Climate-proofing South African retirement funds: The fiduciary response to the global climate crisis (Cape Town)

Thu Aug 1, 08:00 - Thu Aug 1, 12:30

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Climate-proofing South African retirement funds:

The fiduciary response to the global climate crisis (Cape Town: 1 August)

The early effects of global climate breakdown, from the devastating Northern Cape drought to Cyclone Idai, are hitting South Africa. Climate protests, now led by millions of school children, are multiplying around the world.

Funds worth over $8 trillion have committed to fossil fuel divestment, while 477 investors worth a combined $34 trillion in assets have called on the world’s governments to fully implement the Paris climate treaty and help keep average global warming to 1.5C by 2100. South African legal opinion now suggests all retirement fund boards need to assess and plan for climate and carbon risk. Retirees face multiplying environmental and financial risks.

So how should retirement fund boards respond? These 4-hour workshops include:


  • Expert input from PRI CEO Fiona Reynolds
  • An overview of recent climate science
  • Fossil Free SA on the global fossil fuel divestment movement
  • Just Share on the legal obligations of retirement fund board members
  • Naviga Solutions on the BCI Select ESG Equity Fund
  • DNA Economics on a climate resilience index

Partners and sponsors: Fossil Free SA, 350 Africa, UN-supported Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), DNA Economics, Futuregrowth, Batseta.

Note: This four-hour morning event is being held in Johannesburg and Cape Town on successive days: 31 July (Jhb) and 1 August (CT). This is the page to book for Cape Town, 1 August 2019, 8am for 8.30am.

(Book here for Johannesburg on 31 July.)

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Climate-proofing South African retirement funds: The fiduciary response to the global climate crisis (Cape Town)
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