Global Investor Statement on Climate Change: Reducing Risks, Seizing Opportunities and Closing the Climate Investment Gap

This policy document presents a global investor statement on climate change. It stresses that investors are concerned with the risks presented by climate change to regional and global economies and to individual assets. At the same time, they are interested in the large potential economic opportunities that the transition to a low-carbon economy presents. However, private investment will only flow at the scale and pace necessary if it is supported by clear, credible, and long-term policy frameworks that shift the risk-reward balance in favor of less carbon-intensive investment. In this document, investors call for specific policies and finance tools needed to catalyze private investment in the low-carbon economy. Also available in Portuguese.