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Companies, investors assessing Sustainable Development Goals

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2016  |  NEWS
... education that needs to be done in the Australian market." Australian asset owners are interested in seeing how the adaptation of the SDGs might impact on their investments and investment processes, but it will require an adaptation of the SDGs' taxonomy ...

Cities provide essential collaboration: C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2016  |  NEWS
... and the clever proposals like having the liens for those retrofits remain with the building. There's also work on the adaptation front. Here, climate change is hitting pretty rapidly and potentially rather dramatically, the efforts to counteract with ...

Paris Agreement refers to mitigation co-benefits

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2015  |  NEWS
... adopted at the COP 21 United Nations Climate Change Conference, there is reference to the concept that co-benefits of adaptation efforts can contribute to mitigation, which experts believe can open new pathways for projects conducted by Indigenous groups ...

Mercer speaks on managing future risks, climate change

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2015  |  NEWS
... with the forthcoming Paris Climate Summit (COP21) where there is a clear focus on engaging private finance to meet the adaptation and mitigation needs to keep the world on a capped path to a 2 degree limit on warming. "For 20 years, governments have ...

CDP publishes Aust/NZ climate leaders report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2015  |  NEWS
... The climate performance band assesses the level of action, as reported by the company, on climate change mitigation, adaptation and transparency, and is presented as a band from A-E, with an A being the highest. Climate change disclosures improved this ...

ACSI governance guidelines increase push for board diversity

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2015  |  NEWS
The Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI) is further embedding its policy on gender diversity on ASX-listed boards by considering recommending against the re-election of directors of companies which perform poorly on that measure. Louise ...

Investor groups publish climate change investment guide

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2015  |  NEWS
... exposure in portfolios, along with opportunities to invest in low carbon, clean energy and energy efficient assets, [and] adaptation investment actions - actions to reduce the vulnerability of existing assets to the physical impacts of climate change ...

Mirvac reports on first year of new sustainability strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
... also identified 19 material issues, from waste, water and energy to materials, supplier governance, future cities and adaptation, affordability and social impact. In the 2013-2014 sustainability report, the company sets shorter term and longer term dates ...

Climate Bond Standard to establish water investment criteria

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
... representatives from organisations including the OECD, Asia Development Bank, Imperial College London, Alliance for Global Water Adaptation (AGWA), D.C. Water, Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI). The working ...

Investors commit to growing green bond market

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... Bonds CEO. "The response to climate change also requires substantial investments in areas such as water infrastructure; adaptation measures for communities; and the climate-proofing of existing infrastructure. It requires a rapid transition to a low-carbon ...