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LGS invests in US$250 million EBRD green bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
Ed note: Updates with information from Local Government Super, board appointment Local Government Super (LGS) has invested in a European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) green bond. LGS CEO Peter Lambert LGS was the only Australian superannuation ...

EY: Businesses need long term carbon policy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
... uncertainty is undermining the ability of companies to make the long-term commitments to reducing carbon emissions over a horizon stretching out as far as 20 years, Nelson said. Because of the uncertainty, companies at this time are only investing in ...

Asset owners, managers see climate change as material risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
... carbon intensity, in such a way that institutional investors understand that climate change, whilst it has a longer time horizon, already has impacts and offers opportunities that can be addressed in the short and medium term." Assessment of climate ...

Impax Asset Management makes case for fossil fuel divestment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
Eliminating the fossil fuel sector from a global benchmark index can yield a small positive return effect with low tracking error, according to analysis by Impax Asset Management. Impax created model equity portfolios structured around fossil fuel divestment ...

ACCA: Rio+20 corporate sustainability commitments "too weak"

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
The corporate sustainability commitments outlined in the Rio+20 2012 outcome document are too weak and represent a missed opportunity to catalyse corporate action, according to a new report from the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA). ...

Bill McKibben urges super funds to divest from fossil fuel

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... devalued is highly dependent on how international policy is implemented, the type of fossil fuels in question, and the time horizon of new projects. "The bottom line point is that this is a moral point," he said. "There's also this double message that ...

Australian exposed to carbon bubble through coal resources

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAY 2013  |  NEWS
... devalued is highly dependent on how international policy is implemented, the type of fossil fuels in question, and the time horizon of new projects. Carbon Tracker recently published analysis that posited that in order to have an 80% of achieving that ...

Assessing fossil fuel value in an "unburnable carbon" world

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... in a carbon constrained world, but the risk is not evenly distributed across all resources or across a long term time horizon, according to a report by Citi. Elaine Prior Citi analysts examined the implications for ASX200 companies that are exposed to ...

MSCI: using ESG ratings can improve portfolio returns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... are factored into the investment process. When you think about the more positive ratings, their impact on the investment horizon is, tends to be a longer term impact." Further, the way that the researchers approached the task, by using three different ...

Will sustainability survive the end of the boom?

JOSH DOWSE  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... management, and corporate initiatives on social and environment issues have been relatively strongly supported. On the horizon, however, lies a brick wall stop to Australia's impressive income growth. All the signs are that a strong corporate sustainability ...