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投资者迫使公司面对水风险

Norges Bank Investment Management,负责管理5000亿美元的政府养老基金的挪威央行的ARM,是为了使公司在其投资组合中更具含水意识。

Norges Bank Investment Management,负责管理5000亿美元的政府养老基金的挪威央行的ARM,是为了使公司在其投资组合中更具含水意识。“我们将成为这些公司和这些部门的投资者,几十年来,”NBIM全球所有权政策负责人Anne Kvam说。“如果没有处理与水有关的风险,公司将会出现问题,然后我们会出现问题。”

去年,NBIM发布了对其投资组合企业应该如何解决与稀缺和污染等水有关的风险的期望。该名单敦促他们开发清晰透明的水管理策略,分析其水脚印和风险,并采取预防和纠正措施。

APG,荷兰养老金资产经理,可持续发展和治理负责人Claudia Kruse负责人,帮助组合管理人员了解水风险并在其周围进行投资决策。因为它对大多数投资者来说是一个相对较新的概念,克鲁兹承认,工具和信息往往缺乏。“虽然有一些关于公司提供的水能数据,但很多仍然是差不多的,不一致,”她说。

但潮流似乎是转向。各种团体正在推出寻求提高认识的举措和产品,促进标准化报告,帮助投资者解决这种复杂的环境风险。

碳披露项目 - 一个基于伦敦的非营利组织,以自2003年开始标准化和公布主要公司的温室气体排放披露 - 推出了CDP?除了去年的水披露。当CDP向世界上最大和大多数水密集型公司的302份送到302家中,137名机构投资者代表了16万亿美元的资产签署了这封信。亚博赞助欧冠今年该数字跃升至354名投资者代表34万亿美元。

Bloomberg新能源金融正在开发水信息产品,将增加供需模型,水数据和新闻和水资源简报,帮助用户在投资中揭示水风险。Bloomberg Nef的伦敦的水上洞察服务头,彭博·克里斯卡努说,它应该在9月开始运行。

投资者tend to think of water risk like carbon emissions. That’s a big mistake, says Piet Klop, a senior fellow in the markets and enterprise program at the Washington-based World Resources Institute. “Water’s very local,” Klop says. “Where you are matters, and so does the quality of the water. Water is infinitely more complex, and that makes it a lot harder for investors to get their heads around.”

WRI与General Electric Co.和Goldman Sachs Group合作,开发出一个名为Affeduct的免费在线工具。水风险Atlas,该软件将从NASA和Coca-Cola Co.等来源收集的综合数据汇总到红斑显示出有限用水的地图。

该工具的第一层是高风险地区的全球地图;第二个将在中国的黄河流域和科罗拉多河流域中最终提供有关十个水分地区的细节。

“If as an investor you’re looking at a company that turns out to have a concentration of its assets or suppliers in high-water-risk areas, you may want to take that into account and ask that company what they’re doing about it,” Klop says. “A lot of companies are making efficiency improvements for show, in a way that makes no economic or environmental sense.”

在高盛的副总裁Nushin Kormi environmental markets group, says it is important to bring some clarity to water risk. “When we look at the issues surrounding climate change, we see a lot of work being done on carbon, but not as much has been done on water,” notes Kormi, who coordinates Goldman’s involvement in the Aqueduct project. “But water is one of the potential risks our clients are exposed to.” • •