{"id":5850,"date":"2021-07-27T08:51:12","date_gmt":"2021-07-27T08:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esgtoday.com\/?p=5850"},"modified":"2021-07-27T15:04:36","modified_gmt":"2021-07-27T15:04:36","slug":"un-climate-body-publishes-net-zero-roadmap-for-financial-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esgtoday.com\/un-climate-body-publishes-net-zero-roadmap-for-financial-markets\/","title":{"rendered":"UN Climate Body Publishes Net Zero Roadmap for Financial Markets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The UN Climate Change Secretariat, the entity tasked with supporting the global response to the threat of climate change, announced the release of Climate Action Pathway 2021, aiming to provide a roadmap for financial markets to align with global net zero goals and finance the transition to a 1.5 degree future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among the key goals of the roadmap are ensuring that financial decisions incorporate climate change considerations, including adjusting price signals and profit motives to account for negative spillover effects, utilizing tools such as carbon pricing. The roadmap also calls for private finance to help drive capital flows to areas vital investment areas including clean energy and infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Climate Action Pathways highlights five impact areas for financial markets to help reach global climate goals. These include \u2018Closing the valuation gap,\u2019 aiming to correct market failures and unpriced externalities; \u2018Tackling the \u2018tragedy of the horizon\u2019 and short-termism,\u2019 lengthening investment and strategic horizons; \u2018Creating systemic transformation tools and building capacity,\u2019 including the creation of new market norms and taxonomies to help enable climate-aligned investment; \u2018Improving incentives and risk management,\u2019 promoting engagement with business to acquire relevant and material climate-related data and adopting financial incentives to drive change, and; \u2018Zero carbon, resilient infrastructure and real assets,\u2019 ensuring capital flows towards a just transition away from high carbon resources, and unlocking finance for infrastructure, clean energy and climate solutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each of the action areas under the roadmap are presented with a set of near, mid and long-term milestones. Near-term goals include ending fossil fuel subsidies and increasing integration of sustainability into building and development standards by 2021, and developing standardized accounting for climate risk and resilience, along with widely agreed targets and taxonomies by 2025. Interim goals include aligning all board and executive remuneration with net zero targets and climate risk management by 2030. 2040 goals include the broad realignment of markets to drive all sectors, including hard to abate sectors, to achieve net zero by 2050, and to have climate risk, adaptation and resilience embedded in the financial system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Vision Statement presented in the report:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>\u201cBy 2050, financial markets, institutions and systems are in place to support and fund a resilient zero-carbon economy and society, ensuring that temperature rise remains limited to 1.5 \u00b0C. This market alignment has been achieved through corresponding alignment implemented in all areas of government, business and human settlements, in partnership with civil society. 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