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Sustainable commodities: Rethinking investment strategies for a changing climate

As climate change and the energy transition reshape global markets, commodities are gaining renewed attention as inflation hedges and portfolio diversifiers. This article introduces a climate integration framework for evaluating commodity investments through both sustainability and financial lenses.

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2026-11-30
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Investing in climate solutions across public and private markets

Collaboration between public and private market investors can be powerful. Opportunities where expertise and resources can be shared to accelerate innovation and deployment are optimal. Our experts explore how AI, geopolitics, and global policy are reshaping climate solutions across sectors.

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2026-10-14
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Transition at risk: Checking in on corporate decarbonization progress

Corporate climate transitions face ambition-execution gaps. Success requires integrating decarbonization into business strategy, focusing on emissions, pragmatic Scope 3 approaches, transparency, and credible plans. See how our experts are thinking about this.

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2026-10-14
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2024 Climate Report 

Aligned with TCFD recommendations, this report describes how we manage climate-related risks and opportunities, engage with companies on climate change, and reduce our own carbon footprint.

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2026-11-30
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Finding climate investment opportunities amid shifting US policy

We delve into the evolving landscape for climate investments in the US and explain areas of overlap between government policy, corporate commercial interests, and climate focus.

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2026-09-25
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Collaboration in practice: Climate venture capital

Greg Wasserman, Head of Private Climate Investing, highlights the importance of collaborating with Wellington’s later-stage private market investors and public market experts to better understand best practices, valuation, exit opportunities, and more.

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Climate venture capital: Innovation versus hype

Greg Wasserman, Head of Private Climate Investing, discusses the balance between innovation and hype in climate venture capital. He explores automation in agriculture and manufacturing as well as the emerging commercial applications of generative AI.

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2026-06-30
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2024 Sustainability Report

We appreciate the opportunity to share our approach to advancing sustainable practices across our investment, client, and infrastructure platforms. 

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2026-05-31
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Climate venture capital: Deployment, valuations, exits

Greg Wasserman, head of private climate investing, explores today’s normalizing valuations, encouraging IPO and M&A trends, and potentially actionable opportunities in climate venture capital.

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2026-03-31
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Geopolitics in 2025: Risks, opportunities, and deepening uncertainties

Geopolitical Strategist Thomas Mucha outlines his structural, policy, and geopolitical outlook for the year.

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2026-02-28
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Climate adaptation may cost trillions. Is your portfolio ready?

With climate adaptation and resilience spending projected to exceed mitigation spending sixfold by 2050, we believe investors should consider allocations to adaptation-aligned opportunities.

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2025-12-31
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Assessing the impact of climate resilience

Oyin Oduya and Louisa Boltz discuss the case for impact solutions focused on climate adaptation and share high-level guidelines to help overcome the associated measurement challenge.

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2025-10-02
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A blueprint for building climate-aware multi-asset portfolios

Members of our Investment Strategy & Solutions Group take a deep dive on the issues asset owners should consider when choosing climate-aware portfolio building blocks, from the evolving opportunity set to the active/passive decision.

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2026-03-31
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Private investing portfolio company interview with AMP Robotics CEO

Dr. Matanya Horowitz, CEO of AMP Robotics, highlights how the company integrates AI and robotics into the recycling industry and explores the “actionable guidance” Wellington provides on ESG and other strategic issues. 

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Why climate change matters in private markets

We explore why climate change matters in private markets, highlight the current regulatory landscape, and profile key questions to expect from public market investors.

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Is your asset allocation ready for the realities of climate change?

Our Investment Strategy Team shares key findings from the research behind their climate-aware strategic asset allocation (SAA) approach, including challenges and trade-offs that asset owners should understand.

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Designing a climate-aware strategic asset allocation

Members of our Investment Strategy Team explain how they incorporate climate metrics into their asset allocation optimization process. They also discuss implementation — the choice of specific climate-aware building blocks and strategies to express the desired asset allocation.

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2024-04-30
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Evolving impact investing for better potential outcomes
Our impact portfolio managers provide a snapshot of recent highlights and developments in impact investing.
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2022-09-30
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How a diversified approach to climate return opportunities can support decarbonisation goals
Joy Perry and Ken Baumgartner explore how a diversified approach to climate return opportunities can support decarbonisation goals.
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The full climate-investing opportunity
From devastating floods in Australia — tragically, in many of the same areas hit by fires in recent years — to wildfires in Europe and the US, widespread disasters bring into stark reality the consequences today of a changing climate. The human toll of these events has become an unfortunate yet familiar part of the news cycle, but the second-order impacts of climate change on financial markets are sometimes less well understood. Many traditional approaches to climate investing have rightly focused on these risks, but we believe both their approach and their scope are often incomplete and lacking nuance, thereby creating inefficiencies in the climate-investing landscape.
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2023-04-30
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Navigating a new tomorrow
In this video, Wellington investment professionals and prominent guests articulate the structural risks and opportunities that we believe will shape tomorrow’s investment strategies, ranging from medical innovation spurred by the global pandemic to technological breakthroughs, and ideas aimed at curbing or mitigating climate risk.
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2021 Responsible Investor USA conference: Climate investor spotlight
In this event replay from the 2021 Responsible Investor USA conference, Portfolio Manager Alan Hsu discusses how you can dynamically build a portfolio of stocks for a pragmatic net zero CO2 strategy.
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Hedging climate risk: The best defense is a good offense
Climate risks have the potential to create a long-term return drag on investment portfolios. We suggest a straightforward approach to hedging the deleterious effects of climate change.
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2023-02-28
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Decarbonization and the energy transition: The next supercycle
The low-carbon transition could be the biggest capital cycle of our lifetime, fueled by massive spending and extensive infrastructure development. We break down the investment implications.
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2022-12-31
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2022 Alternative Investment Outlook
Our 2022 Alternative Investment Outlook looks at 5 areas of focus for the coming year and explores private equity markets and ESG opportunities.
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2022-12-31
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2022 Climate Change Investing Outlook
As the effects of climate change become more difficult to ignore, we suggest focusing on adaptation, mitigation, & engagement for 2022 climate investing plans.
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2022 Climate Change Investing Outlook
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