About INCR

The Investor Network on Climate Risk (INCR) provides tools for investors to manage the risks and capture the opportunities posed by climate change.

INCR is coordinated by Ceres, a coalition of investors and environmental groups working to advance sustainable prosperity.

INCR was launched at the first Investor Summit on Climate Risk  at the United Nations in November 2003. INCR has grown from 10 investors with $600 billion in assets to more than 90 investors with nearly $10 trillion in assets. Members include asset managers, state and city treasurers and comptrollers, public and labor pension funds, foundations, and other institutional investors.

Leveraging the collective power of its members, INCR has achieved significant results in addressing the risks and opportunities posed by climate change.  INCR successes include:

• The 2010 Investor Summit on Climate Risk at the United Nations: More than 520 investor, financial, and corporate leaders from around the world with over $22 trillion in combined assets gathered at the Summit to consider investor and policy action for building a low-carbon economy.
• Promoting Clean Technology Investments: Members have invested over $1.9 billion in low-carbon investments since 2008 Investor Summit on Climate Risk for a total of more than $4.9 billion since 2005. 
• Publishing cutting-edge research for investors on the implications of climate change: Including analysis of the banking sector’s exposure to climate change risks, energy efficiency in real estate portfolios, asset manager practices on climate change, and the critical link between climate change and water risk issues. 
• Spurring Improved Corporate Disclosure and Governance: Coordinated hundreds of shareholder resolutions and dialogues aimed at improving corporate disclosure and corporate governance on climate change and sustainability risks and opportunities. 
• Calling on world leaders to pass a strong and binding international treaty on global climate:  Through a policy statement signed by 181 investors representing more than $13 trillion in assets announced in September 2009. 
• Engaging the SEC: Over 40 members with $1.4 trillion in assets wrote to the SEC in 2009 seeking mandatory disclosure of climate change and other environmental, social and governance issues that pose material risks to investors.  The SEC subsequently issued this interpretive guidance in January 2010.
  
• Setting Investor Best Practices: Established a Practical Toolkit for Investors and the Global Framework for Climate Risk Disclosure, the standard sets of guidelines for managing the risks and opportunities of climate change and improving corporate disclosure on climate.
• Investor Training on Climate Risks and Opportunities: Conducted pension fund trustee training seminar in conjunction with INCR members and leading universities to educate trustees on climate investing risks  and opportunities.