What are the Key Themes Driving Investor Climate Reporting?
In the context of the climate crisis, investors need insightful climate research, ratings, and data. Investors must balance the physical risks of climate change alongside the transition risks of moving to a net-zero economy.
In particular, regulatory guidance like the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) has placed urgency on the investment community to take a more active role to address global climate change. The TCFD framework is becoming increasingly important as it is shifting from a voluntary approach to being the main global regulatory response to climate risk, with many regions now mandating it for compulsory climate reporting.
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eBook | Managing Risks for a Changing Climate: A Guide for Institutional Investors
Is your organization planning on or has committed to aligning portfolios to a net-zero pathway and must report on decarbonization efforts? Read our latest ebook for insights into the investment and portfolio risks related to physical climate hazards and the transition to a low carbon economy.
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Carbon Emissions Data for Investors: Closing the Reporting Gap and Future-Proofing Estimations
Despite improvements in the quality and quantity of carbon emissions reporting from companies, significant gaps remain. Discover the current state of emissions disclosures, learn the advantages and disadvantages of widely used estimation models, and discover the approach underpinning Sustainalytics' Carbon Emissions Data product.
Investors Seek Meaningful Scope 3 Emissions Targets to Evaluate Climate Transition Plans
Climate concerns continued to dominate proxy voting in the 2022 proxy season. With more clarity on sectoral commitments required to achieve the global net zero goal, shareholders’ requests have become noticeably more specific. A larger number of resolutions asked companies to adopt and report on emissions reduction targets and transition plans that reference the latest forward-looking guidance.
Physical Climate Risk: Preparing Your Portfolio for a Changing Climate
The physical climate risks affecting assets are likely to increase in the coming years, as the impacts of climate change are felt more frequently and with more intensity. In this guide, learn how companies and investors can assess their exposure to physical climate risks.
The Role of Sustainable Aviation Fuel in Achieving Decarbonization by 2050
Meeting the aviation's industry's goal of decarbonization by 2050 will require a collective effort and more ambitious measures than those currently in place, including carbon offsetting, route optimization, fuel efficiency and fleet renewals that involve a shift to more eco-friendly aircraft. However, all of these measures still revolve around fossil fuels as a source of energy.
Physical Climate Risks: 6 Things Portfolio Managers Need to Know
The negative physical impacts of climate change are being felt by communities and corporations globally and are likely to get worse in the coming years. The knock-on costs of more frequent “once-in-a-century” climate events on economies are likely to rise. To prepare for this looming threat, investors must forecast the asset-level effects of climate change on companies in a granular and sophisticated way. Here are six things portfolio managers should know to manage and mitigate the physical risks of climate change to their portfolios and meet growing list of climate-focused reporting requirements.
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Morningstar Sustainalytics’ Climate Solutions enable investors to effectively evaluate both transition and physical climate risks. Our products can help investors build comprehensive climate investment strategies, fulfill disclosure requirements, advance engagement activities, and evaluate climate risks.
Physical Climate Risk Metrics
Assess and disclose the direct and indirect physical climate risks of climate change related exposure.
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Low Carbon Transition Ratings
Receive a forward-looking assessment of a company’s current alignment to a net-zero pathway.
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Carbon Emissions Data
Evaluate and analyze companies’ GHG emissions across scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions.
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Low Carbon Transition Ratings from Morningstar Sustainalytics
In the context of the climate crisis, investors need robust research, data, and tools to identify and manage the climate transition-related risks and opportunities of their portfolio companies. Morningstar Sustainalytics’ Climate Solutions team created the Low Carbon Transition Ratings (LCTR), a new flagship ratings product, to help investors do just that.
Low Carbon Transition Ratings Methodology
Leveraging our Low Carbon Transition Ratings, investors can respond to regulatory initiatives, implement net-zero strategies, fulfill client net-zero mandates and obtain transparency into company actions by integrating climate research into their investment decision-making processes.
Physical Climate Risks and Carbon Emissions
Brochure | Physical Climate Risk Metrics
As climate change challenges the modern investment landscape, evolving marketplace expectations will require investors to disclose both transition and physical climate risks associated with their investments. To help investors better understand their exposure to physical climate risks, Sustainalytics, in collaboration with XDI, an award-winning global leader in physical climate risk analysis, are introducing Physical Climate Risk Metrics (PCRM) as Sustainalytics’ first Physical Climate Risk offering to align with evolving reporting needs. XDI's analysis supports decision-making in finance, business, and governments worldwide, with detailed, investment-ready information for physical climate risk.