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APRA adds materiality to trustees' risk management declaration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... different risks, not just climate related risks, and those risk factors may be influencing institutional investors to varying degrees in their decisions as to whether they should exit those investments, and/or make new investments elsewhere, invest money ...

ClimateWorks Australia: Australia can decarbonise by 2050

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... other countries also act to reduce their emissions in line with what is needed to avoid global warming of more than two degrees, Australia can play its part while sustaining rapid economic growth," said Frank Jotzo, director of ANU Crawford School's ...

IGCC launches Perfect Storm Pension Fund video project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2014  |  NEWS
... investment portfolios, but there is still a lack of understanding of the possible impacts of containing global warming to two degrees centigrade, or even more warming, Fabian said. "The most challenging issue is still the understanding of trustees about ...

IGCC welcomes CCA draft report on emissions targets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
... was to play its part in concerted international action to limit the increase in global temperatures to no more than 2 degrees Celsius (above pre-industrial levels)," according to a statement from CCA chair Bernie Fraser. The CCA review notes that at ...

ACSI hire Gordon Hagart as new chief executive officer

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... with Greenhill & Co. in London, and also worked as an investment consultant in Zurich. He holds Bachelor's and Master's degrees in geophysics from the University of Cambridge. Outgoing CEO Byrne led ACSI through a highly successful period, and Noonan ...

Australian exposed to carbon bubble through coal resources

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... global carbon budget for coal that is necessary to achieve internationally agreed targets of limiting global warming to 2 degrees Centigrade. The report assesses the risk to coal resources based on the idea of "unburnable carbon" - a concept that only ...

GRESB hires new head of Asia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... Jones Lang LaSalle in the Netherlands, focused on identifying sustainability best of real estate assets. He holds masters degrees both in building engineering and real estate, is Member of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS) and is a LEED ...

Zoos Victoria certified carbon neutral

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... Melbourne Zoo's Butterfly House have significantly reduced the amount of gas needed to keep its temperature a constant 28 degrees. Zoos Victoria has also undertaken other activities including rainwater harvesting at Healesville's animal hospital and ...

IGCC releases reports analysing climate change impacts

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... investments in the mining and minerals, property and construction, and oil and gas sectors. The likelihood of more than two degrees of global warming in coming decades means that investors in Australian industries must consider how those companies will ...

Mercer: use responsible investment to reduce return leakage

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... and pricing externalities such as carbon emissions. "The fact is, if we are going to contain global warming below two degrees, as many governments have committed to doing, roughly half of the world's existing fossil fuel resources can't be burned," she ...