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Big Money: Investment Managers Driving Corporate Action

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Climate One

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4.7585 Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

More than half of Americans are invested in the stock market, either directly or through their retirement funds, but individual investors rarely think about how their money is actually being put to use. And even if they decide to take a stand and divest from fossil fuels, that may not translate into a single molecule less carbon being released into the atmosphere. On the other hand, large institutional investors - like those that manage individuals’ retirement funds - can wield huge influence over the companies in their portfolios. So how are asset managers accounting for climate risk? And how can they drive corporate leaders to be more accountable for their emissions today, and cut emissions tomorrow?  This episode was supported in part by The ClimateWorks Foundation. Guests: Cynthia McHale, Senior Director, Ceres Dylan Tanner, Executive Director, Influence Map Shane Khan, Head of Research, JUST Capital Yasmin Dahya Bilger, Head of ETFs, Engine No. 1 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:36.0

This is Climate One. I'm Greg Dalton. Money managers wield a lot of power to push companies to act in the interest of their shareholders.

0:38.6

The financial risks posed by the climate crisis continued to be front and center of

0:43.8

investors' minds.

0:45.3

Increasingly, active investors are making corporations quantify and address their climate

0:50.2

responsibility in order to protect their investments.

0:53.9

When you make a strong shareholder value argument, you make it easy for other shareholders

0:59.4

to come along with you.

1:01.0

But how much can tinkering with stock markets put us on the right course?

1:05.0

The solution to climate change needs to be strong binding government regulations to limit

1:10.0

polluting emissions. Finance and voluntary

1:12.9

corporate action or citizen behavior is not going to get us there. Investment managers driving

1:18.6

corporate action up next on Climate One. More than half of Americans are invested in the

1:26.6

stock market, either directly or through their retirement funds,

1:29.7

and yet most of the leverage to direct that money rests with large institutional investors,

1:34.8

like the companies that manage those retirement funds.

1:38.3

So how are those asset managers accounting for climate risk?

1:41.5

And can they drive corporate leaders to be more accountable for

1:44.7

their emissions today and cut emissions tomorrow? I invited three financial industry experts to discuss

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