It’s hard for investors to know how sustainable their investments are, and even harder for watchdogs to hold companies accountable for their claims
The International Monetary Fund agrees there’s a problem with the lack of actionable data. The fund’s 2020 Global Financial Stability Report warns that investors are underestimating the financial risks from climate change, and urges companies to start disclosing their exposure.
Fossil fuel investment offers a developing case study of how the data gaps could cause problems for investors. Carbon Tracker, a think tank that analyses capital markets, published a report this week warning that because of behavior changes brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic, coinciding with an oil price war, the value of the world’s fossil fuel reserves could fall by two-thirds in coming years.
,” according to the report, but without more real-time and comparable data, it’s hard to know how high the risk is.around the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The U.N. estimates at least $5 trillion in extra investment is needed to achieve these goals by their 2030 deadline, but companies lack global data sets to figure out how to invest more efficiently to achieve the goals.
Help is on the way. The United Nations and the Institute of International Finance teamed with a group of universities and othersA separate initiative — the International Network for Sustainable Financial Policy Insights Research, and Exchange — is working on 21 projects aimed at
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