3: Accessing Data

The CACEIS Climate Change Briefing

In this episode, we focus on the importance of robust data and the information it can provide to help pension schemes understand climate risk. Joining Pat Sharman of CACEIS is David Hunter, Co-Founder and CIO of renewables specialist Renewity, Chandra Gopinathan, Senior Investment Manager at Railpen and Scott Foster, Head of Digital & Governance Solutions, UK, at CACEIS.

Getting access to data is a critical step for pension schemes and trustees so they can understand how their scheme’s investments are exposed to climate risks. ESG and climate risk are quickly becoming traditional risk factors, alongside financial risk, and assessing this requires high volumes of data.

We also outline some of the headwinds posed by lack of consistency in the data that’s provided across the different data vendors that supply ESG and Climate data but acknowledge that despite this, we need to be taking action now. We discuss why lack of consistency can be beneficial.

Finally our guests provide a case study in how a small DC-based trust scheme has approached the process of collecting and interpreting data on their ESG and climate risks and how this led to more positive outcomes in the engagement with their asset manager.
A Whistledown Production for CACEIS