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The Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance's Target-Setting Protocol is a foundational document that created a framework for reporting and delivery on short-term climate targets. Since the launch of the Inaugural Target Setting Protocol, the document - and thus the expectations for ... Read More

For asset managers in private markets to robustly represent their clients’ long-term interests, they should integrate climate change considerations across all their business activities, including investment decisions. Therefore, this call to action is meant to encourage all asset managers (and ... Read More

Institutional investors steer large portions of their investment portfolios via benchmarks. However, given that net-zero-aligned benchmarks (which can be applied in a broad range of cases) do not currently exist, net-zero asset owners are operating with an incomplete toolbox. This ... Read More

Closing the climate investment gap in emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs) will take political will. The Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance is calling on policymakers to support scaling blended finance, an instrument that can help address structural deterrence to investments ... Read More

Sector specific data from companies in the real economy remains insufficient, unreliable, incomparable, or non-existent. As a result, investors are not able to fully steer investment portfolios in line with sector decarbonisation pathways or to set science-based targets at the ... Read More

The second-ever progress report of the Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance shows consistent growth in membership, matched by the credibility of short-term decarbonisation targets. On the day of the report release, the Alliance counts 74 members, accounting for US$ 10.6 trillion ... Read More

In this paper, the Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance calls on policymakers to implement ambitious and reliable carbon prices, to fulfil the Paris Agreement commitments. To ensure effective implementation of a carbon price policy instrument, the Alliance formulates a list of ... Read More

Commissioned by the UN-convened Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance and the European Climate Foundation, the One Earth Climate Model (OECM) provides a much-needed roadmap for sectoral decarbonization. By clearly defining scope 3 emissions, while avoiding double-counting, the model and the latest ... Read More