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Asset owners identify economic inequality as rising investment risk at ACSI conference

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAY 2017  |  NEWS
... CalPERS has regularly engaged with ExxonMobil over climate change concerns and concerns that the US would leave the Paris Agreement, and the face that ExxonMobil has communicated back to them that they sent a letter to the US government, urging continued ...

Majority of largest asset owners recognise risk of climate change: AODP

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 APR 2017  |  NEWS
... because of an extreme weather event. The second avenue would be a government's response to climate. If you take [the Paris Agreement] at its face value, it will mean that you have a movement towards a global price on carbon... It is the most cost effective ...

Directors, senior executives have obligation to consider climate change: Norton Rose Fulbright

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 APR 2017  |  NEWS
... fiduciary responsibilities company directors have in disclosure climate risks. In his speech, Summerhayes cited the Paris Agreement, a report by the Financial Stability Board's Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) recommending a ...

Experts discuss impact of Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosures guidelines

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 APR 2017  |  NEWS
... fiduciary responsibilities company directors have in disclosure climate risks. In his speech, Summerhayes cited the Paris Agreement, a report by the Financial Stability Board's Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosures recommending a global ...

Chart: CDP assessment of APRA-regulated entities' climate disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 APR 2017  |  NEWS
... amended to be aligned with the scoring methodology. In addition, companies are asked how the ratcheting of the Paris Agreement has influenced their business strategy. This is currently a non-scored part of the question, but one in which is of great interest ...

APRA calls for stress-testing of climate change risks in regulated entities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2017  |  NEWS
... impacted on the evolution of the impacts of climate risk, and the role that regulators such as APRA have to play: the Paris Agreement, a report by the Financial Stability Board's Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosures recommending a global ...

Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures release draft guidance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2016  |  NEWS
... force are significant because they both confirm the impacts of climate change and the impacts of implementing the Paris Agreement's commitment to limit warming to 1.5-2C, The Climate Institute said. "It is hugely significant that this industry-led task ...

Investors discuss investing in two degree world at RIAA conference

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 DEC 2016  |  NEWS
... are taking active approaches to managing climate risks and shape their portfolios to fit the commitments of the Paris Agreement, including targets and commitments put in place to help mitigate risk and seek risk-adjusted return, according to a panel ...

EY issues call to action to companies over social license to operate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2016  |  NEWS
... the imperative for companies to outline and communicate strategies that respond effectively to the goals of the Paris Agreement, which will necessitate concrete plans and quantitative commitments that are aligned with the goals of meeting a sub-2 degree ...

Shell Scenarios on pathways to net-zero emissions

PIA LEFEVRE  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2016  |  NEWS
... making. Shell's company strategy now and into the future is being impacted by the impacts of climate change and the Paris Agreement, and is analysing how to "bring energy solutions that bring more and cleaner energy into the world," said Jeremy Bentham ...