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Climate Bond Standard to screen green bonds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
The Climate Bond Initiative has released its prototype Climate Bond Standard, a screening tool that certifies bonds as contributing to the delivery of a low carbon economy. In its first stage, the Climate Bond Standard lists wind energy investments ...

Green bonds form basis of new institutional investment funds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... the High Quality Green Bond strategy, which offers institutional investors a way to direct fixed income investments to climate solutions. SSgA's High Quality Green Bond Strategy seeks to approximate the duration of its benchmark, the Barclays Capital ...

Westpac reports sustainability progress, net profit

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... their multiple brands distinctive, future growth, IT systems, employee development, responsible lending and investment, climate change and diversity and flexibility. Across its retail brands, which include Westpac, St. George, Bank of Melbourne, BankSA ...

Mirvac identifies 22 material sustainability issues

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... responsibility and supply chain. Out of the 22 issues that were identified by stakeholders, reputation and market positioning, climate change and energy, carbon pricing, waste and water management, engagement with employees, tenants and customers and ...

Carbon tax passes Senate, pricing concerns remain

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... transactions and the sooner they can appropriately price their products and services," said Mathew Nelson, Ernst & Young's climate change and sustainability leader. "The ability of businesses to begin to prepare for full trading is also impacted and ...

Governance, environmental issues for AGM season

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... of CAER - Corporate Analysis. Enhanced Responsibility pointed to the anticipated resolutions to be proposed by the the Climate Advocacy Shareholder Group, which was founded by fund manager Australian Ethical Investment. Earlier this year, the Climate ...

IGCC working group to engage with green finance banks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
The Investors Group on Climate Change (IGCC)'s new Low-Carbon Finance Working Group will play a stakeholder role with "green" financing institutions both domestically and overseas, consulting with the institutions being established by governments to ...

Investor groups call for climate change policy action

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
Three leading investor groups on climate change, including the Investor Group on Climate Change Australia/New Zealand (IGCC), have called for policy action to stimulate private sector investment into climate change solutions that can create jobs and ...

Jillian Broadbent to chair Clean Energy Finance Corp panel

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... legislation that will be introduced later in 2012 to allow the CEFC to start operating in 2013/2014. The Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC) welcomed Broadbent's appointment and said that her background and experience will help the CEFC iwn the confidence ...

Business, investors get certainty as carbon package passes

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
... a cap." Meanwhile, investors also welcomed the certainty that the legislation's passage brings. The Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC), a collaborative body of Australian and New Zealand institutional investors managing AU$700bn in AUM, said that ...