Climate change threatens corporate balance sheets

Published|23.11.09

A new report ‘Managing the Unavoidable: investment implications of a changing climate’ argues that companies and their investors are failing to take climatic changes properly into account in their investment decisions. The report, produced by Henderson Global Investors, Insight Investment, Railpen Investments, and the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS), with specialist input from Acclimatise, builds on four sector specific reports commissioned from Acclimatise. It calls on investors to ensure that companies have clear strategies for responding to climate change and reporting on risk assessment processes. It also urges investors to play a much more proactive role in public policy debates on adaptation, highlighting a need to develop long-term policies which enable companies to plan and invest appropriately.

The reports can be downloaded from the investors section of our website and the full press release accompanying the release of the reports can be downloaded here.