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Fighting climate change as a global equity investor
2020
Journal of Asset Management
How could global equity investors fight climate change and what are the implications for their portfolios? We construct a new climate alignment database to address these questions. Investors can fight climate change in two ways: by funding firms aligned with a sub 2 °C scenario; and by engaging firms to lower their climate footprint. Investing in climate-aligned firms does not raise portfolio risk much. For example, a simple 1.5 °C equity portfolio is only 0.9 pp more volatile than global
doi:10.1057/s41260-020-00150-9
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