CONTRIBUTION TO GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE? VIEWPOINT FROM PENSION FUNDS AND UNITED NATIONS PRINCIPLES FOR RESPONSIBLE INVESTMENT

Contribution to the global environmental governance can take place via a path involving parties like United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment, United Nations Environment Programme and institutional investors like pension funds. I find this through the following: Pension funds call for additional governance and transparency to the financial market, and better accessibility to responsible investment, suggesting the integration of these qualities to global responsible investment guidelines. United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment is a key actor in providing responsible investment guidelines and making responsible investment accessible globally. Through the most used form of responsible investment, engagement, institutional investors can contribute to their environmental investments by integrating global environmental governance viewpoints that encourage the field to develop.