This progress note announces the countries that will be assessed by ASCOR in 2024 and provides the project’s timeline for this year.
Assessing Sovereign Climate-related Opportunities and Risks (ASCOR) is a project led by asset owners, asset managers and investor networks to develop a publicly available and independent tool that assesses countries on climate change. The ASCOR tool was designed as a framework of indicators to enable transparent country assessments that present the progress made by governments on managing the low-carbon transition and the impacts of climate change. ASCOR aims to inform, support and facilitate investors’ decision-making on sovereign bonds and enable a more explicit consideration of climate change.
In 2023, following a public consultation, the Transition Pathway Initiative Centre (TPI Centre) published a
methodology note describing the ASCOR framework and launched the
ASCOR tool including the first assessments of 25 countries. The launch of the tool was followed by an inaugural
webinar in early 2024.
This progress note announces the countries that will be assessed in 2024 alongside the associated sovereign index coverage, and provides an outline of the ASCOR project’s timeline of activities in 2024.
