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Industry super cuts emissions exposures by 40%

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
An industry superannuation fund has cut the carbon emission exposures of its equities portfolios by 40% over the previous year through the introduction of carbon-constrained benchmarks. Aware Super has created a new series of listed equities benchmarks ...

Social, economic consequences of climate change "devastating": Robeco

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... consequences of climate change in a business as usual scenario are expected to be "devastating," but mitigating investment risk based on backward looking data and not future transition is a challenge for investors, according to Robeco. Robeco recently ...

Evolution Mining links value generation to sustainability goals

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... Evolution identified emerging climate-related risks as aligned to the TCFD framework, and included those emerging risks in their risk register. The annual report noted that "climate-related risks are actively reported, and targets have been developed ...

AGL, ARENA in $8m electric vehicle charging study

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... accelerate the commercialisation of the orchestration of EV charging by examining the key sources of uncertainty and investment risk such as the commercial model, technology approaches, customer behaviour and market structure, ARENA said. ARENA has previously ...

Investing for the day after tomorrow: Janus Henderson

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... goals are increasing, which counters longer held arguments that investing in line with ESG information brings concentration risk. "When I first started looking at this two years ago, our universe was much smaller," Seery said. "Within the last two years ...

State of the climate report confirms need for climate-aware investing: Future Super

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
Recent observations by CSIRO and the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) on the pace and severity of climate change "confirms what people already know" and also gives impetus for investing in line with reducing the risks and effects of climate change, according ...

Women continue to make strides in ASX200 board positions: AICD

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
Ten more ASX200 companies have reached the target of having 30% of their board positions filled by women, according to the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD). Currently, women hold 32.1% of ASX300 board positions, an increase of 2 percent ...

Mercer launches analytics, advisory tool for climate transition

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... risks and opportunities that arise from the transition to a zero carbon economy." ACT allows investors to examine climate risk and currently covers listed assets and provide guidance for other asset classes for investors to complete a total portfolio ...

Investors urge companies to broaden view of modern slavery risks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... supply chains where there is significant pressure on lead times." In addition to encouraging companies to take a detailed, risk-based mapping exercise of supply chains as a way to gain greater visibility of the supply chain, IAST APAC will work together ...

Climate change, SDG impacts of US election

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
As President-Elect Joe Biden prepares the next administration, there are implications for action in Australia as well as for achieving greater alignment with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). As of publication, Biden and Vice-President Elect ...