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Climate change and public health cannot be viewed in isolation: UNGCNA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... progress made in improving public health", UNGCNA said. The recent bushfire crisis in Australia has sharpened the focus on the impact of climate change on health. "It is crucial that we begin planning for a future where climate change plays a bigger ...

MSCI launches Real Estate Climate Value-at-Risk solution for investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... to climate-related events," said Jay McNamara, head of real estate at MSCI. "Our research has shown that the potential impact for real estate investors from climate events is far reaching and spans assets and geographies. Investors could face increased ...

Climate change, unclear policy response pose investment risk: JANA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
Investment consulting firm JANA is warning investors that the impact of climate change and unclear policy response by governments pose significant risk to return. Tim Conly, head of responsible investment research, JANA JANA has commissioned a study ...

Fidelity International launches Sustainable Water and Waste Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... risk/return, relative valuation, and also target price." Fidelity International does ascribe a value to water for both return and impact purposes, and can compare company performance based on potable water used and waste water recovered. "We have calculated ...

Transformational investment needed to address systemic risk: WEF

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... better aligned and more involved. When individual universal shareholders act collaboratively, they can produce greater impact, faster; and this dynamic is driving a growing recognition of the importance of collective action by institutional asset owners," ...

Future Super measures environmental impact of portfolio

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
Future Super has released its second impact report, measuring the fund's environmental impact both in terms of fossil fuel investments avoided and renewable energy that investments have generated. Kirstin Hunter, co-founder, Future Super The report ...

Insight Investment launches proprietary ESG risk rating system

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... Insight Investment. "We don't want to identify other factors such as the opportunities, which we capture in an alternative impact rating. These are two distinct focus areas.... The way the ESG ratings work is that we take in data sets from a number of ...

Ethical approach yields investment benefits: Crescent Wealth

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... because we hold defensive and cash, which is turning in our favour. We avoid segments of the economy with a negative social impact - alcohol, tobacco, gaming, pornography, munitions, pork products. That skews the portfolio tolow-geared, tangible assets." ...

HESTA to move to net zero carbon emissions in portfolio by 2050

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
HESTA will reduce the absolute carbon emissions in its investment portfolios by 33% by 2030 and will move to net zero by 2050. Debby Blakey, CEO, HESTA The $52 billion industry superannuation fund will implement a Climate Change Transition Plan (CCTP) ...

CEFC invests $1.7 million in Australian agritech company

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... fertiliser use, this technology could also help improve soil health and increase farm value." The CEFC cited analysis of the impact of cultivation by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change suggesting that cropland soil has lost up to 60% of its ...