PRI | Climate change

Climate change is the highest priority ESG issue facing investors. The PRI works to help investors protect portfolios from risks, take advantage of opportunities and deliver real-world impact in the shift to low-carbon, resilient economies.

Getting started

Take a look at our investing for climate resource hub, a curated list of resources to help investors integrate climate mitigation, adaptation and resilience considerations into their investment practices.

An introduction to responsible investment: Climate adaptation and resilience
This guide introduces the topics of adaptation and resilience and how investors can integrate them into investment decisions, stewardship and disclosure practices.
An introduction to responsible investment: climate change for asset owners
This starter guide outlines the relevance of climate change to asset owners and suggests updates to investment processes, engagement and disclosures that are needed to reflect climate risk.
Climate risk: An investor resource guide
This publication provides an overview of the many resources available to help investors manage climate risk. It includes short discussions of each of the four areas of climate risk management, links to key resources and many examples of investor disclosures.

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Climate policy

A clear, consistent, and enabling policy environment is critical to the viability of the net zero transition, and successful policy implementation helps minimise risks to the real economy, to individual systems, and to the financial system as a whole.

Climate guidance and tools

A collection of climate related guidance and tools including introductory guides, climate reporting to the PRI and technical guides.

Our work on climate change

The PRI and COP

The road to COP30

The PRI has three key objectives in the lead up to COP30.

Climate change - Thought leadership and discussion papers

PRI’s ambitious thought leadership programme seeks to advance new topics for discussion in the industry and seek practitioners’ feedback, as well as advancing industry initiatives aimed at improving the data and disclosures available to investors on climate change.