Letter from Global Investors to Governments of the G7 and G20 Nations
This letter is signed by 282 investors representing more than USD $17 trillion in assets.
As long-term institutional investors, we believe that the mitigation of climate change is essential for the safeguarding of our investments.
We have previously conveyed our strong support for the Paris Agreement [link] and we reiterate our call for governments to continue to support and fully implement the Agreement.
We urge all nations to stand by their commitments to the Agreement and to put in place policy measures to achieve their nationally-determined contributions (NDCs) with the utmost urgency. In addition, we ask governments to develop focused and targeted long-term climate plans by which their NDCs become aligned with the Paris Agreement’s goal of “holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels.”