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Climate Disclosure Standards Board issues TCFD aligned framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2018  |  NEWS
Climate Disclosure Standards Board (CDSB) has released today an updated version of their framework, aligned with the recommendations of the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD). The framework presents links to align reporting environmental ...

Protecting impact from Greenwash - Duncan Paterson

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... assessing a mainstream equity fund's environmental and social impacts, frequently in the context of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. Impact measurement and management offers a range of exciting opportunities for fund managers to improve their ...

New Forests given award for portfolio of carbon offset projects

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... revenue from carbon offsets and wind power. "Our US business combines forestry investment analysis, carbon project development expertise, and international forest management experience with New Forests' asset management capacity as one of the largest ...

Financial Services industry has key role to play in financing the SDGs: EY

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAR 2018  |  NEWS
... financial services industry play a key role in raising, structuring and allocating funding to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), according to new research from EY. Matthew Bell, EY Oceania climate change and sustainability leader According ...

CEFC investing up to $100m in Lendlease-managed property fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAR 2018  |  NEWS
... centre of Melbourne's CBD. "A key focus of this investment is its ability to demonstrate, through the Melbourne Quarter development, how sustainability and design initiatives integrated across an entire precinct can transform the way we work and live ...

International Finance Corporation issues $300m Kangaroo social bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAR 2018  |  NEWS
... innovation and transparency to the Environment, Social and Governance bond market, unlocking additional funding for development." IFC has issued a total of eight social bonds in public and private markets across four different currencies, amounting to ...

Green Bond Pledge launched to increase use of green bond finance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAR 2018  |  NEWS
... â,¬133 million, the Climate Bonds Initiative noted. "BNP Paribas Asset Management is fully committed to supporting the development of green finance," said Gaetan Obert, head of sustainability - BNP Paribas Asset Management. "We provide guidance to ...

Eight Investment Partners launches 8IP Australian Equity Impact Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2018  |  NEWS
... within the 10 impact focus areas that 8IP has outlined, each investment is cross-referenced to the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the portfolio has covers 9 of the 17 goals.

NAB sheds light on process of issuing green RMBS

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 FEB 2018  |  NEWS
... eligible assets. We are also looking at a number of other options around SRI or transactions that meet the [Sustainable Development Goals] SDGs. The bonds we've issued have ticked some of those boxes."

ANZ prices €750 million bond linked to Sustainable Development Goals

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 FEB 2018  |  NEWS
ANZ has launched and priced its first Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) bond in the European wholesale debt capital markets. Katharine Tapley, head of sustainable finance solutions (SFS), loans and specialised finance, ANZ The bond raised â,¬750 ...