Stabilizing the climate at no more than 1.5 C above pre-industrial levels is essential to reduce the likelihood of severe negative impacts from climate change. Climate mitigation requires both decarbonizing portfolios and restructuring the current GHG-emitting material economy by creating and deploying a vast new array of assets with different emissions profiles than those currently in use. These assets include climate technologies, nature-based solutions and climate solutions enablers, facilitators, enhancers and others.
Many asset owners have made broad commitments to climate investing that include aspirations to decarbonize key sectors of the economy and to accelerate the development and deployment of the technologies and sequestration assets to make this possible. This acceleration is typically referred to as climate solutions investing. Investing into solutions that have the greatest chance of realizing the goals of the Paris Agreement requires a different set of tools and assessment methods from other aspects of climate investing.
This report is the first step toward developing a climate solutions investing framework as part of the climate solutions initiative at the GIIN. The framework will empower asset owners to select investment strategies that will maximize the contribution of the capital they deploy towards achieving a net zero economy.
In this report you will find information about:
- climate solutions resources available to investors;
- current challenges in identifying and assessing climate solutions strategies; and
- important concepts that set climate solutions investing apart from other climate finance strategies.
Download the report to learn more today, and thank you to our partners Nuveen and the Soros Economic Development Fund for financially supporting this publication.
