Systems-Level Stewardship: Investor Tools

An InfluenceMap Fact Sheet

August 2026

As investors increasingly emphasize systems-level stewardship as a means of protecting long-term portfolio returns and mitigating systemic risk from climate change, InfluenceMap outlines key avenues of policy influence that asset managers can use to shape science-aligned climate policy and best practice examples of each.

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