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Founding Partners of the Investor Agenda share reactions to COP29
The Investor Agenda Founding Partners – AIGCC, CDP, Ceres, IGCC, IIGCC, PRI and UNEP FI – co-hosted an official COP29 side event that brought together asset owners, asset managers, and government representatives from around the world to discuss accelerating policy and investor action to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement. Find out more about the event as well as their reactions to COP29…
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Events
COP29 side event: Accelerating Global Investor Climate Action to Achieve the Paris Agreement’s Goals
Date: Friday 15th November 2024
Time: 18:30 – 20:00 (AZT – Azerbaijan time)
Location: COP29 Blue Zone, Room: Side Event 8 (accreditation required)
To facilitate a just global transition to net zero, investors are setting net zero targets, laying out climate action plans (ICAPs), and engaging with companies and governments. This event featured discussions from investors, government representatives and Founding Partners of the Investor Agenda on the policies needed to scale up the finance needed to deliver ambitious nationally determined contributions (NDCs) and implement the Global Stocktake (GST) outcomes.
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The Changing Climate Policy Landscape
The Founding Partners of the Investor Agenda have published a climate policy report out lining eight key features of effective climate policy as a consideration for policymakers.
The report takes the opportunity provided by the UNFCCC Global Stocktake to summarize how global climate policy has developed and to describe the core features that should underpin climate policy going forward. Several case studies have been provided to illustrate effective climate finance policy in Australia, the European Union, Japan and the United States.
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Case studies
Aviva
Aviva Investors is the global asset management business of Aviva plc. The business delivers investment management solutions, services and client-driven performance to clients worldwide. Aviva Investors operates in 14 countries in Asia Pacific, Europe, North America and the United Kingdom with £234 billion in assets under management as at 30 June 2024. Aviva set out its Net Zero by 2040 ambition in March 2021.
Read the Aviva case study here.
Cbus Super
Cbus is the leading Industry Super Fund representing those thhttps://theinvestoragenda.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Aviva-ICAPs-Case-Study.pdfat help build and maintain Australia. As one of Australia’s largest super funds, it provides superannuation and income stream accounts to more than 920,000 (as at 30 June 2024) and it manages more than $94 billion (as at 30 June 2024). Cbus’ members include workers and retirees, their families and employers.
This case study highlights how Cbus uses advocacy as a key tool through which it can contribute to the shaping of policy, regulation and standards that are needed to reduce systemic risks.
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University Pension Plan (UPP)
University Pension Plan (UPP) is a defined benefit pension plan serving over 40,000 members in the university sector in Ontario, Canada and managing CAD $11.7 billion in pension assets. As a long-term investor, UPP recognizes that environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors, including climate change, present risks and opportunities to its investment portfolio.
