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Climate Bonds Initiative releases Water Criteria Phase 2 Consultation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 OCT 2017  |  NEWS
... Climate Bonds Standard "which provides investors with a verifiable, science-based screening process to evaluate bond investments bringing climate mitigation, vulnerability assessment and adaptation planning to the fixed income investment space," according ...

New Forests purchases timberland estate in northern California

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 OCT 2017  |  NEWS
... mitigation, Brand said. Globally, New Forests manages more than 2 million acres of forestry, land, and conservation investments, including more than 450,000 acres of forest carbon projects for third-party landowners in the continental US and Alaska ...

IGCC annual conference discusses managing climate change risk, solutions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 OCT 2017  |  NEWS
... session discussing low carbon tools for the transition, Alexis Cheang: Senior Responsible Investment Consultant, Mercer Investments, noted that Mercer had identified 10 funds with strategies either in low carbon, low-Risk, or sustainable investing approaches ...

CEFC, Right Click Capital invest in Redback Technologies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 OCT 2017  |  NEWS
... developing innovative technologies like Redback's that mean households and businesses get the most benefit from these investments. We want to see home and business energy management systems and battery storage solutions become commonplace in Australia ...

Climate Bonds Initiative releases Marine Renewable Energy Criteria

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 OCT 2017  |  NEWS
... Council is pleased that Climate Bonds Initiative convened the development of Marine Renewable Energy Criteria for green investments," said Paul Holthus, World Ocean Council (WOC) and industry working group member. "Scaling up marine renewable energy ...

Strong uptick in participation in second GRESB Infrastructure Assessment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 SEP 2017  |  NEWS
... assets collect ESG data, "reporting on ESG performance is not yet common practice," and that while ESG screening of pre-investments is increasing, "tracking of actual ESG performance is still not widely implemented."

Social Ventures Australia launches Diversified Impact Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 SEP 2017  |  NEWS
... SVA The SVA Diversified Impact Fund is seeking to raise $10 to $15 million to fund a diversified portfolio of impact investments. The fund will also provide 20% downside protection funded by philanthropists, including Joseph Skrzynski, Geoff Wilson and ...

IGCC survey finds institutional investors seeking to increase low-carbon investments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 SEP 2017  |  NEWS
... incredibly strong appetite to increase investment and their desire to find a way to increase investment to low carbon investments," said Emma Herd, chief executive officer of the Investor Group on Climate Change. "We certainly didn't expect to have such ...

Climate-aligned bond universe jumps to US$895 billion: Climate Bonds Initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 SEP 2017  |  NEWS
... working much more closely with cities to fund climate resilient infrastructure. They must increasingly align their investments with country climate plans and build economic resilience to deal with the climate impacts to come. This also means increasing ...

Australian Ethical Investment reports annual profit of $2.9 million

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 SEP 2017  |  NEWS
... looking for opportunities," he said. "We're hoping to put in, start the foundation process with probably three types of investments - supporting a social enterprise with working capital, which we think is a real gap in the market, probably a social benefit ...