Topic: Asia Investor Group on Climate Change
18 October 2018
World’s largest pension fund GPIF of Japan announced as a Supporter of initiative.
Initiative drives momentum in investor engagement activity across Asia, with upswing in signatories across the region.
22 October 2018: Climate Action 100+ is today announcing strong growth in investor participation across Asia and Japan’s Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF), as the latest investor to join the initiative.
11 September 2018
SAN FRANCISCO, 12 SEPTEMBER 2018 – The Investor Agenda launched today in San Francisco will support investors in accelerating and scaling-up the actions that are critical to tackling climate change and achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement. Its launch also demonstrates the significant momentum already evident, with 392 investors with US $32 trillion in assets collectively under management, using The Investor Agenda to highlight climate action they are already taking and making new commitments.
1 September 2018
AIGCC held the inaugural CEO/CIO Asset owner Roundtable in September 2017. This forum is the flagship event for AIGCC, bringing asset owners from Asia and internationally together in a forum of peer to peer sharing of knowledge and information. This assists in providing guidance and information developed by global investor peers on the benefits of integrating climate change risks and opportunities into their investment policies and processes.
10 July 2018
More influential investors including AllianceBernstein, Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corporation, USD $43 billion UK pension pool Boarders to Coast Pension Partnership, and USD $64 billion Australian pension fund UniSuper sign on to initiative.
3 July 2018: Investor signatories to Climate Action 100+ have scaled up engagement with systematically important greenhouse gas emitters, while expanding their focus list of companies, adding 61 companies (Known as the + list) that have significant opportunities to drive the clean energy transition and help achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement.
10 May 2018
May 9, 2018, Tokyo, Japan — In response to the Dai-ichi Life Insurance Company’s announcement on coal power plant finance restriction, a group of Environmental NGOs, Japan Center for a Sustainable Environment and Society (JACSES), Friends of the Earth Japan (FoE Japan), Kiko Network, 350.org Japan, Greenpeace Japan, and Rainforest Action Network, issued the following statement:
“We welcome the news of the Dai-ichi Life Insurance Company adopting a policy to end new project financing for overseas coal power plants (1).
11 April 2018
AIGCC is launching the Japanese translation of the “Integrating Climate Change into Investment Strategy: A Guide for Investors” at RI Asia in Tokyo today.
Asian investors can protect long-term returns by taking greater measures to manage climate risk. This is one of the key messages in a comprehensive climate change investor guide that is being launched in a Japanese translated version today at the RI Asia event in Tokyo by the Asia Investor Group on Climate Change (AIGCC).
22 December 2017
100 investors with more than USD $15 trillion in assets under management have committed to addressing climate change with the companies they invest in
PARIS 12 December 2017 – A new global initiative to harness the power of the world’s most influential institutional investors committed to in-depth engagement with the world’s largest corporate greenhouse gas emitters — Climate Action 100+ — is launched today at the One Planet Summit, hosted by the French Government exactly on the second anniversary of the Paris Agreement.
5 December 2017
Launch of new Asia climate change investor guide
Asian investors must face up to major climate risks
Asian investors can protect long-term returns by taking greater measures to manage climate risk.
This is one of the key messages in a comprehensive new climate change investor guide launched today at the China SIF summit in Beijing by the Asia Investor Group on Climate Change (AIGCC).
13 November 2017
Bonn, November 13, 2017. The US government may have announced plans to pull out of the Paris Agreement but this has not derailed climate progress around the globe as investors, governments and other stakeholders look to ramp up their climate commitments at COP23.
According to a new survey published in September by financial market researchers East & Partners on behalf of HSBC, institutional investors are gearing up to plough increasing amounts of cash into the low carbon transition, with two-thirds saying they plan to increase their level of investment in climate mitigation efforts.
15 September 2017
13 September, Singapore: Convened by the Asia Investor Group on Climate Change (AIGCC), an unprecedented gathering of investors representing $3.5trn in assets and former US Vice President Al Gore, met in Singapore this week to discuss climate change risks and opportunities as part of the Milken Asia Summit 2017.