The Cadlas Sourcebook on Investor Stewardship for Climate Resilience: A Practical Resource for Embedding Climate Resilience into Investment Practices
After extensive consultations across the investment industry, Cadlas is pleased to announce the release of our Investor Stewardship for Climate Resilience Sourcebook. This new resource provides a practical framework for investors to align their stewardship practices with climate resilience goals. It lays out how investors can diagnose and understand physical climate risks, prioritise engagement with vulnerable companies and assets, and provide stewardship that drives the adoption of best practices on climate resilience across portfolios.
As the physical impacts of climate change intensify, investors face a defining challenge and opportunity. From floods and wildfires to water stress and heatwaves, physical climate hazards are becoming more frequent, more severe and more financially material. In this context, investors are increasingly recognising that identifying and disclosing physical climate risks is no longer enough. What is required is a shift from risk awareness to resilience action integrated directly into the way investors engage with the companies and assets they own.
The Investor Stewardship for Climate Resilience Sourcebook fills a critical gap in the market for tools and guidance that move beyond disclosure toward actionable investor engagement. It does not seek to reinvent existing investment processes, but instead demonstrates how climate resilience can be embedded within them through flexible and adaptive engagement strategies.
Importantly, the sourcebook builds on the growing body of work developed by leading investment industry bodies in recent years, aiming to advance action by focusing on the specific role investors can play in shaping a climate-resilient real economy.
This work emphasises that promoting climate resilience is aligned with investors’ fiduciary duties, encouraging investors to remain engaged and support climate resilience through targeted stewardship. It also highlights the need for tailored strategies across asset classes and geographies, while offering a curated toolkit of key resources.
By focusing on stewardship as a key instrument for advancing climate resilience, the sourcebook spells out how investors can strengthen long-term performance, manage systemic risks, and contribute to a more resilient and inclusive economy.
As physical climate impacts continue to grow in scope and scale, collaborative stewardship will be essential for unlocking the capital, capabilities, and influence needed to drive meaningful change. The time for passive risk management has passed. Through the release of this sourcebook, Cadlas hopes to contribute towards more widespread investor action that treats climate resilience not as a niche concern, but a core investment imperative.
The Investor Stewardship for Climate Resilience Sourcebook is available for download now.
Cadlas is also pleased to announce our upcoming webinar “Investor Stewardship for Climate Resilience” scheduled for 1pm (BST) on July 16th 2025. Sign up here and stay tuned for more info!
