Resource Database

AODP Global Climate 500 Index rates the world’s 500 biggest asset owners – pension funds, insurers, sovereign wealth funds, foundations and endowments – on their success at managing climate risk within their portfolios, based on direct disclosures and publicly available information.

This guidance document provides guidelines for green bond issuers to promote transparency in the developing green bond market. This document has been listed as an example of a climate-related opportunity in the TCFD Final Report Annex.

With investors in France required to release reporting on the requirements of Article 173, Beyond Ratings has decided to take a closer look at how asset owners and asset managers have responded to this reporting requirement for the sovereign asset class.

This report presents a methodology to quantify exposure to physical climate risk in equity portfolios by identifying the locations of corporate production and retail sites around the world and their vulnerability to climate change hazards.

This piece of research aims to help the growing number of investors that have committed to or are considering the “Divest-Invest” pledge as a means of addressing climate change risks, by assessing the potential impacts of aligning a portfolio with the pledge from an investment risk-return perspective.

This discussion paper aims to draw issues of climate risk to the attention of UK auditors, boards, audit committees and investors. Its objective is to improve visibility and clarity about legal issues relating to climate risk for auditors and to enhance management and disclosure of climate risks by companies.

The Water Risk Monetizer is a publicly available online tool that provides actionable information to help businesses around the world understand the impact of water availability (quantity) and water quality to their business and quantify those risks in financial terms to inform decisions that enable growth.

Trucost and the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) have developed a tool for investors to assess the potential internalized costs and environmental risks of their investments in the aluminum sector.

This report presents the anonymized analysis of the investors who participated in a Swiss government-initiated a 2°C scenario analysis pilot involving over 80 Swiss pension funds and insurance companies.

This piece of research seeks to explore the potential for long-term suboptimal allocation of capital due to the finance sector’s limited ability to capture long-term risks within short-term risk-assessment frameworks.

This report updates and expands CDP’s research and League Table for chemical companies, first published in August 2015. It ranks 22 of the largest publicly listed chemical companies on business readiness for a low carbon transition. The areas assessed in the CDP League Table are aligned with the TCFD recommendations.

This report updates CDP’s research and League Table for European electric utilities, first published in May 2015. It ranks 14 of the largest publicly listed power generators in Europe on readiness for a low carbon transition. The areas assessed in the CDP League Table are aligned with the TCFD recommendations.