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Climate Bond Standard to screen green bonds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... The finalised text of the standard was approved by the Climate Bond Standards Board -the Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC), California State Teachers' Retirement System (CalSTRS), the Natural Resources Defense Council, the California State Treasurers' ...

IGCC working group to engage with green finance banks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
The Investors Group on Climate Change (IGCC)'s new Low-Carbon Finance Working Group will play a stakeholder role with "green" financing institutions both domestically and overseas, consulting with the institutions being established by governments to ...

Investor groups call for climate change policy action

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
Three leading investor groups on climate change, including the Investor Group on Climate Change Australia/New Zealand (IGCC), have called for policy action to stimulate private sector investment into climate change solutions that can create jobs and ...

Jillian Broadbent to chair Clean Energy Finance Corp panel

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... will be introduced later in 2012 to allow the CEFC to start operating in 2013/2014. The Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC) welcomed Broadbent's appointment and said that her background and experience will help the CEFC iwn the confidence of capital ...

Business, investors get certainty as carbon package passes

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... Meanwhile, investors also welcomed the certainty that the legislation's passage brings. The Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC), a collaborative body of Australian and New Zealand institutional investors managing AU$700bn in AUM, said that investors ...

Renewable energy poses opportunities, risks for investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... other types of infrastructure investments," said Nathan Fabian, chief executive of the Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC). "They have higher confidence in infrastructure investments that they understand or have done before - bridges, roads, other ...

Investors urge adoption of carbon legislation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 SEP 2011  |  NEWS
... scheduled a vote in the House of Representatives for 12 October, a move welcomed by the Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC). Under legislation outlined by Prime Minister Julia Gillard, the scheme will start from 1 July 2012. For the first three years ...

Institutional investors back carbon tax scheme

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 11 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... receive assistance, with a particular focus on supporting trade-exposed industries. The Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC), a collaborative body of Australian and New Zealand investors with over AU$600 billion in funds under management also welcomed ...

Investor Profile: Victorian Funds Management Corporation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2011  |  NEWS
... relationships with our external providers, that is our research providers for voting, The Investor Group on Climate Change [IGCC] and the Carbon Disclosure Project [CDP] and Regnan our engagement service provider. Another key part of my role is working ...

IGCC: carbon price delay could cost electricity sector $2.5bn

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2011  |  NEWS
... electricity sector for both investors and energy users, according to a study commissioned by the Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC) and Catholic Super. The research by economic modelling firm SKM/MMA compared the costs of meeting a -5% emissions ...