Hi everyone! Feedback request | Global Canopy invites all pension fund managers, asset managers, or representatives from financial institutions, non-governmental organisations, and Indigenous peoples and local communities for feedback on guidance for Deforestation-free Pension Funds.

Pension funds have a powerful influence over sectors and industries that are strongly connected to deforestation, conversion, and associated human rights abuses. Pension funds have the ability to help drive change not just within their own investments but across the finance sector more broadly.

To enable pension funds to address their exposure to these issues effectively, and in line with best practice, Global Canopy, alongside partners Make My Money Matter and SYSTEMIQ Ltd., are developing guidance to enable pension funds to identify, address, and eliminate deforestation, conversion, and associated human rights abuses from their investments.

The consultation document linked below is a detailed outline for guidance that is being developed; it is not comprehensive or complete but has been produced to gain feedback from stakeholders on the topics and actions included.

We are asking representatives from pension funds, asset managers, financial institutions, rightsholders, Indigenous peoples, local communities and NGOs for feedback. Please click the link below, follow the instructions and complete the survey by 5th April 2022.

If you do not feel you fit into one of the above groups and would like to review the document, or if you have any questions on this document or the associated surveys please contact the Global Canopy team at guidance@globalcanopy.org.