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Ethinvest rallies support for BHP Billiton board candidate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... director of Ethinvest. "We thought that supporting his nomination would be a good way of highlighting the issue of climate change risk in a different way to the way it's been done previously, and that he was eminently qualified to take concerns around ...

Property developers advised to factor in climate change risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
Australian property developers should start factoring in climate change impacts immediately or face significant financial risk, according to Net Balance. "While the local government have understood climate risk and opportunity for some time, the property ...

VicSuper, bankmecu, Pacific Hydro join Future Economy Group

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... developed The Future Economy Group, and they say their mission is to quantify how vulnerable Victoria's economy is to climate change and resource scarcity and then to advocate for policies and actions to transition to "a strong and sustainable economy ...

UN Statistics Division releases ecosystem accounting system

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... specialized field to handle the complex technical problems that accounting for and assurance of water resources, climate change, carbon trading and whole ecosystems present." One area that will have to be overcome is how corporations can attribute their ...

Insurer Catlin Group sponsors survey of global coral reefs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... International insurer Catlin Group has sponsored a survey of the world's coral reefs to monitor and assess the effects of climate change and the damage to coral. Photo courtesy of Catlin Global Reef Record The Catlin Seaview Survey is conducting the ...

SEB, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley top climate bond underwriters

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... the climate bond space, according to the Climate Bonds Initiative, which is drawing on data from its ' Bonds and Climate Change: the state of the market in 2013 report. "BofA Merrill Lynch has been a leader in the Green Bond market since we led the first ...

NAB, Westpac leaders in 2013 CDP Global 500

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... increased since 2009, even as overall emissions of the top 500 companies have fallen, according to the CDP Global 500 Climate Change Report 2013. The report is co-written by CDP and PwC, based on climate and energy data of 389 companies listed on the ...

HSBC calls for policies to support low-carbon financing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
... to leverage private capital into low carbon sectors and to contribute to the increasing costs of adaptation to climate change. Finally, HSBC recommends mainstreaming climate into familiar channels for deploying finances at scale, and says that the bond ...

EY: Businesses need long term carbon policy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
... reluctant to make more than the minimum investment required to comply with existing legislation, said Mathew Nelson, EY climate change and sustainability leader. "There is no question that the uncertainty is making a difference in the way that companies ...

Carbon price uncertainty erodes business investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
... previously released results in which 88% of survey respondents said that Australia needs to reduce emissions to address climate change. Businesses for a Clean Economy commissioned AECOM to conduct the research. An online survey was sent to 573 businesses ...