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Analysis: climate change, Australia and the fierce urgency of now

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... investors to deliver meaningful change that delivers more sustainable, long-term practices in companies that require transition to the new, post-climate change economy." Investors such as superannuation funds are under pressure. "The pressure is coming ...

Companies that manage ESG issues "more resilient": Saturna Capital

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... fossil fuel free," Klimo said. "That was easy to implement, and the ESG integration, it wasn't even an evolution or a transition or a change, it was really not anything that required anything at all apart from divesting from a few fossil fuel investments. ...

Australian execs see impacts of, responsibility for climate change: Deloitte

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 21 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... expects that those technologies that impact will shape outcomes at faster than a linear rate. "When people talk about the transition of the Australian economy, they talk as if technology improves in a linear way," Hillard said. "If you look at assumptions ...

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

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... 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 is transition - how do we define transition ...

Calculating the shorter, longer-term cost of bushfire

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
Economists have begun to count the costs of bushfires throughout southern Australia, identifying that the agriculture, tourism, retail and construction sectors will see negative impacts, but also saying that the worst impacts will be "indirect." Carlos ...

BlackRock joins Climate Action 100+ investor initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... Herd said. "We need deeper and more urgent action from those companies who hold the key to making the zero emissions transition that will de-risk our economies and communities from climate change. This signal from the world's largest asset manager that ...

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

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2019  |  NEWS
... Conference, Towards a Resilient and Sustainable Economy this week in Melbourne, Mark Fulton, founding partner of Energy Transition Advisors (ETA), outlined the assumptions underpinning the forecast and what it means for the Australian financial sector. ...

QBE, Suncorp among global insurers exiting coal: Unfriend Coal

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 3 DEC 2019  |  NEWS
... taken action on new coal. Most of them completely exclude support for new coal, a few have geographic loopholes or transition periods, but as a kind of general principle that's accepted, that's embedded in all policies. Only the real leaders are also ...

Analysis: too big to be sustainable?

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2019  |  NEWS
... recommendations of the Taskforce on Climate-related Disclosures (TCFD). It has, in past, issued climate bonds to finance the transition to a low-carbon economy. These are all activities that have partially played into Westpac's sustainability ratings. ...

CEFC, ARENA commit up to $58m for Hornsdale Power Reserve

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 21 NOV 2019  |  NEWS
The Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) and the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) are committing up to $58 million for a 50% expansion of the Hornsdale Power Reserve in South Australia, the world's largest grid-scale battery. The Hornsdale ...