Institutions study new strategies to tackle energy transition

In the race to achieve net zero, institutional investors are coming to realise that no amount of investment in alternative energy will meet climate goals alone. It is now time, they say, to see big polluters as partners in the energy transition. John Pearce, CIO at UniSuper in Australia says that, for him, decarbonisation means investing in industries that will facilitate the transition. “It’s impossible to decarbonise without essential metals like copper and steel, and we see c…