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Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures release draft guidance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2016  |  NEWS
The Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) has released draft recommendations for comparable disclosures of climate change related risk. Emma Herd, CEO, IGCC The recommendations are structured around four themes -g overnance, strategy ...

Barcaldine Remote Community Solar Farm begins energy generation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2016  |  NEWS
... the world on the contribution of solar PV to total electricity generation (at 2.5% in 2015). Modelling published by the Climate Change Authority has found that large-scale solar could make up as much as 18% of Australia's electricity generation by 2030 ...

NAB Asset Servicing launches Carbon Report product

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 DEC 2016  |  NEWS
... partnership with NAB Asset Services as providing asset owners with a means to take a strong first step in understanding their climate change risks, said Catalina Secreteanu, head of Australia for Sustainalytics. "From our perspective, the interesting ...

Monash University issues world-first certified green bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 DEC 2016  |  NEWS
... options in US dollars and Australian dollars over 15 years, 17.5 years or 20 years. The bond has been certified under the Climate Bonds Standard by the Climate Bonds Standards Board, and Monash University engaged Ernst and Young to provide verification ...

Investors discuss investing in two degree world at RIAA conference

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 DEC 2016  |  NEWS
Institutional investors are taking active approaches to managing climate risks and shape their portfolios to fit the commitments of the Paris Agreement, including targets and commitments put in place to help mitigate risk and seek risk-adjusted return ...

Julia Leske appointed new chief executive officer of CAER

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2016  |  NEWS
... responsible investment policies and methodologies. In addition to the partnership with Vigeo Eiris, CAER also collaborates with climate specialists South Pole Group to provide carbon assessments and climate strategies for investments portfolios.

IGCC, investor groups issue updated guide for oil and gas industry

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2016  |  NEWS
The Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC) and other global investor bodies have updated their guide to investor expectation for the oil and gas industry. Emma Herd, CEO, IGCC I nvestor Expectations for Oil and Gas Companies: Transition to a Lower ...

EY issues call to action to companies over social license to operate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2016  |  NEWS
... maintaining their social license to operate or if they are running a "corporate trust deficit." Matthew Bell, EY Oceania climate change and sustainability leader EY recently issued Is your social license operating?, a paper which outlines three imperatives ...

Shell Scenarios on pathways to net-zero emissions

PIA LEFEVRE  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2016  |  NEWS
... to aid in their decision making. Shell's company strategy now and into the future is being impacted by the impacts of climate change and the Paris Agreement, and is analysing how to "bring energy solutions that bring more and cleaner energy into the ...

Australia, NZ assets perform strongly in GRESB Infrastructure Assessment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2016  |  NEWS
... banks, insurance companies, pension funds, and sovereign wealth funds in infrastructure investments that are low carbon, climate resilient and socially inclusive, is particularly important." GRESB ranked AMP Capital's Diversified Infrastructure Trust ...