With Josephine Richardson, Anthropocene Fixed Income Institute
“Historically, a lot of the engagement has been focused on high-profile names, everyone can name two or three companies they associate with deforestation.”
“Until you have a more comprehensive assessment and you can make statements such as 10% of my portfolio is associated with deforestation, it can be quite hard to integrate this into everyday decisions.”
“Companies with deforestation exposure have collectively issued more than $1.3trn dollars of debt, that is enormous part of the market and an enormous potential pool of investors who can use their investment decisions to engage, to ask questions, to seek better disclosure.”
With Dr Ellen Quigley and Lily Macfadyen Tomson
With Dr Ellen Quigley and Lily Macfadyen Tomson
“Around 90% of new capital flowing into fossil fuels comes from the debt site, if you look at capital flows.”
“We are seeing still an increase in passive investments, bonds are catching up with equities and there was almost nothing there on the phase out of fossil fuels.”
“The parent index is the Bloomberg IG Corporate Global which means that the scope of the index as a whole is the whole standard investable universe for investment grade corporate bonds.”
“We are particularly interested in behaviour that is most concerning from a systemic climate risk perspective, mainly fossil fuel expansionism and failure to phase down in a Paris aligned way.”
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