总部位于波士顿的州街拥有约4万亿美元的资产，是全球三个最大的金融服务提供商之一，是美国第二大的持续运营的银行。
像许多领先的资产经理一样，州街也接受公众承诺将其投资组合投资于金融工具（从指数资金到债券及其他地区），它认为，到2040年，经济正在帮助经济发展到净零。投资者，该公司采取积极的方法来实现这一承诺。一个例证是一个承诺5月份公开以确保（除其他事项外）在2030年到2030年，在州街投资组合中有90％的资金排放为“净为零，与零零途径保持一致，或直接或集体参与和管理措施的主题”。
该公司针对这一目的的战略是由于其参与旨在加速向零净经济的高调行业联盟的参与而告知的净零资产管理者倡议和格拉斯哥金融联盟净零。更重要的是，州街主席兼首席执行官罗恩·奥汉利（Ron O’Hanley）领导可持续市场倡议旨在确定机构投资者将资本扩展到可持续投资（包括气候缓解和适应项目）的重新分配的方法，旨在确定机构投资者将资本重新分配扩展的方法。他还参加包容性资本主义理事会，专注于确保向清洁经济的过渡是公正和公平的。
这条结局的目的是：州街及其首席执行官不在场外。
在主题演讲中Greenfin 22奥汉利（O’Hanley）在6月下旬说，他认为州街作为资产经理最重要的角色之一是确保公司受到“独立，强大，有效”的董事会的监督。他说，在过去的10到15年中，州街对投资管理发挥了积极作用，近年来，这一承诺加深了支持其环境，社会和治理（ESG）战略。
When asked for an example of how this practice is yielding progress, O’Hanley pointed to an unnamed oil "major" that faced a shareholder proposal last year related to disclosing its emissions of methane — a potent super-polluting greenhouse gas that often leaks from oil and natural gas production systems and pipelines. After discussions with State Street and other investors, the company’s management supported the proposal moving forward. “To me, that is evidence that the stewardship is working, because ultimately, it doesn’t help to be confrontational all the time,” O’Hanley said during GreenFin 22. "You need to do it sometimes, but ultimately management needs to manage companies, boards need to oversee companies, and we need to be there to move along in a way that is useful to the shareholders."
“撤资非常诱人”
因此，奥汉利持怀疑态度，即由于金融服务公司将其投资组合指向净零，撤资将是正确的行动方案，尤其是在此过程中私下的公司时。他说：“如果您出售[资产]，就会有一个买家。”“最重要的是，现在您没有发言权。您没有能力作为所有者的影响。”
取而代之的是，奥汉利建议金融部门更积极地利用其资本来帮助高排放部门投资于支持过渡的技术和解决方案。
他说：“最终，脱碳将不得不在高碳发射器中进行。”"So, divestment doesn’t accomplish anything. In fact, investment may be what’s required. It may be, in fact it’s highly likely, that many of these companies are going to need more capital to actually get to the decarbonized state that we all desire. … The path from brown to green 1) is going to take some time and 2) is going to need to pass through light brown before it gets to green because it’s not going to happen overnight."
Reflecting on his work on the Sustainable Markets Initiative, orchestrated by the Prince of Wales, O’Hanley pointed to the role of public-private partnerships in supporting investments in sustainable infrastructure — particularly in emerging markets, which could benefit from renewable energy infrastructure rather than coal-fired power plants. For example, multilateral development banks can step in to assume currency or political capital risks that money managers and pension funds are unable to carry, he said. "If you can take that risk out of the equation, it opens things up to more capital."
第一个“真正的全球问题”
O’Hanley说，在新兴市场上的投资对于支持正义过渡至关重要，他们应该受到更多关注。他说：“如果您考虑脱碳，如果您考虑到零净的途径，我会认为这是世界面临的第一个真正的全球问题。”“例如，美国没有比较的优势，例如，印度也没有。”因此，State Street积极参与其投资组合，以了解他们在开展业务的地理位置上是否采取行动支持净零过渡的原则。
当被问及他对宏观经济状况如何影响过渡的看法时，奥汉利反映出高通货膨胀和乌克兰战争提醒人们，净零净值将是一项多年，多年的旅程，其中将包括许多潜在的障碍和弯路。
"You can have the best plans in the world — and we need to do more planning, we need to as a society be bringing together decarbonization plans with energy policy; we talk about these as if they are separate things," O’Hanley observed. "But it’s also a reminder that stuff will happen over time. And that the answer is not to say, ‘Well we can’t do this anymore.’ [The answer is] ‘All right, well given this and given the need to be just and how are we going to figure energy costs for those for whom this is a major portion of their income, we need to figure that out, but we can’t take our eyes off the long-term prize.’"
