Renew Energy Partners, LLC

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Signatories of the Low Carbon Investment statement declare their support for the continued development of the green bond market, in line with global best practice, and will invest in green bonds when investment characteristics are comparable and consistent with investment objectives.

Investors commit to improving disclosures on the climate change-related risks and opportunities in their portfolios, in line with the recommendations of the Financial Stability Board’s Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) for asset owners and asset managers.

Investors commit to supporting CDP’s annual disclosure request to over 5,000 companies. Investors also commit to supporting CDP’s Investor Action request to over 1,000 high impact companies which asks these companies to:

• Use climate-related scenario analysis to inform their business strategy
• Make emissions reductions, including via projects with positive returns
• Consider committing to relevant parts of the We Mean Business coalition ‘Take Action’ campaign (including adopting science-based emissions reduction targets and implementing the recommendations of the TCFD).

Investors commit to supporting the Climate Action 100+ initiative with the aim of securing commitments from boards and senior management to:

• Implement a strong governance framework which clearly articulates the board’s accountability for and oversight of climate change risk and opportunities.
• Take action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions across their value chain, consistent with the Paris Agreement’s goal of limiting global average temperature increase to well below 2-degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
• Provide enhanced corporate disclosure in line with the final recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) and sector-specific Global Investor Coalition on Climate Change Investor Expectations on Climate Change (when applicable) to enable investors to assess the robustness of companies’ business plans against a range of climate scenarios, including well below 2-degrees Celsius scenarios, and to improve investment decision-making.

Commit to integrate climate change-related risks and opportunities in portfolio analysis and decision-making processes through one or more of the following:

• Analyzing and assessing climate change-related risks and opportunities (e.g. through carbon footprinting, scenario analysis).
• Making commitments and setting targets (e.g. to carbon footprint reduction, to enhanced portfolio resilience, to decarbonization, including via the Portfolio Decarbonization Coalition).
• Investing in low carbon investment funds and other products (e.g. low carbon indices, climate-aligned bonds).

Investors commit to phasing out our investments in thermal coal activities (specifically thermal coal mining and coal-fired power generation).

Investors commit to increasing investments in appropriate low carbon opportunities such as renewable energy, energy efficiency, low carbon transportation, energy storage and energy efficient buildings. Investors commit to reporting and sharing those commitments and those investments.

Investors commit to report on existing investment allocations to low carbon investments and on existing targets and commitments to making additional low carbon investment.