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From the courtroom to the boardroom: climate change risks and remedies

LOUISE CAMENZULI, JULIA GREEN, SANDY MAK  |  THURSDAY, 16 DEC 2021  |  NEWS
... change are significant. Apart from the imposition of penalties, the resulting reputational damage could be debilitating, and impact the ability to secure financing or result in the withdrawal of capital. For company directors, individual liability under ...

Treasury Wine Estates inks sustainability linked loan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 16 DEC 2021  |  NEWS
... its sustainability agenda with its financing strategy, Treasury Wine Estates deepens its commitment to having a positive impact across key Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) metrics. The SLL announcement comes as part of TWE's commitment to sustainability ...

SGX mandates TCFD, diversity reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 16 DEC 2021  |  NEWS
... assets, extend financing, and price risks. These factors make climate reporting most urgent for industries with the biggest impact." Also effective January 2022, SGX-listed entities will have to set a board diversity policy that addresses "gender, skill ...

Integrating just transitions into climate calculations: Mercer

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 16 DEC 2021  |  NEWS
... environmental and the social impacts," particularly in the way that decisions around decarbonising companies and communities will impact on people. "Investors are much clearer about what needs to happen with decarbonisation and net zero, but it's ...

Evolution Mining commits to net zero

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 13 DEC 2021  |  NEWS
... understanding this space, what it means to us, what's material to us and how we want to position ourselves to have the biggest impact has been achieved," he said. "The future is around net zero and decarbonisation, what our medium and long term targets ...

Property manager buys nearly 100,000 carbon credits for offsetting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 9 DEC 2021  |  NEWS
... extended the ACCU transaction to two years upfront (FY21 and FY22). "We have been committed to the whole-of-investment impact that ISPT has, and extending to emissions not within our operational control has been a necessary part of our program, [and ...

Bringing a human rights lens to climate risk considerations

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 9 DEC 2021  |  NEWS
... management. "We are inextricably linked in the way we live on the planet," said KPMG director, human rights and social impact Meg Brodie. "The idea that we have environmental impacts and then we have impacts on people becomes a false dichotomy. In the ...

COP26 outcomes means increased focus on physical risk: PGIM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 9 DEC 2021  |  NEWS
... "That's really important, because when we're thinking about climate risks and other ESG risks, we can see that risk and impact aren't always the same thing." A focus on risk alone may see an investment go ahead, if the risk is properly compensated. This ...

Vontobel to assess biodiversity impacts of portfolio investments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 9 DEC 2021  |  NEWS
... on biodiversity is both a risk and an opportunity. As such, the firm is seeking to measure how their portfolio companies impact on biodiversity. "For the first time, we're able to get a lay of the land of where the impacts are, by sector and by company ...

ESG overhaul for SSGA ETFs

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 3 DEC 2021  |  NEWS
... ensuring there would be no significant changes to the portfolio." As such, the changes aren't expected to significantly impact the ETFs' risk/return profiles, nor will there be any impact on cost, with all management fees to remain as they currently ...