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EY appoints new climate change and sustainability leader

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2015  |  NEWS
... time, and understand the impacts on their ability to provide returns to shareholders. This is particularly the case for carbon intensive organisations or those reliant on carbon intensive sectors, but it applies across a raft of areas including human ...

Human rights considerations part of trustee board obligations

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2015  |  NEWS
... However, while there is a burgeoning sophistication and proliferation of means to measure, assess and execute based on carbon emissions and climate change data, there are fewer tools to hand to help trustees assess human rights risks. "The question will ...

Northern Trust makes case for combining quality with ESG

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2015  |  NEWS
... "In the US, it's really more of an acknowledgment that these clients want to do something around ESG - and we group low carbon into that - but they don't know how to articulate what it is that they want to do. So they desire a ready-made solution that ...

Telstra publishes 2015 Sustainability Report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2015  |  NEWS
Telstra has valued its social and community contributions at AU$214 for the 2014/2015 year and reported reducing carbon emissions intensity by 27%, according to its sustainability report. Telstra reported an AU$4.3 billion net profit after tax, with ...

NZ Super Fund invests in View Glass

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2015  |  NEWS
... investment theme, and also include exposures to fuel cell manufacturer Bloom Energy, wind turbine developer Ogin Inc. and carbon recycling company LanzaTech. In New Zealand, the fund invests in expansion capital via investment managers Pencarrow Private ...

NZ responsible investment assets increase 10%: RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2015  |  NEWS
... which is unusual for this region, and they have investments in sustainably themed assets like renewable energy and low carbon. That seem to be the direction that the larger, more sophisticated, investors in Australia are going as well - multiple strategies ...

IGCC calls for emissions reductions targets with credible signal

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 AUG 2015  |  NEWS
... an Australian emission reduction target that "delivers a credible signal to capital in managing the transition to a low carbon economy." Emma Herd, CEO, IGCC The Australian government has set an emissions reduction target of 26-28% below 2005 levels ...

PRI active on climate change, tax avoidance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2015  |  NEWS
... doing," she said. "We've been trying through the PRI to work particularly with asset owners on signing up to the Montreal Carbon Pledge, as a means of helping asset owners understand their own carbon footprints." Pledge signatories are committing to ...

ACCR considers appeal in Commonwealth Bank case

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2015  |  NEWS
... their annual general meeting (AGM). Last year, ACCR put a resolution to CBA, requesting the bank report on the financing of carbon emissions. CBA declined to put the resolution to shareholders, and ACCR, joined by Environmental Justice Australia, challenged ...

ESG concerns a challenge for mining projects: MSCI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2015  |  NEWS
... emissions exposures, Vernon noted "The rate of disclosure is rapidly expanding from scope 1 across to scope 3. Not all carbon risks are equal, however way you want to cut it. It is similar to any other bubble theory - the main consideration for investors ...