Climate Change - A Risk Management Challenge for Institutional Investors (2001)

Oct 5, 2009
Source: 
Universities Superannuation Scheme
Source Link: 
http://www.usshq.co.uk/Documents/climate_change_paper.pdf

Climate change is a major emerging risk management challenge for institutional investors. Institutional investors, and pension funds in particular, aim to provide pensions and other benefits through long term investment. They can also be seen as ‘universal investors’ in that, due to their size, they commonly invest across the whole economy. If climate change threatens economic development, and especially if there are many or significant impacts, it will also therefore be likely to undermine the ability of pension funds and other institutional investors to fulfil their aims, so it is in their interests to see that risks associated with climate change are minimised. Whilst this responsibility is widely shared, institutional investors are uniquely suited to take particular actions. This paper proposes ten such action points, together with the rationale for this approach.

Author(s): 
Mark Mansley, Andrew Dlugolecki
Author: India Carbon Outlook

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