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CEFC commits $30 million to EUA financing fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
The Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) has committed up to AU$30 million to a fund financing environmental upgrade agreements (EUA). Oliver Yates, CEFC CEO The CEFC is partnering with National Australia Bank (NAB) and Eureka Funds Management to ...

350.org Australia issues ASX200 fossil fuel divestment study

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
Institutional investment portfolios containing coal, oil and gas companies "risk lower returns in the long run while portfolios avoiding these companies can provide competitive returns," according to a report published by The Australia Institute in ...

Cbus Super to target suicide prevention initiatives

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... suicide prevention and intervention initiatives and that intervention efforts also need to address possible work-related risk factors for suicide," according to Cbus Super. Cbus Super is an AU$22 billion industry superannuation fund with more than 700,000 ...

NAB outlines goals in 2014 Reconciliation Action Plan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2014  |  NEWS
... programs need to be relevant and the further corporate indigenous programs go away from core business, the more they run the risk of being lost or discontinued when a downturn comes." In addition to reporting that their Indigenous Money Mentor programme ...

ASX could include ESG language in new governance guidance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2014  |  NEWS
... part of that package, ASX proposed adding Recommendation 7.4 to Principle 7, covering how listed boards recognise and manage risk. Recommendation 7.4 says "[a] listed entity should disclose whether, and if so how, it has regard to economic, environmental ...

CCA final report reveals future policy shock for investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2014  |  NEWS
... repeal and development of the Emissions Reduction Fund as a short-term trend," the IGCC said. This creates climate policy risk for institutional investors, which have long dated obligations to beneficiaries and clients. The government has proposed abolishing ...

Call for EUA inclusion in Emissions Reduction Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2014  |  NEWS
The Emissions Reduction Fund (ERF) should develop a method based on environmental upgrade agreements (EUA), Sustainable Melbourne Fund has said in a submission to the Department of Environment. Scott Bocskay, CEO of the Sustainable Melbourne Fund Sustainable ...

UCA Funds Management sets exclusions in fossil fuel policy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2014  |  NEWS
... fossil fuels can be consumed by 2050 if global warming is to be constrained to the 2-degree goal. Unburnable carbon is a risk scenario for companies that are exposed to fossil fuels, and the extent to which assets are devalued is highly dependent on ...

AustralianSuper equities less carbon-intense than benchmarks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2014  |  NEWS
AustralianSuper's domestic and international equities holdings are less carbon intensive than relative benchmarks, according to a carbon assessment of its total equities portfolios. AustralianSuper commissioned Trucost to undertake the carbon intensity ...

IGCC joins world peers in voicing fugitive methane concerns

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2014  |  NEWS
... implementation of best practices to prevent venting of natural gas into the atmosphere. IGCC, the Investor Network on Climate Risk (INCR) and the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC) have followed up on work carried out on in 2012 ...