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ESG part of financial sustainability of infrastructure: ClearBridge

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... growth in renewables. On the negative side, environmental factors also have negative implications, such as looking at oil and gas projections around the world." ClearBridge noted that as the world transitions from higher-carbon-emitting forms of energy ...

Aviva Investors puts companies on notice over climate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... into clear and robust action over the next three to five years." The engagement programme includes companies from the oil and gas, metals and mining and utilities sectors, which Aviva Investors notes "substantially contribute to total global carbon emissions." ...

Translating net zero goals into near-term decisions: Robeco

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... means a whole piece of work around understanding sector decarbonisation pathways, how should sectors such as steel, oil and gas, and the automotive industry decarbonise in terms of carbon intensity of products, per unit of cement or steel. What kind ...

Water, water risk everywhere: DWS

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 7 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... risks, and low risks within a portfolio," Lewis said. "With climate risk, you always get red flags popping up for oil and gas, utilities, metals and miners, the risks, the heat maps are like dark reds. What's interesting with water risk and social ...

Climate, governance and supply chain top 2021 priorities: BofA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 7 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... respondents believe that they believe certain sectors offer bigger opportunities for improvement on ESG grounds - oil and gas (49%), utilities (44%), consumer discretionary (34%) and materials (31%). There was a relative shift away from social issues ...

Long short strategies used in environmental equities fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... they treat every sector the same - you find the distribution of names within each sector - which ones are the good oil and gas companies, which ones are the based ones, and they lose sight of making common sense judgements about what they're doing. You ...

ESG funds continue strong performance: Rainmaker

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 3 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... funds look at, and we don't think that defines investment risk." Many ESG options screen out fossil fuels, and oil and gas stocks have underperformed in 2020 due to a combination of factors including the COVID-19 pandemic. But Macri noted that Australian ...

Aviva Investors launches climate transition equity fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... business models for a warmer, low-carbon world. It avoids stocks exposed to coal, unconventional fossil fuels, Arctic oil and gas production or thermal coal electricity generation, and limits exposure to those producing oil and gas or gas-fired power ...

AustralianSuper backs net-zero emissions

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... companies should emit new greenhouse gas as low as possible, which means rapidly phasing out fossil fuels such as coal, oil and gas, and transition to renewable energy, the Climate Council said. IFM Investors and Cbus are some organisations that have ...

Considering potential ESG implications of the US election

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... building before more radical policies take root, we should avoid outright bets, for example, on renewables or the oil and gas sector." If Joe Biden were to win the election, he has committed to bringing the US back into the Paris Climate Agreement, an ...