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Q&A: Pablo Berrutti, on the launch of the Altiorem research platform

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2020  |  NEWS
... taxonomy for classifying research going grown and changed as it's been applied? Pablo : We have four standards (GRI, SASB, the SDGs and Climate Bonds Initiate), and we developed our own aggregation of those and every single article is tagged with our ...

The role of finance has never been more important: RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 APR 2020  |  NEWS
... been more important in shaping the global economic response to global issues captured by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), climate change, and the coronavirus crisis. The Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA) held a virtual conference ...

Emerging markets present opportunities for impact investing: 57 Stars

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2020  |  NEWS
... transaction. "One of the benefits of latest catalogue of IRIS is that the metrics align with the [Sustainable Development Goals] SDGs," Balit said. "A lot of the folks we're talking to are interested in understanding how their investments are aligned ...

Investing for positive environment impact, financial return: First Sentier

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... renewable energy. First Sentier's Sustainable Listed Infrastructure has identified relevant Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that link to that thesis. "We think about the key SDGs that infrastructure can offer," Myatt said. "One of the largest ones ...

Global green bond market continues to grow, expand: J.P. Morgan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... sustainability bonds, it's appreciating quite impressively." Going forward, Ceci thinks there will be more issuance around the SDGs and is looking to vehicles to mitigate the transition to a low-carbon economy as themes for 2020. "The other consideration ...

CEFC to provide finance for Bank Australia green home loan program

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... issued a three-year, $125 million sustainability bond linked to three of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It was not only Bank Australia's first bond, but also the first time a customer-owned bank in Australia has issued a sustainability ...

IFC expands EDGE program to include BNP Paribas ClimateSeed program

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... said. Building developers can choose from over 30 projects available on the ClimateSeed platform by project location, type or SDGs targeted. IFC EDGE (Excellence in Design for Greater Efficiencies) is an IFC online platform, a green building standard ...

ASFI identifies six critical challenges for sustainable finance roadmap

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2019  |  NEWS
... be able to properly ply our role in contributing capital towards sustainability outcomes, towards the Paris Agreement and SDGs, we need to understand how to value things that traditionally haven't been valued very well. We need some consistent and comparable ...

Integrating ESG essential to infrastructure portfolio: First Sentier Investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2019  |  NEWS
... We're keen, we review every asset in the portfolio twice a year, in great detail." This focus on stewardship, ESG and the SDGs leads to activities such as encouraging apprenticeships, Mills pointed out. "One of our action focuses is around apprenticeships ...

TCorp issues record-breaking $1.8bn Sustainability Bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 NOV 2019  |  NEWS
... Newcastle Light Rail and Lower South Creek Treatment Programme. The NSW Sustainability Bond Framework is aligned to the UN SDGs, 2018 ICMA Green Bond Principles, Social Bond Principles and Sustainability Bond Guidelines. The Sustainability Bond Framework ...