Climate Goals

Endowments Goals

  • Net Zero Portfolios - committed to net zero emissions from all portfolio holdings by 2050 at the latest, and strong interim goals, especially for 2025 and 2030 inline with 
  • Explicitly connect climate action with social equity, recognizing that addressing inequality is essential to averting the climate crisis; recognizing that marginalized and vulnerable communities are most at risk to climate impacts; and protecting against climate solutions that inadvertently reinforce or amplify inequality.  

Consultant Goals

  • Support AOs on Net Zero Portfolio commitments-transparency, emissions measurement,
  • Evaluate managers’ capability and intent to create  Net Zero portfolios 
  • Require that recommended managers have an engagement plan with the companies in which they invest around the company goals below.
  • Explicitly connect climate action with social equity

Manager Goals 

  • Align strategies to Net Zero goals
  • Have engagement strategies with companies to meet Net Zero goals 
  • Explicitly connect climate action with social equity

Company Goals

  • Paris aligned, science-based targets + transition pathways to Net Zero by 2050 latest and strong interim goals, especially for 2025 
  • TCFD - transparency and disclosure  
  • Board accountability (and climate competence on Board), and senior management compensation tied to meeting climate goals 
  • Explicitly connect climate action with social equity

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