Pension schemes sign charter to demand climate change action

Asset managers must make changes

Jonathan Stapleton
clock • 3 min read

Some 76 trustees and chief investment officers from UK pension schemes with combined assets of £367bn have signed a pledge to push asset managers to take more action to help combat climate change.

The charter, created by networking site Mallowstreet, looks to get managers to ask ‘what is the impact on the climate?' for each and every investment they make as well as demand that the carbon impact of investments is both measured and reported. Trustees of some of the UK's largest pension funds are represented among the signatories - including representatives from the Lloyds Banking Group, National Grid, Aviva, Nestle UK and Santander UK pension schemes. The trustees have signed the charter in their personal capacities, and while this is not binding on the pension funds they represe...

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