London's climate transition offering
Understand
current progress on climate reporting and transition planning
- Climate Governance Score
- Climate Governance Tool
Discover
best practice and areas for improvement
- Climate Reporting Guidance
- Climate Reporting Training Series
Mobilise
credible transition plans
- Sustainable Bond Market
- Transition Bond Segment
- Voluntary Carbon Market
The importance of the low-carbon transition
For the world to achieve its ambitious emissions reduction targets and to keep global temperature rise to less than two degrees higher than pre-industrial levels, a whole economy transition to low-carbon is needed.
Investors are increasingly choosing to allocate capital to companies with clear frameworks for managing climate-related risks and opportunities to make sure their portfolios are climate resilient. Companies with carbon-intensive operating models must mobilise credible transition plans to future proof their businesses for a net-zero future.
We want companies on our markets to have the right tools to produce effective reporting on climate in order to maintain access to capital from sustainability-led investors and to foster clear and direct engagement between the users of capital and those who are providing it.
- Understand and assess current climate reporting and transition planning
- Discover best practice and areas for improvement
- Mobilise transition plans to future proof your business
- Access the capital required to transition to low-carbon
Step one: Understand your current progress on climate reporting and transition planning
Transitioning to low-carbon starts with understanding your preparedness for a future in which all companies’ carbon emissions must be drastically reduced. Our new Climate Governance Score is an assessment of companies' carbon management practices and incorporation of climate change considerations into business strategies. It helps you understand where you are on this journey relative to your industry peers and the steps you can take to improve.
Discover your Climate Governance Score and personalised recommendations
Companies in the FTSE Russell research universe can see their score in the Issuer Services platform on a confidential basis.
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All other companies can use our online tool to self calculate their score and receive recommendations on how to improve their climate reporting and transition planning.
Step two: Discover best practice climate reporting and TCFD implementation
Access our educational resources to understand the climate-related data that is material to investors and how to report on it. Learn about the recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), fast becoming the industry standard for climate-related reporting.
Guidance on climate reporting
Our climate reporting guidance, which is based on the model guidance published by the UN Sustainable Stock Exchanges initiative (UN SSE), is designed to give practical advice to companies on implementing TCFD recommendations as well as provide a step-by-step guide to supporting companies on this journey. If you are integrating climate information into your reporting for the first time, this is a good place to start to build your reporting capabilities.
Training videos
We are helping companies understand the growing and evolving requirements of investors and regulators on climate-related disclosure. Our video series, which is accessible to everyone on our Issuer Services platform, features practical training that will help you understand these requirements. The series is divided into two parts, comprising bitesize videos relating to different parts of TCFD. The videos can be viewed at your own pace and remain a readily accessible resource for companies to come back to as they develop their climate reporting capabilities.
London-listed companies are also invited to take part in two interactive training sessions facilitated by expert trainers on behalf of the UN SSE that will take place in 2022.
Step three: Mobilise credible transition plans
The public markets offer a solution for companies requiring access to capital to mobilise their transition plans. Whether this is debt or equity finance, companies with credible transition strategies can access sustainability-led investors to transform their businesses in preparation for the low-carbon economy.
Transition Bond Segment
The Transition Bond Segment, an expansion of our Sustainable Bond Market, supports more carbon-intensive industry sectors transition to lower-carbon operating models, offering issuers additional visibility to investors and broadening the sustainable finance marketplace. Find out more about the Transition Bond Segment.
Voluntary Carbon Markets Solution
To support the scaling up of voluntary carbon markets, the London Stock Exchange is expected to establish a new segment using existing market infrastructure, supplemented by specific requirements relevant to carbon credit projects to enable funds to be listed that will undertake these projects. We envisage these vehicles being structured in a way that will enable their investors to receive investment returns in specie, in the form of carbon credits, instead of, or in addition to, cash dividends and other distributions.
We anticipate that corporates and other investors with long-term needs for carbon credits will be the key investors who will use the output of these vehicles to meet a portion of their needs. These investors will have the comfort of knowing that their investment will be going directly into climate action on the ground. Find out more about the Voluntary Carbon Markets.