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Business response to climate change "creative self-destruction"

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 OCT 2015  |  NEWS
... political and social responses to climate change. "We're not going to solve or avoid climate change - we're now in harm mitigation and how do we avoid the nightmare scenario," Wright said. "Business as usual is locking us in to those types of nightmare ...

Industrial relations: a vehicle for climate change mitigation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2015  |  NEWS
... and the Australian Workplace, which explored the work of Linfox and other organisations in the area of climate change mitigation. "This can result in a win/win/win situation, such as the study of Linfox," he said. "They adopted a target for this year ...

Expert panel discusses CSR practices in action

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2015  |  NEWS
... responsibility (CSR) practices can lead to outcomes including retention of staff, creation of new value for shareholders, mitigation of risks, and more efficient allocation of capital, according a panel of experts speaking at the recent launch of the ...

Local Government Super top AODP index

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2015  |  NEWS
... intensity from last year. The AU$7.5 billion fund also "had the widest range of climate change-related portfolio risk mitigation actions of all of the asset owners, including elements like providing guidance to its fund managers; putting a climate risk ...

Investor groups publish climate change investment guide

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2015  |  NEWS
... and opportunities of climate change within existing asset allocation and through evolving asset allocation over time, mitigation investment actions - actions for reducing carbon exposure in portfolios, along with opportunities to invest in low carbon ...

New Forests launches responsible investment policy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 APR 2015  |  NEWS
... assets under management, and manages 395,000 hectares of certified plantation forests as well as wetland and stream mitigation banks and forest carbon offset projects. The manager has four main vehicles - the Australia New Zealand Forest Fund (ANZFF) ...

Climate Bond Standard releases draft bioenergy criteria

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... proposed eligibility criteria. The committee has determined that bioenergy investments must deliver greenhouse gas mitigation potential, environmental, and social sustainability. Under the proposed criteria, bioenergy projects need to be certified under ...

Supply chain vulnerable to climate change risk: CDP

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... manage environmental risk. Those countries were reanked on a sustainability risk matrix that combines climate change mitigation strategies, carbon emissions reporting, target setting, emission reduction initiatives, climate risk procedures, uptake of ...

Universities "fail" on climate risk mitigation: AODP

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... around the world are doing little to mitigate exposure to climate change's financial risk, or failing to state their mitigation strategies at all, according to the Asset Owners Disclosure Project (AODP). AODP has launched the 2014-2015 Global Universities ...

Combet calls for return of carbon pricing policy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2014  |  NEWS
... currently serves as a director of IFM Investors and ME Bank, and noted that investments will be impacted by costs of mitigation policies as well as by the impacts of climate change itself. "My point being, that in the investment community, this needs ...