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LGPS funds and Europe's largest pension scheme among latest investors to embrace NZIF decarbonisation guidelines

Cecilia Keating and Hope William-Smith

08 June 2021 • 3 min read

Two Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) funds and Europe's largest pension fund, Stichting Pensioenfonds ABP, are among the latest batch of major investors that have committed to using the Net Zero Investment Framework (NZIF) to help decarbonise their portfolios.

The Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC) announced that six new organisations have today (8 June) become members of the Paris Aligned Asset Owners (PAAO) group — a forum that req...

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