{"id":18275,"date":"2020-05-05T15:00:47","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T19:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/ontario-teachers-expanding-relationship-with-wellington-to-tackle-climate-risk-145725"},"modified":"2020-05-05T15:00:47","modified_gmt":"2020-05-05T19:00:47","slug":"ontario-teachers-expanding-relationship-with-wellington-to-tackle-climate-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2020\/05\/05\/ontario-teachers-expanding-relationship-with-wellington-to-tackle-climate-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario Teachers\u2019 expanding relationship with Wellington to tackle climate risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"alignleft clearfix\">\n<div class=\"wp-caption feature-image alignleft\"> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"316\" height=\"190\" src=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Green-Shutterstock.jpg\" class=\"attachment-feature size-feature wp-post-image\" alt title=\"Ontario Teachers\u2019 expanding relationship with Wellington to tackle climate risk\"> <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"byline\"> <span>Staff<\/span>&nbsp;|&nbsp;May 5, 2020 <\/p>\n<p>The&nbsp;Ontario Teachers\u2019 Pension Plan is expanding its strategic relationship with&nbsp;Wellington Management Co. to better integrate climate science research into its investments.<\/p>\n<p>Ontario Teachers\u2019 and Wellington are collaborating with the&nbsp;Woods Hole Research Center, a climate-change think tank, with the goal of applying research findings when executing the pension fund\u2019s investment strategies and providing insights to investment teams on the medium- and long-term financial implications of physical climate-related risks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/utam-joins-institutional-investors-calling-on-aviation-sector-to-address-climate-change-142686\">UTAM joins institutional investors calling on aviation sector to address climate change<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur investments, particularly those in real assets, require careful consideration of the physical risks posed by climate change,\u201d&nbsp;said&nbsp;Ziad Hindo, chief investment officer at Ontario Teachers\u2019, in a press release. \u201cWith access to top quality climate science data, we can build on our own expertise in this area and use the research provided to develop deeper insights.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe world will not be the same after COVID-19, but our commitment to responsible investing will not change. Strong, mutually beneficial relationships \u2014 such as ours with Wellington and Woods Hole \u2014 will continue to be a key component of delivering on our commitment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/canadian-institute-of-actuaries-calls-for-mandatory-climate-change-financial-reporting-136144\">Canadian actuaries calling for mandatory financial reporting around climate change<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/ontario-teachers-expanding-relationship-with-wellington-to-tackle-climate-risk-145725\">Read the full article at BenefitsCanada.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff&nbsp;|&nbsp;May 5, 2020 The&nbsp;Ontario Teachers\u2019 Pension Plan is expanding its strategic relationship with&nbsp;Wellington Management Co. to better integrate climate science research into its investments. Ontario Teachers\u2019 and Wellington are collaborating with the&nbsp;Woods Hole Research&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18275"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}