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QIC adds office fund to net zero commitment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAR 2022  |  NEWS
QIC has upped the ante on its 2028 net zero carbon emissions goals for its real estate holdings by adding its more than $300 million office fund to the commitment. The $328 million QIC Office Fund (QOF) is part of QIC's $17.2 billion real estate portfolio ...

Draft Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures released

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2022  |  NEWS
... sides of the same coin." Measuring biodiversity destruction and impacts is far more complicated than measuring carbon emissions or climate risk, said Emma Herd, a partner at EY's Climate Change and Sustainability Services (CCaSS) practice. "There ...

US SEC proposes rules for climate disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAR 2022  |  NEWS
US listed companies will be required to report on carbon emissions, climate-related goals and transition plans and climate-related risk assessment under draft rules from the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). As part of the proposed rules ...

BlueScope steels itself for climate action

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAR 2022  |  NEWS
... will be enhancements to existing processes involving iron ore processing and technologies directed at reducing carbon emissions from existing iron and steelmaking processes. There is a role for purchasing carbon offsets to meet net zero, because there ...

Carbon capture - real deal or "Hail Mary pass" technology?

JANE BASEBY  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2022  |  NEWS
... It provides a vehicle for difficult to abate industries like cement - which accounts for one-fifth of global carbon emissions - to credibly commit to net zero by 2050. It promises to solve the political problem faced by politicians in countries reluctant ...

Active Super turns to fixed income carbon on road to net zero

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAR 2022  |  NEWS
Active Super's fixed income investments are the single largest contributor to its portfolio carbon emissions, with the $14 billion super fund using new calculations as the basis for its interim planning to meet their 2050 net zero target. Active ...

CEFC backs soil health technology platform

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAR 2022  |  NEWS
... every avenue open to us," said CEFC CEO Ian Learmonth. "Soil organic carbon has a vital role to play in reducing carbon emissions in Australia's agricultural sector. Putting the best data and technology in the hands of farmers, financial institutions ...

Climate change a macro trend, driving secular themes: J. P. Morgan Asset Management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 17 FEB 2022  |  NEWS
... European regulation is driving new standards." Berelowitz pointed out that transport represented 20% of global carbon emissions and there are opportunities to invest in the greening of existing methods of transport, as well as the transition to different ...

CEFC, super funds allocate to IFM Investors private equity fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 17 FEB 2022  |  NEWS
... our economy and companies for a low carbon future, said HESTA CIO Sonya Sawtell-Rickson. "We are driving down carbon emissions right across our portfolio," Sawtell-Rickson said. "Through our private equity investments, we're backing innovative climate ...

American Century outlines 2022 sustainability priorities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 3 FEB 2022  |  NEWS
... biodiversity impacts that food production and food wastage has on ecosystems and you can look at it from the carbon emissions perspective and the economic perspective. But you can also look at food wastage from the perspective of the number of people ...