This report was produced by the OECD Environment Directorate, directed by Rodolfo Lacy, and the Climate, Biodiversity and Water Division, led by Simon Buckle. This report is authored by Dirk Röttgers and Aayush Tandon, under the supervision of Robert Youngman. The authors are grateful to Antoine Cosson and Joséphine Tassy, for providing substantive inputs to the report. In addition, the authors would like to thank Nassera Belkhiter, Elvira Berrueta-Imaz, Pascale Dénoyer, Niels Gaunard, Elodie Prata-Leal and Ines Reale for administrative support and Sama Al Taher Cucci, Beth Del Bourgo and Stephanie Simonin-Edwards for communications. The authors are responsible for any errors.
This report includes insights from in-depth interviews with investors and investor representatives from the Geneva Association, HSBC Asset Management, Nippon Life, Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets (MIRA), Pensionskassernes Administration A/S (PKA) and Principles for Responsible Investing (PRI).The authors are grateful for their availability, openness and insights.
This report has benefited from discussions with and reviews from the following OECD experts: Aimee Aguilar Jaber, Geraldine Ang, Timothy Bishop, Simon Buckle, Romain Despalins, Dennis Dlugosch, Alexander Dobrinevski, Kathleen Dominique, Havard Halland, Raphael Jachnik, Mireille Martini, Alejandra Medina (and team), Daniel Nachtigall, Joel Paula, Harry Smythe, Dariusz Stanko and Cecilia Tam. In addition, the authors are extremely grateful for comments received from Michael Sheren (Bank of England).
This report substantially benefitted from the generous support of the Japanese government.