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IGCC: climate financing achievable, but needs policy clarity

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2014  |  NEWS
... auctioning carbon allowances," as well as noting that "a main barrier to the deployment of lowâ€carbon technologies is a low riskâ€adjusted rate of return on investment visâ€A â€vis highâ€carbon alternatives often resulting ...

SVA provides $800,000 financing to Indigenous company

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 APR 2014  |  NEWS
... contract, because that's much more intensive as the company is trying to bed down that large contract. That's the biggest risk.... We want to see them get to a suitable standard where they're managing the finance, the contract payments are coming through ...

IFC, Shenzhen Emissions Trading Exchange sign agreement

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 APR 2014  |  NEWS
... statement. "Moreover, this cooperation will help us to improve our overall capacity in product design, market promotion and risk management, which will lift the exchange's operations to the next level." The Shenzhen exchange encompasses 635 companies ...

University of Sydney issues second impact investing report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2014  |  NEWS
... requires overcoming several barriers - addressing the misperception that "investing for impact necessitates an appetite for high risk or a financial trade-off," for one, but charitable trusts and foundations also "grapple" with assessing and positioning ...

Norton Rose Fulbright: trustees must consider climate change

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2014  |  NEWS
... Rose Fulbright "Trustees should be undertaking more than just a watching brief in relation to climate change, and from a risk perspective, they should be educating themselves on the nature of the risk and the probability of those risks manifesting themselves ...

BITC index ranks global companies' corporate responsibility

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2014  |  NEWS
Companies that lead in corporate responsibility are linking sustainability progress with remuneration and have strong stakeholder engagement on sustainability, according to the Business in the Community (BITC) 2014 Corporate Responsibility Index. BITC ...

European Parliament adopts standards for ESG disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2014  |  NEWS
The European Parliament has adopted a measure requiring large European companies to disclose environmental, social and governance information as part of their annual reporting. Internal Market and Services Commissioner Michel Barnier Companies with ...

New Forests releases 2013 sustainability report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2014  |  NEWS
... on tropical Southeast Asia, looking to "certified plantation forestry with an emphasis on enhancing returns and reducing risk through technological and silvicultural improvements and a rigorous approach to sustainability in the areas of environmental ...

Combining quality measures with ESG can yield higher returns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2014  |  NEWS
... the same time. This optimised tracking error result counters one of the greater client concerns about ESG strategy - the risk that ESG portfolios are overly concentrated. "If you simply use negative screens or some other basic limitation to ESG, you ...

Investors say non-financials matter in investment decisions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014  |  NEWS
... EY. EY's report, Tomorrow's investment rules, found that investors are using non-financial performance as a benchmark for risk. However, the report found there there is a wide variation in how investors evaluate non-financial disclosures and there are ...