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Accelerating Progress Toward a Lower-Carbon Future Accelerating progress toward a lower-carbon future CDP S&P 500 Climate Change Report 2012 On behalf of 655 investors with assets of US$ 78 trillion Report written for Carbon Disclosure Project [email protected] Carbon Disclosure 6 W 48th Street, 10th Floor +1 212 378 2086 Project by: New York, NY 10036 www.cdproject.net 1 CDP Investor Members 2012 Members ABRAPP Mongeral Aegon Seguros e Aegon Previdência S/A CDP works with investors AKBANK T.A.Ş. Morgan Stanley globally to advance the Allianz Global Investors National Australia Bank investment opportunities Aviva Investors NEI Investments and reduce the risks posed AXA Group Neuberger Berman by climate change by Bank of America Merrill Newton Investment asking almost 6,000 of the Lynch Management Ltd world’s largest companies Bendigo and Adelaide Bank Nordea Investment to report on their climate Blackrock Management change strategies, GHG BP Investment Management Norges Bank Investment emissions and energy California Public Employees Management use in the standardized Retirement System - PFA Pension Investor CDP format. To CalPERS Robeco learn more about CDP’s California State Teachers Rockefeller & Co. member offering and Retirement Fund - CalSTRS SAM Group becoming a member, Calvert Asset Management Sampension KP please contact us or Company Livsforsikring A/S visit the CDP Investor Catholic Super Schroders Member section at CCLA Scottish Widows Investment www.cdproject.net/ Daiwa Asset Management Partnership investormembers Co. Ltd. SEB Generation Investment Sompo Japan Insurance Inc Management Standard Chartered HSBC Holdings TD Asset Management Inc. Legg Mason and TDAM USA Inc. London Pension Fund The RBS Group Authority The Wellcome Trust 1 CDP INVESTOR Signatories & ASSETS 2 2012 SignatorY (US$ TRILLION) AGAINST TIME INVESTOR BREAKDOWN • Investor CDP Signatories 259 Asset Managers • Investor CDP Signatory Assets 220 Asset Owners 143 Banks 35 95 155 225 315 385 475 534 551 655 33 Insurance 4.5 10 21 31 41 57 55 64 71 78 13 Other 700 80 600 70 60 500 50 400 40 Trillions) Signatories 300 of 30 (US$ 200 20 Assets Number 100 10 0 0 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2 39+33224+2+t Signatories CDP Signatory Investors 2012 Basler Kantonalbank Daiwa Asset Management Co. Ltd. 655 financial institutions with Bâtirente Daiwa Securities Group Inc. assets of US$78 trillion were Baumann and Partners S.A. 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