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以下为嘉宾发言的内容翻译摘要(附英文发言内容)
英文内容:
Greetings, everyone, I’m Fiona Reynolds and the CEO of the Principles for Responsible Investment or PRI for short. And firstly, for those of you who are not familiar with the PRI, just a very quick introduction, the PRI was formed in 2006, out of the UN system by a small but committed group of 86 global asset owners aiming to bring sustainability to capital markets. And today we represent the global responsible investment community with more than 4,000 signatories to our six principles, who collectively represent over 121 trillion us in assets, under management. And this is more than half of the world's institutionally managed assets. The PRI signatory base has really grown rapidly over the past 15 years and this includes in mainland China, where we now have more than 60 signatories. In June, we welcome Tai Kang insurance group as our 4,000 signatories and our signatory base also includes the largest Chinese insurers and asset management companies, including several of China's top 10 mutual fund managers, such as China AMC, Harvest, and E fund.
It's been great to see the really rapid uptake of ESG by Chinese investors in recent years and the country's continued leadership on green finance. Last year, we welcomed China's commitment to net zero by 2060. Now for the first time, sustainability issues are beginning to enter the mainstream in China, bringing with it real potential to make progress towards our economic, environmental, and social goals. Over the past decade, but particularly in the last three to five years, we've seen a shift with a significant acceleration in the uptake of ESG investing and both the mainstream and maturing of responsible investment philosophies and practices. As the world continues to grapple with COVID-19, the urgency to deliver the sustainable development goals, the SDGs, by 2030 and to meet net zero climate targets has really only grown. Expectations of investors from stakeholders, including beneficiaries, clients, governments, and regulators are shifting, driven by increased visibility and urgency around many issues such as climate change, income inequality, and labor rights.
But in order to support meeting the SDGs, investors must really understand how they can increase the positive outcomes and decrease the negative outcomes arising from their actions. By shaping real-world outcomes alongside risk and return, investors can play an important role in addressing issues that seriously threatened the long-term performance of economies, portfolios, and the world into which we all live and our beneficiaries, which wish to retire. And so to help our signatories better understand how to shape outcomes, we've launched our current three-year strategy under the theme of building a bridge between financial risk, opportunities, and real world outcomes. Alongside our core work on investment practices and frameworks, we will support the evolution of the investment industry. Increasingly, we see investors recognizing feedback loops between the real economy and financial markets where the outcomes they shape directly impact the risks and opportunities they face. So this strategy will help those signatory seeking to understand what this looks like in practice, how to integrate and measure outcomes while remaining firmly grounded in fiduciary duty and the broader role of investors in society.
As a first step, we've launched a five-part framework on investing with SDG outcomes. We're now working to assist signatories, seeking to shape outcomes in line with the SDGs across the proposed framework per each of the investor actions, as well as supporting disclosure and reporting. In addition, later this month, we're launching one of our flagship programs called a legal framework for impact report. And it's been done in collaboration with our sister organization, you know, PFI and with the Generation Foundation, it sets out to clarify what investing for sustainability impact actually means, when investors can seek to achieve positive impact on people and the planet and how this relates to delivering financial returns. The paper also provides a legal analysis from 11 jurisdictions and lays the foundation for the financial policy reforms. We need to reorientate markets and economies towards net zero and inclusive, sustainable economic growth.
Of course, given the scale of the challenges we face, investors cannot tackle these problems alone, so encouraging collaboration across the entire finance sector, as well as with governments and other key stakeholders. This includes emerging markets, which will be critical to our success. To hit the UN goals by 2030 by that deadline, investment is solely needed, especially in emerging markets, which tend to be disproportionately impacted by climate change. Emerging markets will play an important role in achieving the sustainability goals. And at the PRI we've seen more than 50% growth in the number of signatories who are headquartered in emerging markets since 2020, the world investment report by UNCTAD estimates that between five and 7 trillion us dollars will be needed globally every year from 2015 to 2030 to finance progress towards the SDGs. Out of this, 3.5 to 4.5 trillion is needed in developing countries. The capital inflows are still insufficient to drive this change with an annual shortfall of between 2.5 and 3 trillion US dollars.
There is a rapidly decreasing window of time to get things right, to align with the goals of the Paris agreement and ensure the SDGs get the funding and support they need, especially in emerging markets. It's clear that we really need to go further, faster, and this is why a key initiative for us at the PRI is supporting responsible investment in emerging markets. We'll work to strengthen the responsible investment practices of local investors and encourage the flow of ESG focused capital into these markets. In China, we'll be continuing to support investors to incorporate ESG issues into their investment practices by promoting mandatory requirements on ESG disclosures. In addition, starting this year, we are undertaking work to support Chinese investors in incorporating sustainability outcomes into their investment practices and are developing policy recommendations for incorporating wider sustainability issues into the financial system, with the support of the Ford foundation. We look forward to continuing to work with investors, government and institutions, such as the CAFI in China to mainstream responsible investment, drive positive sustainability outcomes and help build a more prosperous world for all. So thank you for having me. I'm sorry we couldn't all be together in person and please stay safe and well.
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