Ambitious ‘net-zero’ carbon reduction goals are the latest in the evolution of asset owners’ engagement with climate change
More and more asset owners are declaring net-zero goals. Launched in September 2019 with 12 founding members, at the time of writing the UN-convened Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance (NZAOA) counted 33 members, but there are further investors with net-zero goals that are, for now at least, operating outside the framework of the NZAOA. It is also clear that other pension funds are, or will be, looking to set a net-zero target. Asset managers are also increasingly committing to net-zero, and in December 2020 announced a network of their own, the Net Zero Asset Managers Initiative.
I am pleased to present the Annual Report and audited accounts for Jupiter Emerging & Frontier Income Trust PLC (the Company , or JEFIT ) for the year ended 30 September 2020. The year under review has been an exceptionally challenging period in all investment markets and there is no disguising the fact that JEFIT s performance has been disappointing. When Covid-19 was recognised as a pandemic in the early months of 2020 little was known about its consequences but, as the world looked on in horror at the coronavirus tsunami overwhelming the public health resources of Spain and northern Italy (in particular), in March many governments woke up to the scale of the developing catastrophe and consigned their countries to months of lockdown in an attempt to limit the spread of the virus.
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Date: 27 May 2021
Climate Action 100+ Progress Report Records Accelerated Company Commitments To Net-Zero Emissions but Gaps Remain
Dec 18, 2020 8:50 AM ET
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Dec. 18, 2020 /3BL Media/ Almost half the focus companies of Climate Action 100+ – the world’s largest ever investor engagement initiative on climate change – have now established commitments to reach net-zero emissions by 2050 or sooner, its latest progress report reveals.
The Climate Action 100+ 2020 Progress Report also outlines the significant growth and evolution of Climate Action 100+. There are now 545 investor signatories, responsible for over USD52 trillion in assets under management and engaging with 167 companies through the initiative.
But despite the significant growth in signatories and net-zero commitments, the report details ongoing gaps in target coverage, with only a small proportion of net-zero goals including the companies’ most material indirect (known as Scope 3) e
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