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COP26 week two: negotiations focus on carbon markets, reporting

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 9 NOV 2021  |  NEWS
... builds capacity in countries across the region, Gerrard said. "It is really trying to provide a financial vehicle for investment, including low emissions energy tech and nature-based solutions in the Indo-Pacific that could provide a more holistic, high ...

COP26 week one: what Australians need to know

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 NOV 2021  |  NEWS
... week about how COP26 commitments will impact on businesses and investments. COP26 commitments as catalyst to private investment As COP26 was getting underway, Impax Asset Management head of policy and advocacy Chris Dodwell said credible pathways to ...

IFRS announces plan for comprehensive sustainability standards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 NOV 2021  |  NEWS
... requirements that address companies' impacts on sustainability matters relevant to assessing enterprise value and making investment decisions." The IFRS Foundation is the governing body that develops and promotes the International Accounting Standards ...

Measuring transition risk key to picking climate leaders: Aviva Investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 NOV 2021  |  NEWS
... across the value chain. Looking at market valuations through this transition lens allows us to point out significant investment risks and opportunities. It is this framework that allows us both to have an impact and to generate financial market performance. ...

New Forests to partner on African forestry strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 NOV 2021  |  NEWS
... finance institution, Finnfund, the Finnish Fund for Industrial Cooperation, Norfund, the Norwegian Government's investment fund for developing countries and New Forests comes as COP26 countries including Australia pledge to halt and reverse deforestation ...

Fidelity International to invest $150bn in net zero strategies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 NOV 2021  |  NEWS
... International Climate Rating assesses how investee companies are tracking to achieve net zero, Tan said. "We divide the investment universe into five different buckets from most to least advanced - companies that are achieving/enabling net zero, those ...

Credible COP26 outcome needed to catalyse private investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 NOV 2021  |  NEWS
... managing Impax's engagement in the development of policy issues and providing insights on policy to the firm's investment teams. Prior to this he worked in the UK government for 10 years work on climate change, leading the UK's implementation ...

ESG a thematic tailwind for microcap stocks: Yarra Capital

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 NOV 2021  |  NEWS
... talk to them about getting on a path and thinking around things that they could do to improve those outcomes. Often, investment success will not be the greatest, highest-achieving business from the beginning, but rather something that improves over time." ...

Fiji, Australia sign Indo-Pacific Carbon Offsets Scheme deal at COP26

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 2 NOV 2021  |  NEWS
... investing an additional $44 million, on top of the $59.9 million originally invested into the scheme, taking the total investment to $104 million over 10 years. Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Prime Minister Josaia Voreqe Bainimarama signed the agreement ...

ASX200 ESG reporting increases, but gaps remain: PwC

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 OCT 2021  |  NEWS
... standards and frameworks are adapting and converging; and capital providers require more information to meet ESG driven investment mandates. "While the Australian regulatory environment might be perceived as one with minimal ESG reporting obligations ...