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RIAA to engage NZ investors on climate change, investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
... devalued is highly dependent on how international policy is implemented, the type of fossil fuels in question, and the time horizon of new projects. For investors, unburnable carbon becomes an investment risk if fuel reserves do stay in the ground and ...

Investors ask companies for information on fossil fuel exposures

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... devalued is highly dependent on how international policy is implemented, the type of fossil fuels in question, and the time horizon of new projects. For investors, unburnable carbon becomes an investment risk if fuel reserves do stay in the ground and ...

IIRC asks investors to critique pilot integrated reports

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... timeframes associated with key milestones and targets, continue to look beyond the short and medium term to a longer term horizon, close the gap between strategy and risks, governance and future value creation, [and] identify assumptions associated with ...

LGS invests in US$250 million EBRD green bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
Ed note: Updates with information from Local Government Super, board appointment Local Government Super (LGS) has invested in a European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) green bond. LGS CEO Peter Lambert LGS was the only Australian superannuation ...

EY: Businesses need long term carbon policy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
... uncertainty is undermining the ability of companies to make the long-term commitments to reducing carbon emissions over a horizon stretching out as far as 20 years, Nelson said. Because of the uncertainty, companies at this time are only investing in ...

Asset owners, managers see climate change as material risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
... carbon intensity, in such a way that institutional investors understand that climate change, whilst it has a longer time horizon, already has impacts and offers opportunities that can be addressed in the short and medium term." Assessment of climate ...

Impax Asset Management makes case for fossil fuel divestment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
Eliminating the fossil fuel sector from a global benchmark index can yield a small positive return effect with low tracking error, according to analysis by Impax Asset Management. Impax created model equity portfolios structured around fossil fuel divestment ...

ACCA: Rio+20 corporate sustainability commitments "too weak"

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
The corporate sustainability commitments outlined in the Rio+20 2012 outcome document are too weak and represent a missed opportunity to catalyse corporate action, according to a new report from the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA). ...

Bill McKibben urges super funds to divest from fossil fuel

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... devalued is highly dependent on how international policy is implemented, the type of fossil fuels in question, and the time horizon of new projects. "The bottom line point is that this is a moral point," he said. "There's also this double message that ...

Australian exposed to carbon bubble through coal resources

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... devalued is highly dependent on how international policy is implemented, the type of fossil fuels in question, and the time horizon of new projects. Carbon Tracker recently published analysis that posited that in order to have an 80% of achieving that ...