Environmental, social and governance (ESG)
Our central resource for guidance and information on climate change, stewardship, investment governance and other ESG matters.
Code of practice
Climate change
Managing risks and opportunities from climate change, including as part of the scheme's investment strategy.
Stewardship
How governing bodies should exercise the range of rights and responsibilities given to them through ownership of scheme investments.
Guidance
Climate-related governance and reporting
How trustees can meet the requirements for the governance and reporting of their scheme’s climate-related risks and opportunities.
DB investment
Investment guidance for trustees and advisers running schemes that offer defined benefits, including when to consider ESG issues.
DC investment governance
Having the right investment governance arrangements and investment strategies for defined contribution schemes, including ESG considerations.What we are doing on ESG
Climate change strategy
A strategy setting out our response to climate change and how we can help trustees meet the challenges that climate change presents.
Climate adaptation report
A report setting out the risks from climate change to us as a regulator and organisation, and our approach to tackling them.
Net zero report
A report setting out our pathway to achieving our 2030 net zero goals and reducing our operational emissions.
Blogs
Read our latest views about climate change and ESG issues in our blog.
Trustee toolkit
Learn about considering climate change and ESG issues as part of investment and risk management in our Trustee toolkit.
Research and analysis
For our reviews of climate-related disclosures by pension schemes and trustee compliance with ESG duties, go to research and analysis.
Resources from other organisations
Achieving deforestation-free pensions
An interactive guide to providing a practical pathway for pension funds to eliminate deforestation, conversion and associated human rights abuses from their portfolios.
Applying behavioural insight to green pensions
Department for Work and Pensions report on defined contribution pension members’ engagement with environmentally sustainable pensions.
Climate Financial Risk Forum
The CFRF builds capacity and shares best practice across financial regulators and industry to advance the sector’s responses to the financial risks from climate change.
Climate scenarios to help tackle climate change
Climate scenarios developed by the Universities Superannuation Scheme and the University of Exeter to help tackle climate change.
Climate Scorpion: introducing planetary solvency (PDF)
A report by the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries on the actuarial approach to climate risk, understanding and managing risks to the long-term survival of global society.
Emperor's New Climate Scenarios – a warning for financial services
Using actuarial principles to look at the limitations and assumptions relating to climate-change scenario modelling practices in financial services.Introduction to ISSB and IFRS sustainability disclosure standards
An overview of the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) and the IFRS Sustainability Disclosure Standards.
Loading the DICE Against Pensions
A call to action for investment professionals to implement investment strategies, particularly a rapid wind down of the fossil fuel system.Measuring climate-related financial risks using scenario analysis
A report that explores how financial institutions can use scenario analysis to quantify climate change risks.
Net-zero transition planning for pensions
How the Economics of Energy Innovation and System Transition (EEIST) programme can be applied to catalyse a shift in transition planning in the investment industry.
Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures
Recommendations and guidance to help business and finance assess, report and act on their nature-related dependencies, impacts, risks and opportunities.
TNFD National Consultation Group
The UK policy and regulatory landscape relevant to nature and the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD).
Taskforce to support engagement with social factors in ESG investing
A Minister-led taskforce to help pension schemes address the risks and seize the opportunities of the 'social' element in ESG investing.
Transition Plan Taskforce Disclosure Framework
The TPT Disclosure Framework sets out good practice for robust and credible climate change transition plan disclosures.