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Mandatory climate reporting challenges directors: AICD

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... focus on the task ahead. The AICD guide is designed to support directors as companies shift to mandatory reporting of climate risk and opportunity, which brings an evolution as directors get comfortable with signing off on complex disclosures. "This ...

Climate risk or opportunity for insurance sector

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 5 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
Insurance leaders have reframed the challenge of climate risk as an opportunity, stating that physical risk from climate change is not the biggest challenge to insurance. Finity Consulting principal Rade Musulin and Swiss Reinsurance head of property ...

Australian companies lagging on climate action

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
... allocation of capital on delivery and particularly, based on disclosures, it doesn't seem as though the transitional climate risk is being built into capital allocation frameworks in a significant enough way." There is also lagging action on plans for ...

Exiting emissions-intensive assets may not reduce climate risk

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 28 SEP 2023  |  NEWS
... potential consequences of fossil fuel exclusion policies and that investors ensure managed decline is considered as a climate risk strategy. Companies should assess the relative merits and risks associated with emissions-intensive asset sales by investee ...

ART outlines road to net zero 2050

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 26 SEP 2023  |  NEWS
... Trust's Net Zero 2050 Roadmap takes a long-term view that aims to be pragmatic, measured and actionable, to help manage climate risk while safe-guarding and growing the retirement savings of our members to help them retire well, with confidence," ...

US regulator adopts tighter rules for ESG fund names

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 21 SEP 2023  |  NEWS
... investors put their hard-earned savings into an 'ESG' or 'fossil free' fund, they expect to reduce their climate risk and not own big oil, coal, and deforestation," said As You Sow CEO Andrew Behar. " These new rules will help provide ...

Norway's oil fund updates climate demands

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 SEP 2023  |  NEWS
... told all companies to apply the demands and will apply the policy to its own voting decisions. The oil fund's new climate risk demands are anticipated to have a substantial impact on companies around the world. According to the Sovereign Wealth Fund ...

UNSW launches Institute for Climate Risk and Response

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 SEP 2023  |  NEWS
... regulations and standards and measuring and evaluating their effectiveness with confidence. The UNSW Institute for Climate Risk & Response (ICRR) will focus on informing industry practice and policy, predicting human behaviour, and meeting regulatory ...

BlackRock, SGX, and MSCI launch US$426M Singapore climate action ETF

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 19 SEP 2023  |  NEWS
... carbon intensity and climate-related commitments. Commitments include science-based target setting, green revenues, climate risk management, and other sustainability criteria. It is the largest equity ETF launched in Singapore, with assets under management ...

How to achieve low carbon intensity in your equity portfolio

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 14 SEP 2023  |  NEWS
... said. Investors are now beginning to look beyond pure carbon emissions to other metrics, like temperature rise and climate risk. Sustainability professionals are now using measurements like Implied Temperature Rise (ITR) which compares the financed carbon ...