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Thought leadershipInterpreting investor duties: The evolving context
Investors are required to incorporate material risks, including relevant ESG issues, into investment practice and decision-making in pursuit of financial returns for beneficiaries and clients.
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Thought leadershipTrends and challenges in sustainability-related shareholder resolutions
Our research into sustainability-related shareholder resolutions highlights their value as an investor stewardship tool, and the importance of corporate board accountability for their success.
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Thought leadershipInvesting for Sustainability Impact guidance
This guide was created for PRI signatories – both asset owners and investment managers – on investing for sustainability impact.
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Thought leadershipA Legal Framework for Impact: Summary report
This summary report, authored by the PRI, UNEP FI and the Generation Foundation, concludes the implementation phase of the Legal Framework for Impact (LFI) programme.
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Thought leadershipHolding boards accountable for ESG: A business case
This article sets out the case for investors to ensure that investee company boards are held accountable when it comes to sustainability.
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Thought leadershipReport: Putting resources where stewardship ambitions are
This report by the Thinking Ahead Institute examines resourcing in stewardship.
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Thought leadershipProgress and priorities: reviewing sustainability in key pension systems
Ten priorities for embedding sustainability in pension systems and a review of Australian, UK and US progress on each priority.
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Thought leadershipJapan: Integrating sustainability goals across the investment industry
Many Japanese investors remain unaware of the extent to which they are permitted or required to invest for sustainability impact. This report sets out five policy recommendations to clarify this question.
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Thought leadershipHow policy makers can implement reforms for a sustainable financial system: stewardship
Effective stewardship, with an explicit focus on delivering sustainability outcomes and impacts, delivers real benefits for investors and for society as a whole.
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Thought leadershipCanada: Integrating sustainability goals across the investment industry
Canadian investors may be interpreting their legal duties in ways that discourage them from considering sustainability impact goals, even where pursuing such goals can help them discharge their duty to achieve financial returns.
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Thought leadershipQ4 2022 Quarterly Forecast Tracker
This fourth QFT Update covers the period from October 2022 to December 2022.
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Thought leadershipNew IPR report examines global Race to the top on clean energy
Race to the top on clean energy – The US and EU response to China’s dominance: A new catalyst for more renewables involves a likely chain reaction of industrial policies for green industries in Western countries as evidenced in the EU Green Deal Industrial Plan.
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Thought leadershipIPR Forecast Policy Scenario + Nature
IPR FPS + Nature 2023 is the first integrated nature & climate scenario for use by investors. It fills a crucial gap in risk / opportunity assessments. FPS +N provides financial institutions with a forward-looking view to 2050 on how policy, technological and social trends could impact key value drivers.
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Thought leadershipA sustainable finance policy engagement handbook
Why investors should engage with policy makers, how they are doing so and how to get started
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Thought leadershipIPR 2022 Policy Gap Analysis
Launched during COP27, IPR’s Policy Gap Analysis assesses progress to date against the Inevitable Policy Response scenarios in the years preceding the 2025 ratchet.
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Thought leadershipThe Inevitable Policy Response: 2022 Quarterly Forecast Trackers
Building on the October 2021 IPR 1.8C Forecast Policy Scenario (FPS) and 1.5 degree Required Policy Scenario (RPS) policy suite, in 2022 IPR is issuing Quarterly Forecast Trackers (QFTs) assessing climate policy, technology and land use developments and acceleration or deceleration in policy ambition against these 2021 IPR scenarios.
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Thought leadershipIPR Supply Chain Analysis for tropical soft commodities
The new IPR supply chain analysis enables better climate risk analysis of tropical commodity supply chains by estimating value drivers and linking those to company exposure.
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Thought leadershipUK: Integrating sustainability goals across the investment industry
A number of policy measures could enable UK investors to pursue positive sustainability impacts through their investments, in particular where that is relevant to financial returns.
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Thought leadershipQ3 2022 Quarterly Forecast Tracker
This third QFT update covers the period from July to September 2022
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Thought leadershipThe US discovers its climate policy: A holistic assessment & implications
IPR has previously forecast that the US NDC would be achieved by 2030 and additionally, that the US will reach net zero by 2050.
