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First State Super joins global call for SDG focus to post-COVID recovery

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... externalities to "accelerate private and public sector collaboration to develop and approve models that price-in carbon emissions and other ways to incentivise sustainable business practices."

State Street Global Advisors launch Climate ESG International Equity Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... those actively adapting to global warming and other environmental changes." The fund will target a reduction in carbon emissions and brown revenues while increasing exposure to more sustainable companies generating green revenues from low-carbon technology ...

Aviva Investors identifies megatrends representing market failures

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... The way governments correct market failure is via regulation, standards, fiscal measures, and market mechanisms like emissions trading schemes. This improves the incentives and aligns them with long term sustainable development." The 17 goals of the ...

Future Business Council to close, join BCSD Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... Action Statement in 2019 where its members committed to drive the necessary structural transformation needed to ensure emissions reach net zero in a timeframe supporting achievement of the Paris Agreement goals of limiting temperature rise to well below ...

Climate action by regulators deferred, not denied: MinterEllison

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... business strategy a central pillar of their corporate rebuilding and recovery plans, with a measurable pathway to net zero emissions. The report also pointed out that regulatory updates applying to climate risk disclosure still stand. They pointed up ...

AMP Capital regards long term impacts of COVID-19, climate change

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... Woodland, head of sustainable investment, AMP Capital AMP Capital noted that there has been a short-term drop in carbon emissions during the pandemic, but the shutdown of economic activity that caused that drop is not a sustainable solution. "There are ...

IFM Investors report carbon emission reduction in Australian infrastructure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
IFM investors is reporting a nearly 8% reduction in carbon emissions across its Australian infrastructure portfolio in the 2018/2018 financial year. Chris Newton, head of responsible investing at IFM Investors. The IFM Investors' FY 2019 Australian ...

More than a third of investors back Rio Tinto climate resolution

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... meeting. Nearly 37% of investors voted for the resolution prepared by Market Forces, which called on Rio Tinto to set clear emissions targets including Scope 3 emissions, which are those generated by the use of products. That 37% vote is more than six ...

CEFC to oversee $300m Advancing Hydrogen Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... electrolysis. "Hydrogen has the potential to make a substantial contribution to our clean energy transition, reducing emissions across the economy while underpinning the development of an important domestic and export industry," said Ian Learmonth, CEFC ...

Woodside AGM climate resolution receives majority support

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... Woodside Petroleum Limited. The AGM was held 30 April in Perth. Resolution 4(b) asked the company to "to set and disclose emissions reduction targets across its operations (scope 1 and 2) and the use of its products (scope 3), disclose how its exploration ...