Asset Owner Alliance Reports
Inaugural 2025 Target Setting Protocol
The UN-convened Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance has released the Inaugural 2025 Target Setting Protocol after consultation on the draft, issued in October 2020. The Alliance is a group of 33 of the world’s largest investors that have committed to reducing carbon emissions in their portfolio – worth over $5.1 trillion in AUM – to net-zero…
Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance position on the Coronavirus Recovery
In the recovery from the global coronavirus pandemic, government spending and recovery packages will play a pivotal role in underpinning economies, jobs and people’s livelihoods. These measures, already in the trillions of dollars, need not only to be effective in restarting the economy, but also in creating a sustainable economy of the future. This includes…
Sectoral Pathways to Net-Zero Emissions
In the last year, the world has seen an unprecedented acceleration towards a net-zero economy. Governments, companies, financial institutions, cities and regions are joining forces and ‘racing to zero’, aiming to entirely transform the energy system – in just three decades. To date, more than half of the world’s GDP, or almost USD 46 trillion,…
Alliance Thermal Coal Position
Our foundational commitment as members of the United Nations-convened Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance (the Alliance) is to fully decarbonize our portfolios to contribute to global efforts to avoid a global average temperature increase above 1.5°C, consistent with our fiduciary duty. This will be achieved by inducing reductions of greenhouse gas emissions from companies in which…
Asset Owner Alliance Working Documents
- Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance’s new tool for asset manager engagement on climate-related proxy voting
- Call for Digital Map for Climate Solutions – tender document
- Net Zero Asset Owner Alliance Climate Blended Finance Vehicles – Call to Action to Asset Managers (February 2021)
- Net Zero Asset Owner Alliance response to TCFD Consultation on “Forward-Looking Financial Metrics” (February 2021)
- Net Zero Asset Owner Alliance Call for Application – Scientific Advisory Body (January 2021)
- Net Zero Asset Owner Alliance open letter to companies in our portfolio holdings (December 2020)
- Methodological Principles: Consolidated feedback received via the ‘Call for Comment’
- Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance – Live Version 2.0 of Methodological Principles (November 2020)