Please provide the following information in relation to RBWM management of pension fund climate risk, & information & advice on same provided by external investment consultants including (but not limited to) Aon, Mercer, Allenbridge Epic and Hymans Robertson.
1) Please provide emails & correspondence between council employees - RBWM finance + pension fund mgmt), procurement, (& members on pension fund committee) & external investment consultants on climate risk between 2018 and 2023
2) Please confirm if specific advice or information on climate risk has been sought by RBWM and received from Mercer, or other investment consultants? - If so please provide copies of this information. (key search terms include "climate risk", & "climate scenario analysis")
3) Please provide the following data points in MS Excel format in relation to each external climate risk analyses undertaken on the councils investment portfolio, noting the date/ year + provider of each analysis:
i) Warming scenarios applied, i.e 2degC, 3degC, 4,degC, 5degC, 6degC & year in which it is suggested each warming threshold considered by the scenarios will be reached?
ii) Projected gains or losses for the portfolio &/or GDP activity for each scenario/year assessed
iii) Specifics of any change(s) to asset portfolio allocation recommended by the consultants to reduce the risk of future financial losses and/or to reduce financed emissions across the portfolio.