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Calculating the shorter, longer-term cost of bushfire

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... academics and economists need to consider this." Natural disasters such as this season's bushfires will be impacted by climate change, which means that future modelling must include these risks. "As global temps rise, you would see particularly southern ...

BlackRock joins Climate Action 100+ investor initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... global investor initiative that engages with the world's largest corporate greenhouse gas emitters on action on climate change. Emma Herd, chief executive officer of the Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC) BlackRock is the world's largest asset manager ...

Sydney Stock Exchange announces new CEO, first listings, ESG focus

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 DEC 2019  |  NEWS
... application," Go said. "We don't try and take too strong a hand with it, but what we look to take a broad view of climate change [considerations], human rights, whether they have strong corporate governance. With regards to environmental and social issues ...

Climate-related policies "inevitable", but likely to be disorderly: IPR

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2019  |  NEWS
... what it means for the Australian financial sector. There are few signals that governments will act forcefully on climate change in the next 2 years, Fulton said. However, this can't persist, and he identified 2023-25 as the critical period. "It's inevitable ...

Directors urged to exercise legal duties over climate risk as context evolves

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2019  |  NEWS
This week, Exxon was cleared over charges it had misled shareholders over the cost of climate change, but a legal expert cautioned that directors should not interpret too much from the decision. Sarah Barker, head of climate risk governance at Minter ...

Integrating ESG essential to infrastructure portfolio: First Sentier Investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2019  |  NEWS
... transformers which have been raised to three, four 4 metres above ground. Increasingly, those mitigation measures against climate change, interruptions, have become very important. That's what the customers expect, the gov't expects, your license to ...

Superannuation funds that invest responsibly outperform: RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2019  |  NEWS
... opposed to regulatory push in these areas." The report also finds that the number of funds systematically considering climate change at board meetings has nearly doubled from 2018 to 10, representing 18% of the research universe. Eight funds referenced ...

Investing in insurance linked securities, integrating climate risk: Amundi

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2019  |  NEWS
... bushfires in New South Wales and California, hurricanes and cyclones, their frequency and intensity, and the impacts of climate change have all been headline news, but Amundi believes there is a long-term investment thesis. "The investment itself is ...

GRI launches tax reporting standard for comprehensive disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2019  |  NEWS
... International, the global trade union federation. "We cannot tackle pressing global issues like poverty reduction, climate change and implementation of Sustainable Development Goals without a fair and adequate tax system. "There is growing anger around ...

QBE, Suncorp among global insurers exiting coal: Unfriend Coal

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 3 DEC 2019  |  NEWS
... should see an even faster shift away from coal." Insuring Coal No More: The 2019 Scorecard on Insurance, Coal and Climate Change is published by 13 civil society organisations from 10 countries. The scorecard highlights laggards as well as leaders. "You ...