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Australia vulnerable but resilient on climate risk: FM Global

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUN 2022  |  NEWS
Although Australia ranks 107 th out of 130 countries for climate risk exposure, it sits in 20 th place for its ability to address those risks, according to a new ranking from FM Global. The insurer has released the 2022 FM Global Resilience Index, which ...

Igneo reports on ESG progress

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2022  |  NEWS
... put the two companies in contact with each other." Igneo also disclosed progress on assessing individual assets for climate risk, based on a pilot program undertaken with Moody's. "In 2020, we did a portfolio-wide assessment with another external provider ...

Leaders on road to ESG maturity by 2030: KPMG

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2022  |  NEWS
... events pose to their business operations, infrastructure and people - 38% of respondents believe that in 2030 physical climate risk and the resilience of their value chains will be a priority. This increases to 60%amongstbusinesses over $500 million. ...

ASIC: improve greenwashing disclosure or risk penalty

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2022  |  NEWS
... reviewing the International Sustainability Standards Board's (ISSB) draft accounting standards on sustainability and climate risk. She also noted that ASIC has encouraged companies for several years to align their climate risk disclosures with the ...

Brambles sets 2040 net zero target

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUN 2022  |  NEWS
Logistics company Brambles has announced that it will achieve its net zero target by 2040, ten years earlier than first pledged. As part of that new deadline, Brambles has set 2030 interim targets approved by the Science Based Target Initiative (SBTi) ...

Podcast: How to create and communicate a decarbonisation strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUN 2022  |  NEWS
In this episode brought to you by MFS Investment Management, we discuss decarbonisation, and how a net-zero strategy can be used to communicate not only investment strategies, but also a narrative belief to key groups including clients, super fund members ...

Qantas Super in $2bn climate risk mandate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 6 JUN 2022  |  NEWS
Qantas Super has aligned just under a quarter of its $8.5 billion portfolio with the goal of reducing emissions by 24% by 2025 on the road to net zero by 2050. The corporate super fund has selected Calvert Research and Management and Goldman Sachs Asset ...

Warning on climate risk if net zero targets not achieved

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUN 2022  |  NEWS
... transition, it's just not on the speed to limit climate change to 1.5 degrees," Lawson said. "The way you invest around climate risk adaptations and the physical effects aren't something you want to ignore because the consequence of a 2.2 degree world ...

Moving to cloud brings financial and sustainability dividend: Deloitte

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAY 2022  |  NEWS
... current weather conditions, or drone-enabled crop monitoring to support agriculture productivity, or incorporating climate risk into financial asset pricing. The joined sustainability, cost and efficiency savings represents a "sustainability dividend" ...

CBA sees push to greater quantity, quality of climate risk reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAY 2022  |  NEWS
... designed to meet the information needs of investors in assessing enterprise value," according to ISSB. The ISSB's climate risk reporting standard is aligned with the TCFD, which is increasingly adopted across Australian organisations. Recently, Australian ...