Investor Summit Photo Highlights
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2010 Investor Summit on Climate Risk Final Report
April 2010 - Addressing climate change is crucial for ensuring future economic prosperity. To highlight the enormous opportunities of this transition and to assess the need for climate change policy, Ceres, the United Nations Office for Partnerships, and the United Nations Foundation co-hosted the fourth Investor Summit on Climate Risk at the United Nations on January 14, 2010. More than 520 investor, financial, and corporate leaders from around the world with over $22 trillion in combined assets participated at the Summit.
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Investors Representing $13 Trillion Call on U.S. and Other Countries to Move Quickly to Adopt Strong Climate Change Policies
January 14, 2010 - On the heels of international climate treaty talks in Copenhagen, the world’s largest investors today released a statement calling on the U.S. and other governments to move quickly to adopt strong national climate policies that will spur low-carbon investments to reduce emissions causing climate change. More
January 2010 - At the third Investor Summit on Climate Risk at the United Nations in February 2008, more than 50 leading U.S. and European institutional investors representing $1.75 trillion in assets announced a new Action Plan, committing to boosting $9 investments in energy efficiency and clean energy technologies, requiring tougher scrutiny of carbon-intensive investments that $7 may pose long-term financial risks, and pledging to support$6 strong policy action on climate and energy. This report reviews the substantial progress that investors have made toward the three key objectives in the 2008 Action Plan despite the economic turmoil of the past 18 months: (1) increasing investments in clean technology, (2) engaging companies, investors, and others in requiring climate risk disclosure, and (3) supporting strong policy action on climate change.
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Watch the UNTV Webcast of the Investor Summit on Climate Risk (requires RealPlayer)
TIME on 01/15/10: After Copenhagen, Getting Business into Green Tech
This was the fourth Investor Summit on Climate Risk, occurring after Copenhagen, before the
U.S. Senate begins its real work on climate legislation this year and
just as investors begin to climb out of the recession. Investors, especially large-scale
institutional funds that need to worry about the long term, are ready
to bet on cutting carbon — but impatient. More
The New York Times on 01/14/10: White House Will Press Ahead With Climate Bill, U.S. Negotiator Tells Investors
U.S. climate envoy Todd Stern today urged nations that signed the
Copenhagen Accord to submit their greenhouse gas emissions-reduction
targets and to hammer out details critical to implementing the broad
agreement. More
CNBC (via UN Dispatch) on 01/14/10: Ted Turner and Sen Tim Wirth at the UN Today for Investors Summit on Climate Risk
Haiti has justifiably been taking up alot of energy and focus of the United Nations over the last two days. But it is worth noting that there has been a long scheduled meeting of entrepreneurs and investors concerned about climate change at the UN today.Earlier this morning, UN Foundation President Tim Wirth and Board Chair Ted Turner discussed both Haiti and today's summit on CNBC. Watch
The Guardian on 01/14/10: Investors urge governments to take immediate action on climate change
Over 450 investors controlling $13tn of assets yesterday urged world governments to pre-empt an international climate change
treaty and take immediate action on global warming, or risk losing the
opportunity to establish a clean and sustainable low-carbon economy. More
The Wall Street Journal on 01/14/10: Clean Economy Investors At UN Conference Seek Market Clarity
Investors representing $13 trillion in assets Thursday said they are
eager to invest in a low-carbon economy, but they need the certainty
and transparency of a legally binding agreement "with ambitious
greenhouse gas emission-reduction targets." More
| About the Investor Summit |
The 2010 Investor Summit on Climate Risk: Developing a Low-Carbon Economy, Leveraging Private Investment,
is the first high-level forum for investors to meet and discuss the
implications of the climate negotiations held in Copenhagen last
December.
The 2010 Summit brought together 520 leading institutional investors and state treasurers – representing more than $22 trillion in assets along with corporate executives, financial services representatives and
policymakers to consider the scale and urgency of climate change risks
and to analyze emerging investment strategies and opportunities. The
Summit explored how the rapid global shift to clean technologies and
energy efficiency can stimulate economic growth, and highlights how
investors can participate in the low-carbon transition.
The 2010 Summit builds on the groundbreaking success of the first
three UN Investor Summits in 2003, 2005 and 2008. Hundreds of
institutional investors and asset managers from around the world,
representing trillions of dollars in assets, attended previous Summits.
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