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Financial Impact Action Plan program to target exclusion

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2016  |  NEWS
A coalition of organisations including Good Shepherd Microfinance, EY, Centre for Social Impact (CSI), and the Australian government has launched the Financial Inclusion Action Plan (FIAP) program. FIAPs are intended to commit organisations to coordinated ...

Super funds on ESG engagement at ACSI conference

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2016  |  NEWS
Superannuation fund trustees are increasingly seeing environmental, social and governance (ESG) integration as part of the process of managing funds for members over the long term, and view engagement with invested companies as a tool in that process. ...

Materiality analysis helps define sustainability issues: GRI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2016  |  NEWS
Investors and corporations agree that materiality analysis is important to define "the most important sustainability issues," according to research from the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and RobecoSAM. GRI and RobecoSAM have published Defining What ...

Experts weigh implications of Labor's ETS proposal

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2016  |  NEWS
... they emit more than 100,000 tonnes of CO2-e. The interim ETS will impose a cap on carbon pollution to achieve the current target of ensuring that carbon emissions by 2020 are 5% lower than 2000. Liable entities emitting more than the cap will have to ...

Companies advised to stress test climate change scenarios

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 APR 2016  |  NEWS
... countries are not enough to achieve 1.5-2C caps in global warming, and in order to achieve this and a net zero emission target, countries have to make commitments and companies will also have to shift the way in which they emit and manage carbon emissions. ...

New Forests launches ESG investment performance framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2016  |  NEWS
New Forests, a private sustainable real assets investment manager, has implemented a new investment performance framework that will focus on productivity, ecosystem services, land use planning, shared prosperity, risk management, and governance. David ...

MSCI launch MSCI ACWI Sustainable Impact Index

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2016  |  NEWS
... The SDGs gave us the opportunity to offer tools to provide insight into what we define as Sustainable Impact." The SDGs target ending poverty, protecting the planet and addressing global prosperity via targets to be achieved by 2030. MSCI ESG Sustainable ...

Investors should measure climate risks: South Pole Group

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2016  |  NEWS
Investors should systematically measure climate risks for their investments as well as develop specific internal capabilities in the area of climate change, South Pole Group has recommended to the Senate Inquiry on Carbon Risk Disclosure. Max Horster ...

Moree Solar Farm signs PPA with Origin Energy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2016  |  NEWS
... consumer demand for renewable energy and helping meet Origin's obligations under the Federal Government's Renewable Energy Target," Origin noted. "The agreement is yet another Australian market first for FRV and demonstrates that stability is starting ...

Demand exceeds supply in Australian green bond market

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2016  |  NEWS
... forced certain practicalities on institutional investors. Local Government Super (LGS) has a government bond mandate with a target of 15% green bonds, but does not maintain a similar target for Australian-denominated bonds. "There's no target per se ...