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Companies pledge 100% renewable energy by 2025

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... most cost efficiently; if you can install solar and be behind the grid, that is preferable to a PPA, but if you don't have enough rooftop space, then a PPA is the only solution." Resolution Capital recently conducted a survey of Industrial REITs related ...

Investing in the low-carbon transition: Ninety One

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... executive remuneration to decarbonisation targets. Cooper noted that there is a risk that targets are not set at a high enough stretch level, meaning that executives would be remunerated for easier accomplishments. "The problem is, people are not ready ...

Australia vulnerable as countries decarbonise

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
... particularly vulnerable under this long term outlook - fossil fuels represent a chunk of the economy, and there is thus far not enough public investment to finance the transition, said Jennifer Wu, global head of sustainable investing, J.P. Morgan Asset ...

RIAA adviser guide aims at education in ESG space

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
... said. "The APL issue is very real. It will pose problems in risk compliance terms, to make sure that they are flexible enough around that to make sure that a client's needs are met." Williams also highlighted the concern that many advisers have that ...

Opinion: Australian super funds could benefit from US ESG policy move

RAEWYN WILLIAMS  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... this argument might be, the higher fee structure tends to be true also in Australia, although super funds that search hard enough can get useful rules-based ESG screens and tilts on equity portfolios (as opposed to fully integrated, actively researched ...

Climate change to bring more frequent, intense weather: IAG

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... there has only been a limited number of severe cyclones in that area in the past hundred years, there is not a significant enough database to draw information, Leplastrier noted. But by examining data like sea surface temperatures and other factors that ...

Rest climate change case pushes ahead

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 17 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... initial claim was filed, Rest did correspond with him. However, McVeigh remained unsatisfied that his super fund was doing enough to manage climate change risk. McVeigh is being represented by Equity Generations Lawyers principal David Barnden. Barnden ...

Substantial investment needed for sustainable infrastructure: RARE Infrastructure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... investment might be directed. RARE cited International Energy Agency (IEA) statistics stating that in order to lower emissions enough to keep with the UN climate change target to 1.5 -2 degrees of warming, "a baseline case of roughly $1.3 trillion needed ...

Does it pay to worry about ESG factors in emerging markets?

ERNEST YEUNG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... companies where the long-term value potential is either unrecognized or not fully understood. Simply being cheap is not reason enough to invest in a company. We also need to see clear potential for fundamental change. This could be the result of external ...

Sustainability, fair trade organisations call for equitable COVID-19 recovery

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... ambitious to meet the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 - and less than a third consider their industry to be moving fast enough to deliver the SDGs," said Kylie Porter, Global Compact Network Australia executive director. "Change will not happen ...