Profits from oil and gas industry offers scope for climate investments
PGGM, PFZW and Follow This agree at shareholders meetings, write Andres van der Linden and Piet Klop.
Piet Klop
Head of Responsible Investment
In my opinion, investing is more than simply a way of earning money. Consequently, I am constantly looking for ways of investing that will benefit both people and the environment. In so doing, I make use of my educational background in both environmental science and economics, as well as of my international experience.
My publications
Pushing frontiers of impact measurement
Together with UBS Asset Management, City University of New York and Harvard University we are developing a new methodology for measuring impact, that enables us to compare companies on impact per euro invested. IPE (Investment & Pensions Europe) wrote about the developing of the new method.
Allocating impact: why and how
PGGM reconnects investments to real world economic, social and environmental needs and aspirations. Our vision: in five to ten years it will be standard practice to characterise all our investments by their effects on society. IPE (Investment & Pensions Europe) published a commentary about the why, what and how.
Working with the Impact Management Project
PGGM has mapped the investment portfolio by its effects on people and planet. A learning experience, according to Piet Klop and Cedric Scholl.
Engaged on every water front
Investments in solutions to water scarcity can be made worldwide, far away, and close to home, says Piet Klop.
SDGs: towards a common set of impact indicators
PGGM and other Dutch investors and companies propose indicators to measure the impact of their assets to the Sustainable Development Goals.
Investing in solutions and measuring the impact
Impact investing needs robust measurement of the positive impact we want to make, explains Piet Klop to IPE.
Energy transition requires large-scale financing
PGGM is investing in the first of a series of French green government bonds. Green bonds offer the scale required to finance the transition to a clean energy provision.