Responsible Finance and Banking
As part of our 2030 Net Zero target, we think it’s essential that our investments support the decarbonisation agenda.
In addition to our Fossil Free Pledge, we’ve developed a Responsible Investment Policy, which prevents us from investing in companies with corporate behaviour that leads to "Environmental Damage or Climate Change", which excludes investment in the fossil fuel industry.
To ensure this is upheld, we have in place a Financial Portfolio Committee, which reports to the Board of Governors.
To ensure transparency and share best practice, we publish an annual report on our investments, which measures ESG performance.
Documents and Policies outlining how our finance system works, and our commitment responsible finance can be found below:
- Responsible Investment Policy
- Bath Spa University’s Financial Statements Page
- The Annual List of Investments
- A list of committee members that oversee investments can be found in the Finance and Infrastructure Committee Terms of Reference
- Meeting minutes can be found in the Board of Governors’ Documents archive list
- Bath Spa University’s Fossil Free Pledge 2020