The taxonomy as the tool to accelerate market adoption of investments aligned with the SDGs.
Together with our distribution partner Qontigo and PGGM the SDI AOP hosted an engaging breakfast roundtable in London on 19th April.
Participants featuring banks, institutional asset managers, and public and private pensions gathered to debate trends and common challenges around SDGs, and how the SDI AOP founders like PGGM are envisioning the asset-owner governed taxonomy as the tool to accelerate market adoption of investments aligned with the SDGs.
Attendees discussed about challenges in sourcing suitable datasets and standards to match sustainable objectives, how users can leverage the SDI AOP datasets to set sustainable investment themes and goals, and the features of the recently launched forward-looking SDI AOP dataset that quantifies the alignment of a company's patent portfolio with the SDGs.
PGGM’s Jaap van Dam and Hans Op t Veld, and the SDI AOP’s research director James Leaton, illustrated the driving motivation behind forming an asset owner-led initiative and network, how the AOP translates SDGs into actionable investments by describing the construction and governance of the taxonomy’s methodology and ongoing research efforts, the continuous enhancements made to the platform, which includes the newly launched SDI Dashboarding capabilities, and how current members – including PGGM themselves – currently uses the data to embed the SDGs into their investment process.
