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Responsible investment AUM tops AU$630 billion: RIAA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUL 2016  |  NEWS
... an increase of 179%. RIAA noted that the increase was led by sizeable mandates to themed funds "such as sustainable agriculture funds, green themed property funds, as well as a strong emergence of low carbon funds." Impact investment has also continued ...

Climate-aligned bonds total US$694bn: Climate Bonds Initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2016  |  NEWS
... 2016, from 780 individual issuers across transport, energy, buildings and industry, water, waste and pollution and agriculture and forestry. Obviously, the universe is dominated by unlabelled climate-aligned bonds - bonds that are not labelled or certified ...

Food Loss and Waste Accounting Standard launched

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUN 2016  |  NEWS
... 3GF 2013 Summit by the World Resources Institute, and protocol partners include the Consumer Goods Forum, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), EU-funded FUSIONS project, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), World Business ...

AODP releases 2016 Global Climate 500 Index

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2016  |  NEWS
... energy generation and clean technology development, waste and recycling processing, energy efficiency and sustainable agriculture." A total of 33 Australian institutions are on the AODP index, with 11 are ranked D or lower, including two at X, down from ...

ARENA providing funding support for bio-energy project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2016  |  NEWS
... said ARENA CEO Ivor Frischknecht. "The fuel is earmarked for sale under a proposed off-take agreement with a global agriculture and energy corporation and export through the Port of Townsville." RDA intends to grow sugarcane and sweet sorghum for biofuel ...

Australian grain industry poised for export gains: ANZ

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2016  |  NEWS
... ANZ. Michael Whitehead, ANZ Bank's sector head of food, beverages and agribusiness global diversified industries The agriculture sector is currently undergoing change at a pace not seen since the 1960s, said Michael Whitehead, ANZ sector head of food ...

Agriculture, food and beverage pose ESG risks: Ausbil

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 FEB 2016  |  NEWS
Companies in Australia's agriculture and food and beverage sectors may see new growth from increased demand in export markets via the new Australia-China free-trade agreement, but investors need to be mindful of potential risks including food safety ...

Nordea joins Corporate Human Rights Benchmark

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2016  |  NEWS
... will be benchmarked against those indicators. The companies will cover three industry sectors - food and beverage/agriculture, apparel, and extractives. Nordea is the largest asset manager in the Nordics with EUR184 billion in assets under management. ...

AXA IM to launch second impact investing fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2015  |  NEWS
... "We're looking at areas such as biodiversity, for example, how to shift mono-crops to multicrops in the context of agriculture. We're also looking at different funds tackling the eradication of tropical rainforests while building healthy lifestyles - ...

Climate Bonds Initiative to release V2.0 standards this month

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 OCT 2015  |  NEWS
... clean energy, which made up 20%, or US$118.4 billion. The remaining 10% of bonds came from buildings and industry, agriculture and forestry, waste and pollution, water themes, and multi-sector bonds. Fowler said there are expectations of more water and ...