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Investors ask companies for information on fossil fuel exposures

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... top oil and gas, coal and electric power companies to assess the financial risks of climate change to their business. The Carbon Asset Risk (CAR) initiative, coordinated by Ceres and the Carbon Tracker Initiative, with support from the Global Investor ...

CBA questioned over carbon emissions calculations

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has reported that it has achieved and exceeded its target to reduce carbon emissions by the end of the 2012/2013 financial year, but it included in its calculations of its reductions a re-allocation of 3,500 tonnes ...

Green bond potential to finance low-carbon chemical industry

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... industry, said Sean Kidney, Climate Bonds Initiative CEO. Sean Kidney, Climate Bonds CEO "The latest science shows that carbon emissions in industrialized countries will need to drop by at least 90% by 2050 in order to avoid severe climate change." Kidney ...

Companies face uncertainty from timing of carbon tax repeal

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
Companies that are currently liable under the carbon pricing mechanism (CPM) face uncertainty over their compliance and potential pricing arrangements if the government's proposed legislation to repeal the price on carbon is not passed by July 2014. ...

MSCI launches MSCI ESG DataMetrics

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... DataMetrics features 174 metrics on eight cross-industry ESG issues for all companies on the MSCI World Index, including carbon emissions, water stress, labour management, and corporate governance. There is four years of raw data, including water use ...

Northern Trust develops emerging markets low CO2 fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
Northern Trust has developed an emerging markets fund made up of companies that have both lower carbon emissions and less fossil fuel reserves. The Fourth Swedish National Pension Fund (AP4) will invest in the Northern Trust Emerging Markets Custom ...

UN Statistics Division releases ecosystem accounting system

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... specialized field to handle the complex technical problems that accounting for and assurance of water resources, climate change, carbon trading and whole ecosystems present." One area that will have to be overcome is how corporations can attribute their ...

NAB, Westpac leaders in 2013 CDP Global 500

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... to company activities - scope 3 emissions. CDP raised concerns that this gap may lead companies to underestimate their carbon impact. The report notes that 72% of the Global 500 measure emissions associated with business travel, but business travel equates ...

HSBC calls for policies to support low-carbon financing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
... on energy efficiency and adaptation. To date, climate disclosure on capital markets has focused on risk, notably around carbon emissions," the report said. "This needs to be matched by greater transparency on allocations to climate solutions, an agenda ...

City of Melbourne, NAB, Eureka Funds Management sign EUA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
... have financed a AU$7 million environmental upgrade agreement (EUA) that will retrofit a Melbourne office tower to reduce carbon emissions by more than 600 tonnes a year. Signing of the AU$7 million EUA. Pictured from left are the EUA signatories in front ...