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Carbon Market Institute calls for clarity in safeguard mechanism, Emissions Reduction Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 OCT 2017  |  NEWS
... mechanism and Emissions Reduction Fund (ERF) and outline how the policies will "evolve" to meet targets under the Paris Agreement. Peter Castellas, CMI CEO There has been debate about the introduction of a Clean Energy Target (CET) as outlined in the ...

Vision Super to hire environmental activist to join Climate Action Team

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 AUG 2017  |  NEWS
... policy changes at national and international level, said Stephen Rowe, Vision Super CEO. "We're a signatory to the Paris Agreement, and take the risks posed by climate change very seriously, so we've formed a Climate Action team that includes Michael ...

Will Australia adopt the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures recommendations?

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUN 2017  |  NEWS
... think, as they have, that one of the key elements in the success of implementation of the commitments made in the Paris Agreement have to come from a much stronger framework for standards for reporting risk management for the financial sector across ...

Investors decry decision by United States president to withdraw from Paris Agreement

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUN 2017  |  NEWS
... institutional investors have condemned the decision by the president of the United States to withdraw the country from the Paris Agreement. Emma Herd, chief executive officer of the Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC) "The Paris Agreement is key ...

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 ...