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Australian funds highlighted for climate action plans

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 13 JAN 2022  |  NEWS
Three Australia investors have been singled out for showing best practice in setting climate action plans. Aware Super, IFM Investors and UniSuper are part of a list of 10 institutional investors highlighted by the Investor Agenda for their work on ...

What you read in 2021

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 30 DEC 2021  |  NEWS
As 2021 draws to a close with continued uncertainty around the COVID-19 pandemic and the urgent need for climate action, FS Sustainability's most read stories showed that demand for professionals who can analyse and implement plans around material ESG ...

Beyond the spin - what did COP26 actually deliver?

SIMON O'CONNOR  |  FRIDAY, 26 NOV 2021  |  NEWS
... sift through the various announcements which came out of COP26 in Glasgow, has the needle on the dial shifted on climate action? Entering into this COP, we were hurtling towards a devastating 2.7 degrees of warming by the end of the century, with government ...

COP26 week two: impacts for Australians

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 11 NOV 2021  |  NEWS
Even as country delegations at COP26 got down to the business of negotiations, there was still room for dramatic announcements, with the US and China issuing a joint announcement committing to "enhanced climate actions" through the 2020s in the context ...

APAC investors taking decarbonisation action: SSGA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 11 NOV 2021  |  NEWS
... have signed on to the Net Zero Asset Managers Initiative earlier in the year, and we're actively working on our climate action plan. We're working on our net zero plan and the research findings here would help inform our planning. "It also helps us to ...

Measuring transition risk key to picking climate leaders: Aviva Investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 NOV 2021  |  NEWS
... meet the low carbon future could represent new value for investors. However, Mark Carney, UN special envoy for climate action and finance and UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson's finance adviser for COP26, has pointed out in the private finance strategy ...

NAB, Ramsay Health Care in ESG derivative transaction

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 21 OCT 2021  |  NEWS
... NAB is a signatory to the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative's Collective Commitment to Climate Action, working towards aligning business operations and lending portfolios to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050. When NAB ...

Paradice Investment Management hires ESG analyst

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 14 OCT 2021  |  NEWS
... modern slavery and climate change is something we are very proud of," he said. Paradice recently joined several Climate Action 100+ investor working groups, Investors Against Slavery and Trafficking (IAST) and the Responsible Investment Association of ...

Tightening climate focus on world's biggest emitters: Aviva Investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 30 SEP 2021  |  NEWS
... goals such as reduced inequalities and responsible production. The Climate Escalation Programme is our flagship 'climate action' programme. It is focused on 30 companies within the oil and gas, mining and utilities sectors which contribute towards a ...

Ratcheting up ambition on climate finance goals

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 16 SEP 2021  |  NEWS
... action towards the goals of the Paris Agreement that will shape financial markets. Mark Carney, UN special envoy for climate action and finance and UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson's finance adviser for COP26, has circulated a private finance strategy ...