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Investors make 2012 climate change investment commitments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... Investor Action Plan on Climate Change Risks & Opportunities, INCR agreed to an eight-part agenda that includes managing investments to address climate-related risks and opportunities, improving corporate practices on climate change and sustainability ...

Climate change, human rights, social justice top 2012 agenda

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... comes the question of, how do we do something about it. Part of that is the new step along is looking at clean tech investments." Mercer will update its 2011 report Climate Change Scenarios - Implications for Strategic Asset Allocation, which estimated ...

Share placements become governance issue for investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... global banking issues. For institutional investors, the first risk of equity capital raisings is dilution of existing investments, which is often the tack that institutional investors take when addressing the issue with company boards. The Sustainability ...

Durban agreements to impact Australia's ETS

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... instruments rather than grants and concessional loans. There will be a board to establish the funds and determine the investments. By the looks of the documents that came out in Durban, it will be quite a useful mechanism, provided there's enough funding ...

Presima joins Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 DEC 2011  |  NEWS
... of real estate assets and by utilizing new standards of measurement, we make better decisions with respect to our investments. In addition to assessing risk and return objectives utilizing traditional financial inputs, our belief in including ESG factors ...

Carbon credits to be regulated as financial products

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... to sell the credits will have to register for an AFS license, which is regulated by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). "It's expected, and it's appropriate," said Grant Anderson, a partner in the energy and resources group at ...

Climate Bond Standard to screen green bonds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... contributing to the delivery of a low carbon economy. In its first stage, the Climate Bond Standard lists wind energy investments currently eligible with an expansion to solar energy and other renewable energy investments to follow in the coming months. ...

Australian and NZ companies increase community giving in 2011

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... globally. LBG is an international network that provides a framework to measure the value and impact of corporate community investments on both business and society. LBG analyses investments in terms of inputs, outputs and impacts.

Green bonds form basis of new institutional investment funds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
With the increasing demand for sustainable fixed income investments on the rise, fund managers are creating funds that invest in so-called "green bonds" - bonds with investments in projects such as renewable energy developments. While it is possible ...

Only 4% of CDP respondents see high risks with carbon pricing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... carbon future. Many of the new products reported related to energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies and investments in this space. Very few companies provided much detail on specifics, occasionally citing commercial confidentiality." Herd ...