In the five markets examined by the Global Sustainable Investment Alliance-Australia and New Zealand, Canada, Europe, Japan, and the United States-sustainable investments reached assets of $30.7 trillion in early 2018, one-third of total investment. Investors are also increasingly conscious of environmental issues. 1 See, for example, the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures () and the CDP (cdp.net). Activist shareholders, for example, are challenging US- and Europe-based oil majors on their climate policies and emissions-reduction plans. One is that investors are pushing companies to disclose consistent, comparable, and reliable data. Several trends are focusing the minds of industry executives.
