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Calix identifies six sustainability challenges impacting clients

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2019  |  NEWS
... are working on with clients. Andrew Oakley, general manager, strategy and commercial, Calix Calix named reducing CO2 emissions, creating energy, making crop protection safer, feeding the growing human population, protecting ageing infrastructure and ...

Lawsuit against ExxonMobil heightens Australian directors climate risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2018  |  NEWS
... related financial impacts on a company. To start with, the electricity sector represents only about 33% of our nation's emissions. Investors are increasingly viewing climate risk as a material financial issue, as are regulators, as mentioned, and banks ...

Sustainable Business Australia names John Hewson chair

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2018  |  NEWS
... global business community that works to find solutions to some of the big questions, such as: how to get to net zero emissions by 2050," Hewson said. "How can we help to make our cities more sustainable and liveable? And how can business lead the transition ...

40% of ASX200 fall short of the carbon reduction requirements: MSCI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 16 OCT 2018  |  NEWS
... associate, ESG Research, MSCI MSCI has analysed ASX200 company risk through the lens of direct regulatory risk under carbon emissions reduction targets. The model tested the ability of companies to transition to a carbon constrained market under three ...

40% of Chinese Coal Power Plants are Losing Money: Carbon Tracker

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 16 OCT 2018  |  NEWS
... utilisation." According to Carbon Tracker, China has over 1,000 operating coal plants, producing 127 billion tonnes of CO2 emissions over their lifetime, or 4.3 billion tonnes of CO2 emissions per year. The report found that 40% of China's coal power ...

Future Business Generation outlines Millennial climate risk concerns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2018  |  NEWS
... of screening is that screening tends to manage risk, as the first order level," he said. "That's fine, but if those emissions lay outside in the economy and there are people who want to mitigate climate change, there are other points of the portfolio ...

Australia, New Zealand real estate tops GRESB benchmark

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2018  |  NEWS
... found that more real estate companies and funds in Australia and NZ are setting internal targets for net zero carbon emissions. According to the 2018 results for the region, average like-for-like greenhouse gas emissions for the sector have decreased ...

WorldGBC launches Net Zero Carbon Buildings Commitment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2018  |  NEWS
... signatories - 12 businesses, 22 cities and four states and regions 0 have agreed to targets to eliminate operational carbon emissions from building portfolios of over 10.7 million square meters by 2030. "We are delighted at the ambition being demonstrated ...

Climate Bond Initiative identifies nearly 400 green infrastructure projects

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 AUG 2018  |  NEWS
... to muster more capital allocation to generate investment in green infrastructure to meet international mitigation and emissions commitments, according to the Climate Bonds Initiative. Sean Kidney, CEO, Climate Bonds Initiative The Climate Bonds Initiative ...

CEFC reports 39 direct commitments worth $2.3 billion in FY18

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2018  |  NEWS
... Learmonth said. "Equally important, our portfolio of investment commitments is targeting annual cuts to greenhouse gas emissions of 10.8 million tonnes of CO2-e, and lifetime cuts to greenhouse gas emissions of more than 190 million tonnes of CO2-e." ...