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Federated Hermes launches climate change high yield credit strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 9 SEP 2021  |  NEWS
... Tina Rönnholm, portfolio manager responsible for external High Yield investments at AP1. "Having divested from fossil fuels throughout our portfolio last year, our ambition now and going forward is to contribute to getting absolute emissions down ...

Greenwashing a challenge to sustainable investing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 26 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
A majority of Australian investors believe engaging on climate change or use of fossil fuels are the most important stewardship topics, but also believe greenwashing is a major challenge, according to Schroders. Schroders has released its latest Institutional ...

Cultural factors influence ESG approaches: Morgan Stanley Investment Management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 19 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... extension of a general focus on labour within the business context." When speaking with Australian investors about fossil fuels, there are questions about global energy transition versus divestment, Bottega noted. Morgan Stanley Investment Management ...

Banks' role in global decarbonisation under spotlight

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 12 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... reliability. Further, they are looking for assurances that banks are transitioning away from lending activities to fossil fuels like coal. "Coal would be the instant area that would stand out," Butters said. "Many banks across the world are beginning ...

Carbon capture and storage questioned after Chevron result

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
... climate goals." The oil and gas industry has emphasised CCS and CCUS as technological solutions to allow further use of fossil fuels while meeting the aims of the Paris Agreement to contain global warming to less than 2 degrees C. In a session at the ...

Alphinity launches SDG-aligned fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
... tobacco and controversial weapons, as well as companies that generate more than 5% of revenue from the production of fossil fuels, controversial fuels such as uranium, gold mining where gold is the primary purpose of the mine, factory farming, live exports ...

Cooper Energy announces carbon neutral certification

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 15 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
... recently, especially in the E&P segment, announcing net zero for Scope 1+2 only or announcing carbon neutral cargoes of fossil fuels," Baker said. "Based on the work that we have been doing for our Net Zero Tracker and Carbon Targets Scorecard, a company ...

Role of oil and gas in net zero emission future

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUN 2021  |  NEWS
... reliable energy sources is key to development for many countries building stable and prosperous economies, and that fossil fuels have a role to play in that economic transition as do technologies like CCUS. Nunan agreed. "Both CCS and hydrogen are important ...

Oil and gas industry debate green hydrogen future

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUN 2021  |  NEWS
... of 10 June, according to AEMO. The second problem is scaling hydrogen up to serve as an adequate replacement for fossil fuels like LNG, and May raised the issue that building hydrogen generation capacity might challenge social license to operate due ...

New fossil fuel exploration acreage released

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUN 2021  |  NEWS
... and gas exploration, at a time when energy experts, investors, and our strategic allies are all moving away from fossil fuels, goes against all scientific and economic reason." The Climate Council said it recommends, based on research, that Australia ...