How to achieve deforestation-free pensions
This guide provides investors with a roadmap for creating deforestation-free pension portfolios. It offers strategies and best practices for identifying and mitigating deforestation risks, ensuring responsible investment in pension funds.
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OVERVIEW
The interactive guide “How to Achieve Deforestation-Free Pensions” offers pension funds a structured approach to eliminate deforestation, land conversion, and related human rights abuses from their investment portfolios. Developed collaboratively by Global Canopy, Make My Money Matter (MMMM), and SYSTEMIQ, the guide assists pension schemes in embedding deforestation-free criteria into agreements with asset managers and provides strategies for direct engagement with companies and investments.
Organisation behind the tool
Global Canopy, an environmental organisation dedicated to ending deforestation, leads this initiative in partnership with Make My Money Matter and SYSTEMIQ. Their combined expertise supports financial institutions in adopting sustainable investment practices.
Target audience
The guide is tailored for pension fund trustees, managers, and stakeholders involved in investment decisions. It is also pertinent to financial analysts and advisors evaluating environmental risks within investment portfolios.
Relevance to finance professionals
For finance professionals, this guide provides:
- Risk identification and assessment: It offers methodologies to detect and evaluate deforestation-related risks in investment portfolios, enhancing comprehensive risk management.
- Policy integration: The guide aids in developing investment policies that incorporate deforestation-free requirements, promoting responsible investment practices.
- Engagement frameworks: It outlines strategies for collaborating with asset managers and engaging with companies to encourage sustainable practices, aligning investments with environmental sustainability goals.
- Compliance and reporting guidance: The resource assists in understanding regulatory requirements and reporting standards related to deforestation, ensuring adherence to legal and ethical standards.
By utilising this guide, finance professionals can enhance investment strategies to mitigate environmental risks, fulfil fiduciary duties, and contribute to global sustainability efforts.
