Asset managers caught between two visions of climate change

Climate data from private assets is thin on the ground. (Image: NZME)

Thu, 04 Sep 2025

Institutional investors are finding the politicisation of responsible investing in the United States challenging, as other jurisdictions such as the European Union move in a different direction. The Australasian-focused Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC), together with New Zealand’s Centre for Sustainable Finance and Mindful Money, surveyed NZ’s institutional investors between Sept 13 and Nov 8 last year The survey on climate policies and actions ended three days after the US presidential election that propelled Donal...

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