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Sustainable Australia Fund on COVID-19 impacts, upgrade finance outlook

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2020  |  NEWS
... and businesses through a financing model to allow commercial, office, and industrial buildings to retrofit projects for energy, water and environmental sustainability. "Everyone is in survival mode at the moment, but in the medium and longer term, we ...

RIAA awards Responsible Investment Certification to Mirova fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2020  |  NEWS
... is a long-term, sustainable investor focused on major societal transitions in demographics, governance, healthcare, and energy," Watson said. "The COVID-19 pandemic has the potential to accelerate some of the longer-term trends already occurring in theses ...

ASEAN green bond issuance reaches US$7.8bn: Climate Bond Initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2020  |  NEWS
... issuance in 2019, with 55% of total issuance, up from 29% in 2018. Two thirds of proceeds are allocated to the Buildings and Energy sectors. Globally, the volume of green bond and loan issuance rose sharply by over 50%, from US$171 billion in 2018 to ...

Climate risk assessment impacts on small, mid-cap portfolios: Fairlight AM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2020  |  NEWS
... complete disclosure would relate to emissions associated with manufacturing and transporting cars to dealers, along with energy usage. To achieve Scope 3 level disclosure, the manufacturer would also need to estimate the emissions produced by customers ...

Fundamental portfolio managers analyse ESG performance of funds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 APR 2020  |  NEWS
... strongly, with several fundamental construction factors playing into the performance, said Lucy Steed, CEO of Melior. "Energy has had a significant decline; we own no energy," she said. "In terms of financials, based on the Royal Commission, we have ...

The role of finance has never been more important: RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 APR 2020  |  NEWS
... equality a key point of discussion, but the full story. In the scenario of the transition to more reliance on renewable energy, there is a key difference between the global financial crisis and the financial crisis that is occurring as a result of the ...

ESG indices, products faring relatively better in coronavirus response

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2020  |  NEWS
... been focused on governance issues which are quite important as well," Vynokur said. "We have seen in particular that the energy sector, which is a significant contributors to environmental concerns has been under very significant pressure over the past ...

Principles for sustainable economic stimulus in coronavirus response: WRI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2020  |  NEWS
... sustainable use of natural resources across seven issues "at the intersection of environment and development" - climate, energy, food, forests, water, cities and the ocean. Stimulus packages should follow three principles - 1) do no harm 2) make win-win ...

Commonwealth Bank provides sustainability-linked finance to Wesfarmers

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2020  |  NEWS
... The environmental metrics aim to reduce the carbon emissions intensity of ammonium nitrate within Wesfarmers Chemicals, Energy and Fertilisers business, a Wesfarmers spokesperson told The Sustainability Report. in the importance being placed on ESG ...

AXA IM develops carbon footpath strategy based on forward climate action

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... investment in a broader swathe of the economy. I would also say it would be important keeping a foothold in utilities and energy because if we are interested in seeing sustainable GDP growth, it is part of the way forward to move away from brown utilities ...