The Ceres Investor Network includes more than 220 institutional investors managing more than $46 trillion in assets. We work with our members to advance sustainable investment practices, engage with corporate leaders, and advocate for key policy and regulatory solutions to accelerate the transition to a just, sustainable, net zero emissions economy. Our global collaborations include Climate Action 100+The Investor Agenda, the Paris Aligned Asset Owners, and the Net Zero Asset Managers initiative.

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Influential investors from leading asset management firms, public pension funds, labor and socially- responsible investment funds, foundations, endowments and family offices make up the Ceres Investor Network. Members include BlackRock, Franklin Templeton, State Street Global Advisors and Nuveen, as well as public pension funds in California, New York and Quebec.

How We Work

  • Provide top-level expertise and support for investor engagements and proxy voting on climate and sustainability issues in nearly every sector of the economy including oil and gas, electric utilities, transportation, food and agriculture, and banking.
  • Deliver cutting-edge research and interactive reports and tools that help investors navigate and understand complex environmental, social and governance (ESG) risks.
  • Support investors in ramping up sustainable investments in clean energy, clean technology innovation, and global food and water systems.
  • Advocate for clean water, forest protection and climate justice policies and standards at the federal and state level.
  • Engage with stock exchanges and financial market regulators, including the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the International Organization of Securities Commissions, on strengthening climate-related financial risk disclosures.

We track shareholder resolutions filed by our Investor Network members, focusing on the climate crisis, energy, water scarcity, and sustainability reporting. These resolutions are part of broader investor efforts to encourage companies to address the full scope of environmental, social and governance issues.

Network Members

40|86 Advisors
Addenda Capital
AFL-CIO
AGF Investments
Alexandria Real Estate Equities
Aligned Climate Capital
AllianceBernstein
Allspring Global Investments
American Fed of State, County and Municipal Employees
Amherst College
Antin Infrastructure Partners
AP7
Ariel Investments LLC
Aristotle Pacific Capital
Arizona State University Foundation
Arjuna Capital
As You Sow
ATLAS Infrastructure
Axiom Investors
Bailard
Bain Capital
Baldwin Brothers
Ballentine Partners, LLC
Berkshire Partners
BlackRock, Inc.
BMO Global Asset Management
BNP Paribas Asset Management
Boston Common Asset Management
Boston Retirement System
Boston Trust Walden Company
Breckinridge Capital Advisors
Bridge Investment Group
Brown Advisory
Builders Vision
CAAT Pension Plan
Caisse de depot et placement du Quebec
California Public Employees' Retirement System
California State Controller's Office
California State Teachers' Retirement System
California State Treasurer's Office
Calvert Research & Management
Canada Post Corporation Pension Plan
Capital Group
Capricorn Investment Group, LLC
CBC Pension Plan
CCLA Investment Management
Christian Brothers Investment Services, Inc.
Church of England Pensions Board
Church Pension Group
City of Boston
Clean Energy Ventures
Clean Yield Asset Management
CleanCapital
ClearBridge Investments
Connecticut Office of the State Treasurer
Dana Investment Advisors
DBL Partners
Domini Impact Investments LLC
DSC Meridian Capital LP
DWS Investments
Eagle Capital Management LLC
East Bay Municipal Utility District Retirement System
Ecofin
EIT InnoEnergy
Encourage Capital
Engine No. 1
Epoch Investment Partners, Inc.
EverWatch
Federated Hermes Limited
Fidelity Investments
First Affirmative Financial Network, LLC
Franklin Templeton
Friends Fiduciary Corporation
Gavi Alliance
Generate Capital
Generation Investment Management
Geode Capital Management
Globalance Bank AG
Green Century Capital Management
GreenPoint Partners
Grinnell College
Hall Capital Partners LLC
Harvard Management Company, Inc.
HASI
Humankind Investments
IFM Investors
IG Wealth Management
Illinois State Treasurer
Impax Asset Management LLC
Inherent Group
Insight Investment
International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Pension Fund
Investment Management Corporation of Ontario
Investor Advocates for Social Justice
Jennison Associates
JLens Investor Network
JVP Management
JW McConnell Family Foundation
KBI Global Investors
Kinterra Capital
KKR & Co. L.P.
Krane Funds Advisors LLC
Laborers' International Union of North America
Local Authority Pension Fund Forum
Macalester College
Mackenzie Investments
Macquarie Infrastructure & Real Assets
Maine Public Employee Retirement System
Makena Capital Management
Manulife Investment Management
Maryland State Retirement and Pension System
Massachusetts Office of the State Treasurer
Mercy Investment Services, Inc.
Metis Global Partners LLC
MFS Investment Management
Miller/Howard Investments, Inc.
Minnesota State Board of Investment
Mirova
MIT Investment Management Company
Molpus Woodlands Group
Montgomery County Employees' Retirement System
Montrusco Bolton Investments Inc.
Moody's
Morgan Stanley
NEI Investments
Nephila Capital
Neuberger Berman
Neumeier Poma Investment Counsel LLC
New Forests Advisory Inc
New Jersey Division of Investment
New Mexico State Treasurer's Office
New York City Employees' Retirement System
New York City Office of the Comptroller
New York State Comptroller
New York State Insurance Fund
New York State Teachers' Retirement System
Nia Impact Capital
Northern Trust Asset Management
Nova Scotia Pension Services Corporation
Nuveen, the investment manager of TIAA
OPTrust
Oregon Office of the State Treasurer
Orion Infrastructure Capital
Paradice Investment Management
Parallaxes Capital Management
Park Foundation
Parnassus Investments
Pegasus Capital Advisors
Permian Global
PGIM
Pictet Group
Portico Benefits Services
Praxis Mutual Funds
Prentiss Smith & Company Inc
Presbyterian Church (USA)
Princeville Global
Progressive Investment Management
Putnam Investments
Raymond James Investment Management
Redwood Grove Capital LLC
Resolution Capital
Reynders, McVeigh Capital Management
Rhode Island Office of the General Treasurer
Ridge Creek Global
Rockefeller Brothers Fund
Rockefeller Capital Management
San Francisco Employees' Retirement System
Seamans Holdings
Seattle City Employees' Retirement System
SEB Investment Management
Segal Marco Advisors
Service Employees International Union
Seventh Generation Interfaith Coalition for Responsible Investment
Silver Lake Partners
Skoll Foundation
SKY Harbor Capital Management LLC
SOC Investment Group
State Street Global Advisors
Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Asset Management
Summit Trail Advisors
Sustainable Growth Advisers
TD Asset Management
Terra Alpha Investments
The Christopher Reynolds Foundation
The George Gund Foundation
The Jordan Company
The McKnight Foundation
The Nathan Cummings Foundation
The Rockefeller Foundation
The Rohatyn Group (TRG Management LP)
The Russell Family Foundation
The Sierra Club Foundation
The Sustainability Group at Loring, Wolcott and Coolidge
Trillium Asset Management
Trustees of Donations to the Protestant Episcopal Church
Unitarian Universalist Association
United Church of Christ - Pension Boards
United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund
Université Laval (Fiducie globale de placement UL-FUL)
University of Virginia Investment Management Company
University Pension Plan
Valo Ventures
Vancity Investment Management
Vermont Pension Investment Commission
Vontobel Asset Management, Inc.
Washington State Investment Board
Water Asset Management
Wellington Management Company LLP
Wespath Benefits and Investments
William Penn Foundation
Zevin Asset Management

Ways to Get Involved

Paris Aligned Investment Working Group

The Paris Aligned Investment Working Group provides a forum for discussion and exchange of investment practices, frameworks, and resources to support both asset owners and managers in setting and implementing investor climate action plans and net zero portfolio targets. As investors worldwide seek to align their portfolios with the goals of the Paris Agreement and determine what net zero means for investments, portfolio construction, engagement, reporting, and advocacy, this working group also helps members navigate among global initiatives.

Climate Action 100+ North America Working Group

The Climate Action 100+ North America Working Group was launched in November 2017. With more than 75 Investor Network members participating, the working group has organized investor teams to begin engagements with 33 North American focus list companies, and will be coordinating and supporting these engagements.

Land Use and Climate Working Group

The Land Use and Climate Working Group serves as a center of investor coordination and collaboration on climate and land use issues. Designed with a broad and overarching focus, it allows for multiple work streams with specific goals and objectives to protect, improve and restore natural landscapes.

Shareholder Initiative on Climate and Sustainability

The Shareholder Initiative on Climate and Sustainability works with investors seeking to engage companies on key climate, energy and sustainability issues by providing research, hosting events and tracking climate-related shareholder proposals.

Policy Working Group

The Policy Working Group works with investors to engage global, federal and state policy makers and regulators on key climate change and clean energy issues through a variety of vehicles, including direct advocacy, thought leadership and media engagement.

Carbon Asset Risk Working Group

The Carbon Asset Risk Working Group works with investors to develop strategies and tactics for engaging with oil and gas and electric power companies as they transition to a low-carbon economy.

Valuing Water Finance Initiative

Launched in August 2022, Ceres’ Valuing Water Finance Initiative (VWFI) is a global investor-led effort to engage 72 companies with a high water footprint to value and act on water as a financial risk and drive the necessary large-scale change to better protect water systems. The initiative launched with 64 founding signatories representing $9.8 trillion in assets under management. This initiative continues to grow as the private sector increasingly recognizes the water crisis's material risks.

Private Equity Working Group

Ceres' Private Equity Working Group is the largest in the world based on collective assets under management. Ceres facilitates sessions that provide General Partners (GP) and Limited Partners (LP) with the latest climate-centric and sustainable investment practices, policies, frameworks and tools to assess, manage and mitigate ESG and climate risks, adopt investment practices in alignment with the Net Zero Investment Framework, align environmental and social impacts of investments to support sustainable development, and develop and implement investor climate action plans. Ceres also co-leads the North American Chapter of the Initiative Climate International (iCI), a global, practitioner-led community of private market investors that seek to better understand and manage the risks associated with climate change. Ceres and iCI co-convene six meetings per year, and provide research, guidance, and tools for decarbonizing the PE asset class.

Banks Working Group

The Banks Working Group supports investors engaging with banks on the financial risks stemming from the climate crisis – clear downside risks that investors have a fiduciary duty to their clients to manage. Participants in the Banks Working Group engage with US and International banks to align banks’ lending, financing and investing to manage climate risks and finance the transition to a net zero economy. Ceres, along with its partners, convenes discussions with investors on engagement interests related to banks, providing sector-specific guidance and benchmark analysis of banks’ progress towards addressing climate risks and opportunities.

*Ceres’ Banks Working Group does not make investment recommendations or require investors to take any specific action, collectively or individually. All participating investors are independent fiduciaries and are solely responsible for their own investment, engagement and voting decisions.

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