RIPPL Sluice – beneath the surface in November 2022

Responsible investing has become a focus area in the investment industry, but greenwashing is rife and the sales pitch is strong, so what really matters? Research IP helps many of our consulting clients navigate the maze, but no one client is the same. For more context, our research paper, Beneath the Surface of Responsible Investing, takes a deeper look at the investment merits of different managed fund approaches applied in New Zealand, Australia, the United States, and Europe. 

We bring you the RIPPL Sluice to provide examples of responsible investment in action every month. 

Climate change is the biggest investment risk and opportunity of this century Globally, investors, companies, and financial regulators conceive of two broad pathways to net zero emissions. The first has early, ambitious action to a net zero emissions economy (‘orderly transition’), and the second has action that is late, disruptive, sudden, and/or unanticipated (‘disorderly transition’). READ MORE

Tracking emissions to source The Global Registry of Fossil Fuels is the first attempt to create a global repository of fossil fuel production and reserves at the asset level and to estimate their associated emissions in the context of energy demand scenarios and forecasts. READ MORE

Climate data nuances in equity index portfolios Since carbon intensity, fossil fuels, and brown revenues are concentrated in a few names, it is relatively easy to achieve large improvements with low tracking error impact. READ MORE

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