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Combet calls for return of carbon pricing policy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2014  |  NEWS
Former Climate Change Minister Greg Combet predicted that Abbott government policy on greenhouse gas emissions reduction will not survive, telling an audience of superannuation funds and funds managers that the investment industry has a role to play ...

RIAA panel discusses tackling ESG duties, opportunities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
... in responsible investment, if you think it's a load of dirty hippie rubbish, particularly when we're looking at climate change, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter what I think, it doesn't matter what trustees think. The fact is, objectively, we can ...

Mirvac reports on first year of new sustainability strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
... rising bills for the past five years. Water bills are also starting to rise, albeit more slowly. The impacts of climate change, etc. we are going to feel the impacts of that on our facilities as well. If we can get to a point where we achieve net positive ...

Montreal Carbon Pledge a building block: Cbus' Atkin

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
... for signatories to the UN-supported Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) to demonstrate the impact that climate change will have on investments and strategies, according to David Atkin, Cbus CEO and Oceania representative to the PRI Advisory Council ...

Westpac increases lending to cleantech, enviro services

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
... lending to the natural resources and CleanTech and environmental services sectors. Westpac has also updated its climate change and environmental position statement and 2017 statement. "Emma Herd, our director, emissions and environment at Westpac Institutional ...

Investors apply ethical screens to cash management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
... "It's one more piece of our sustainability credentials, but we have lots of pieces - it's not a stand-alone push on climate change," he said. "It gives the marketplace a clear view of how we do things." Although Future Super has brought new attention ...

Climate Bond Standard to establish water investment criteria

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
... "While it may be tempting to define every water project as 'green', water investments that don't take into account climate change, with, for example, its increased volatility of rainfall - dumps and droughts - will come to be seen as both higher risk ...

CDSB publishes final draft of expanded framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
... draft that was released earlier this year. The current CDSB reporting framework focuses on the management view of climate change-related risks and opportunities and greenhouse gas emissions. The new draft framework also covers fossil fuels, water stewardship ...

Panel discusses fossil fuel divestment for super funds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... exerting more pressure on institutional investors to be more transparent about the ways in which they are addressing climate change," Salvatico said. "In general there are just better tools and data available today, and that is a big change, because ...

Direct Action Plan, Emissions Reduction Fund approved

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... There were several changed to the final legislation that differed from the propsed legislation, said Elisa de Wit, climate change partner at Norton Rose Fulbright. "The contract period for ERF periods has been extended from 5 to 7 with the possibility ...