ability to offer higher excess returns than several comparable markets like China and the United States.
March 2013

The Challenge of Institutional Investment in Renewable Energy

Institutional investors, which together manage assets of over $70 trillion, often have investment objectives that are aligned with the investment profile of low-carbon infrastructure.

October 2020

Green Infrastructure in the Decade for Delivery: Assessing institutional investment

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
This report provides a first-of-its-kind empirical assessment of investment in infrastructure by institutional investors domiciled in OECD and G20 countries, presenting a snapshot from February 2020.
September 2015

Financial Reform, Institutional Investors and Sustainable Development: A Review of Current Policy Initiatives and Proposals for further Progress

Inquiry into the Design of a Sustainable Financial System (UN Environment Inquiry)

This study seeks to provide new perspectives and proposals on the relationship between institutional investors and sustainable development in the context of a more sustainable financial system.

October 2020

Raising the Cost of Climate Action? Investor-State Dispute Settlement and Compensation for Stranded Fossil Fuel Assets

International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)
This report develops a framework for assessing the extent to which energy transition measures could result in ISDS claims; explores the extent to which treaties with ISDS protect foreign-owned coal plants worldwide, and provides policy recommendations to help states preserve their ability to facilitate the low-carbon energy transition.
May 2017

Investment Governance and the Integration of Environmental, Social and Governance Factors

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
This paper, Investment Governance and the Integration of Environmental, Social and Governance Factors, examines how pension funds, insurance companies and asset managers approach environmental, social and governance (ESG) risks and opportunities in their portfolio investments.

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