Solutions to address data availability challenges?
- external consultant
- proxies/estimates
- internal data collection & database
- ask investee directly for info
- exclude certain business activities
,SDGs
Give this one a try later!
- introduced by UN in 2015
-outline 2030 global agenda
-17 goals & 169 specific targets
United Nations Global Compact (UNGC)
-launched in 2000
= collaboration between leading companies and the UN
-10 principles
Nature Action 100
= global investor engagement that aims to mobilize institutional investors to
establish common high-level agenda for engagements and a clear set of
expectations to drive greater corporate ambition and action on nature and
biodiversity loss
Fastest growing regions w/ respect to developing an ESG Investment Strategy
, - Europe (w/o Eastern Europe) - 25%
- East & Southeast Asia - 23%
Carbon market
= market that is created from the trading of carbon emission allowances to
encourage/help emitters to limit their emissions = emissions/carbon trading
Task Force on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD)
--> adopting a four-pillar approach in analogy to that of the TCFD
= developed to set out disclosure framework for financial disclosures
related to risks/opportunities associated with the nature
ESG rating
= assessment of sustainability performance derived by analyzing ESG data -
-> usual numerical scores or letter grades
Global Sustainable Investment Alliance (GSIA)