Standards & schemes
Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change
In brief
The IIGCC Net Zero Investment Framework (2.0) is the institutional-investor methodology for aligning portfolios with net zero. It provides target-setting guidance at portfolio and asset-class level, criteria for assessing assets' alignment, and approaches to stewardship and allocation, developed by the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change with input from other investor networks. It underpins the targets of asset owners and managers in the net-zero alliances and is the most widely used Paris-alignment framework among European institutional investors. It is a methodology for internal target-setting and disclosure, not a certification of portfolios. The framework covers listed equity and corporate bonds, real estate, infrastructure, private equity and sovereign debt, with asset-class-specific guidance. Its target taxonomy distinguishes portfolio-coverage targets from financed-emissions targets, and it expects investors to publish their alignment methodology — which is what allows outsiders to test a 'net-zero portfolio' claim. Alignment with these principles is a stated position, not a certification; it does not by itself demonstrate compliance or outcomes.
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