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Insurance and Sustainable FinanceJuly 8, 2019
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Divya Bendre, Vice President, Sustainable Finance, [email protected]
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7%11%
58%
24% Wind
Solar
Energy Efficiency
Sustainably-managed forestry
44%
56%
Wind
Solar
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Green Bonds: Insurers as investors and issuers
Case study: Manulife
Green Bonds Issued
MFC 3.0% SGD 500 million subordinated debt due 21 November 2029
MFC 3.317% CAD 600 million subordinated debt due 9 May 2028
General account investments in renewable
energy and energy efficiency projects
52,700 tons/year
Est. CO2e avoided
258,400 tons/year
Est. CO2e avoided Responsible Investment at Manulife - highlights
• Manulife Investment Management is a UNPRI signatory
• By 2018 nearly 49.5 million square feet (80% of real
estate portfolio) had been certified under a sustainable
building certification program such as LEED, ENERGY
STAR or BOMA BEST
• John Hancock Investments manages almost $241 million
in assets through four ESG funds
• Hancock Agricultural Investment Group started working
with consultants on an agricultural sustainability framework
for measuring and managing the sustainability
performance of its U.S. farmland
Example projects:
• Rivière-du-Moulins Wind Project, Quebec, Canada
• Grand Renewable Solar Project, Ontario, Canada
Example projects:
• Campo Palomas Wind Project B-bond, Salto, Uruguay
• Acquisition of Axium Infinity Solar portfolio, Ontario, Canada
• Financing of Hannon Armstrong energy efficiency projects, Washington, DC
• Vinegar Bend Timber, Alabama & Mississippi
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Unpacking the terms: Sustainable Finance – Impact Investing – ESG Investing
Financial materiality and/or impact considerations
• Investments that are not differentiable on risk or return can be differentiated along the real economy impact axis
• Some investors are trying to balance real-world impact alongside risk and returns considerations
• ESG data contributes to both traditional risk-return analysis (e.g. PD-LGD) and impact analysis
Source: PRI An evolving industry: future-proofing the investment strategy
Three investments with the
same risk-return profile
Same three investments,
but with real-world impact
plotted
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Sustainable Financing Landscape
‘Labeled’ Bonds and Loans
Source: Environmental Finance articles
Green, Social & Sustainability Bonds ~ $750bn
Use of Proceeds - focused Margin/coupon - focused
NEW – ‘Transition’ Bonds
CLP Holdings
Energy Transition
Bond
SNAM Climate
Action Bond
Green Loans ~ $25bn
Sustainability Linked Loans ~ $87bn
Other structured transactions:
- Equity-index linked bonds
- ‘Green Coupon’ bond
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Green Bond Market
Organic growth driven by investor demand
0
50
100
150
200
2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Europe North America Supranationals
Asia-Pacific Africa Latin America
USDbn
Global Green Bonds (USD596bn eq. to date)
By use of proceeds category
By issuer type
35%
25%
17%
11%
4%3% 2%1%
Energy
Buildings
Transport
Water
Waste
Land Use
Adaptation
Industry
14%
13%
19%
20%
7%
20%
7%
Government-Backed Entity ABSDevelopment Bank Financial CorporateLocal Government Non-Financial CorporateSovereign
Source: Climate Bonds Initiative
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ESG Ratings
ESG performance: managing risks and opportunities
Which ESG ratings do you consider to be of
highest quality i.e. excellence, robustness and
accuracy of evaluation?
Source: SustainAbility 2018 Rate the Raters survey of corporate sustainability
practitioners; n=319 (Investor survey to come in 2019)
NEW - ESG analysis from rating agencies
On-request ESG
evaluation service
Proposed on-request
corporate governance
assessment and carbon
transition risk assessment
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Formalizing ESG Risk Analysis
Rating Agencies
2018 Environmental Risks
Global Heatmap
ESG Risk Atlas: Sector And Regional
Rationales And Scores
Source: Moody’s, S&P
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Formalizing ESG Risk Analysis
Investors
Understanding ESG in Bonds
Source: PIMCO June 2019
Looking ahead, our view is that ESG-based analysis should be a
natural part of bond investing, along with the assessment of credit,
duration, and other risk factors. We are committed to putting this into
practice across our portfolios both from a top-down perspective, where we
see ESG analysis as consistent with our annual Secular Forum process,
and from a bottom-up perspective, where ESG is integrated into our
fundamental research across fixed income sectors.
- PIMCO Secular Outlook, May 2019
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Emerging Green Taxonomies
Defining ‘Green’ and what’s better than Business-As-Usual
Other taxonomiesProposed EU Sustainable Finance Taxonomy
To be included, economic activities must
• make a substantial contribution to one environmental objective meet any
specified technical screening criteria:
1. climate change mitigation
2. climate change adaptation
3. sustainable use and protection of water and marine resources
4. transition to a circular economy, waste prevention and recycling
5. pollution prevention and control
6. protection of healthy ecosystems
• do no significant harm to the other environmental objectives, and
• meet minimum social safeguards (compliance with International Labour
Organisation (ILO) core labour conventions)
67 economic activities have been classified as:
• Green activities: Activities that are already low-carbon and compatible with a 2050
net zero carbon economy
• ‘Greening of’ activities: Activities that contribute to a transition to a net-zero
emissions economy in 2050 but are not currently close to a net-zero carbon emissions
level
• ‘Greening by’ activities: Activities that enable low carbon performance or enable
substantial emissions reductions
Source: EU Technical Expert Group
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Policy: Central Banks and Supervisors
Drivers for continued momentum in sustainable finance
Financial System Review—2019
Vulnerabilities in the Canadian financial system:
1. Elevated level of household indebtedness
2. Imbalances in the housing market
3. Cyber threats and financial interconnections
4. Fragile corporate debt funding from certain markets
5. Climate change: (NGFS-related commitments)1. Integrating climate-related risks into financial stability monitoring
and micro-supervision. The Bank will develop the tools needed to
monitor and analyze climate-related risks, leading to a meaningful
assessment of these risks. One approach is to use scenario analysis.
2. Integrating sustainability factors into own-portfolio management.
The Bank is considering how to integrate environmental, social and
governance factors into its investment framework for the Bank of Canada
pension fund.
3. Bridging the data gaps. By participating in the NGFS working groups
and other groups, the Bank will help identify data gaps. This will help
relevant domestic and international stakeholders focus their efforts to
improve the availability of data.
4. Building awareness and intellectual capacity and encouraging
technical assistance and knowledge sharing. The Bank is building its
analytical capacity as part of a multi-year research plan. To accelerate
the plan’s development, the Bank is collaborating with the NGFS and
other groups. The Bank plans to publish its work on the Financial System
Hub and as part of the Financial System Review.
6. Rapid change in crypto-asset markets
Source: Bank of Canada, Environmental Finance Articles
“The FPC and the PRC are announcing that they will
stress test the UK financial system for resilience
against different climate pathways. The design of this
stress test will start in the autumn, and the tests will be
completed in 2021. …From next year, the Bank will
become the first central bank to adopt the TCFD
recommendations across our entire operations. And to
improve our strategic resilience, the Bank will reduce the
Bank’s carbon footprint by almost two thirds by 2030,
consistent with a transition to a 1.5 degree
World.”
- Mark Carney, Governor, Bank of England
"To be clear, we are thinking about this across all of our
operations. But the single most useful thing I can do to
green my balance sheet is to get the banks we make
loans to, and take deposits from, to green their
balance sheets."
- Sarah Breeden, Executive Director, International Bank
Supervision, PRA
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