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Vietnam a source of green infrastructure projects, pipeline: CBI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... government," said Kristiane Davidson, head of green infrastructure investment, Climate Bonds Initiative. "Integrating mitigation and climate resilience criteria into conventional infrastructure planning provides Vietnam with a concrete opportunity to ...

Cromwell Property Group reports on sustainability progress for 2019

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2020  |  NEWS
... properties from a technical perspective, and is now assessing what the reports mean in the context of climate risk, mitigation and physical risk. Cromwell is also focusing on its reporting required by the Modern Slavery Act. Cromwell and 14 other Australian ...

Industry coalition organises Principles for Sustainable Securities Lending

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2020  |  NEWS
... collateral based on ESG factors," Chadwick said. "Even though the primary, arguably the sole, use of collateral is as a risk mitigation tool, optically, if you're not comfortable with owning the securities outright, you should be similarly uncomfortable ...

ESG data can augment low-volatility quant strategies: Northern Trust

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... relative to the benchmark, with higher quality, higher ESG content overall, Hunstad said. "The case of ESG being a risk mitigation tool is coming across very strong. Even if ESG is not your primary goal, there's a case to be made that it should be included ...

Integrating ESG essential to infrastructure portfolio: First Sentier Investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2019  |  NEWS
... ground, such elevated transformers which have been raised to three, four 4 metres above ground. Increasingly, those mitigation measures against climate change, interruptions, have become very important. That's what the customers expect, the gov't expects ...

Fiduciary duty, regulatory environment top ESG push factors: SSGA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 NOV 2019  |  NEWS
... behalf of cioents, and a desire to mitigate ESG-related risks. Primary drivers of adoption in the APAC region include mitigation of ESG risks at 47%, fiduciary risk at 38% and pressure from beneficiaries at 37%, SSGA said. "The research results confirm ...

Cromwell Property Group on value of sustainability performance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 NOV 2019  |  NEWS
... properties from a technical perspective, and is now assessing what the reports mean in the context of climate risk, mitigation and physical risk, he said. "The emergence of the TCFD recommendation, is now setting a tone in which we consider impacts on ...

CBI, WWF call upon central banks, prudential regulators for climate action

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2019  |  NEWS
... issuance based on assets that are "increasingly vulnerable to sharp revaluations and pricing volatility from climate mitigation policy and physical risks." The intended effect of the brown taxonomy would be to discourage use of brown assets in issuance ...

Put climate resilience at the core of business strategy: WBCSD

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2019  |  NEWS
Businesses must put climate resilience at the core of strategy, and scale up investment in mitigation efforts alongside adaptation efforts, according to a new report from the World Business Council on Sustainable Development (WBCSD). Andrew Petersen ...

Climate change impacts "top of mind" for investors: Nuveen Real Estate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2019  |  NEWS
... and making sure that we're investing in real estate of sufficient quality that can withstand impacts." But beyond the mitigation of climate impacts on the existing portfolio, Nuveen has also identified sustainability as one of three disruptors that are ...