Planertary Pulse reveals the findings from new primary research into real-world impact and transition finance. It is based on a survey of 300 senior professionals at asset owners and advisors around the world, including pension funds, insurers, endowments, foundations, central banks, sovereign wealth funds and consultants.
The deployment of climate-related practices appears somewhat stronger in Asia-Pacific than in other regions, with climate-factor integration (54%, up from 40% in 2022) and portfolio construction (42%, down from 45% in 2022) the most commonly implemented practices; 58% have at least one-quarter of their AUM invested in portfolios with climate-related instructions or objectives.
APAC-based respondents cite climate risk (assessed using metrics such as Value-At-Risk) as the most used climate-related target (54% vs 43% globally). While a plurality sets targets at asset-class level (42%), respondents in APAC are the most likely across regions to be planning to set targets at individual fund level over the next 12 months (54%). As with US-based respondents, their preferred framework is SBTi (56%).
Climate-related factor integration, the most used investment tool, also scores highly on contribution to portfolio decarbonisation (54%) but it scores on the low side for its contribution to real-world emissions (38%). However, the most surprising disconnect relates to the adoption of climate-related themes: used by only 21%, this practice is nonetheless viewed by 80% as contributing strongly to real-world emissions reduction, by far the highest score for any practice across all regions.
APAC-based respondents are most likely to have current investments in transition finance (46%). While they are slightly less likely to view emerging-market transition finance as a major commercial opportunity for asset owners (44% vs 51% across regions), they are the most likely to agree that, without greater investment in emerging-market transition finance assets, organisations and governments globally will not be able to meet the Paris Agreement climate-change goals (50%).
Planetary Pulse reveals the findings from new primary research into real-world impact and transition finance. Our interactive data visualisation offers context to the challenges asset owners face, and summarises the report's key findings.
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Planetary Pulse reveals the findings from new primary research into transition finance.