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Experts warn of trustees' climate change litigation risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2015  |  NEWS
... countries to reduce emissions to cap global warming at 2 degrees C, there will be a significant impact on the amount of fossil fuels that can be extracted. This will have a material impact on the asset value of a number of companies, and, a consequent ...

VicSuper exploring developing climate change fund option

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2015  |  NEWS
... see if there is potential demand for an investment option that addresses climate change by either divesting from fossil fuels and carbon intensive companies, or favouring companies that are actively reducing their climate change impacts. The fund's internal ...

CDSB launches expanded reporting framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2015  |  NEWS
... the management view of climate change-related risks and opportunities and greenhouse gas emissions, and now covers fossil fuels, water stewardship and forest commodities. It has also been influenced by the CEO Water Mandate Disclosure Guidelines. The ...

Climate change impacts on investments "inevitable": Mercer

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2015  |  NEWS
... you have to constrain your investments that are cast as they are today, which means, heavily reliant as they are on fossil fuels, in order to move towards a lower carbon future that will come at a cost. This study really doesn't support that thesis ...

LGS joins Portfolio Decarbonization Coalition

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2015  |  NEWS
... as continually improving the carbon performance of our portfolio." Last year, LGS implemented a negative screen on fossil fuels, and the superannuation fund has reduced the carbon intensity of their international share portfolio to 30% below its benchmark. ...

Video: Fossil Fuel Divestment Exposure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2015  |  NEWS
... result of those factors, institutional investors have a duty to evaluate the potential risk to investments brought by fossil fuels and carbon emissions intensity, and to make decisions relative to their portfolio, their governance structure and their ...

Future Home Loans to broker fossil fuel free loans

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... with the Big Four banks and moved more than $400 million worth of loans and deposits to banks that don't lend to fossil fuels." Future Home Loans is targeting the home loan space as a means of growing the fossil fuel divestment movement and effectuating ...

ACCR to continue engaging over banks' carbon disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... said in a summation of the 2014 commitments. "NAB has disclosed how much of its lending to the mining sector is to fossil fuels. Westpac has disclosed how much of its lending to the mining sector is to fossil fuels as well as the carbon intensity of ...

Investors apply ethical screens to cash management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
... (ESG) matters. The recently launched Future Super is operating under the investment policy of zero investments in fossil fuels. The fund launched a month ago and was founded by Adam Verwey, formerly a senior relationships manager at Australian Ethical ...

CDSB publishes final draft of expanded framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
... climate change-related risks and opportunities and greenhouse gas emissions. The new draft framework also covers fossil fuels, water stewardship and forest commodities, CDSB said. It has also been influenced by the CEO Water Mandate Disclosure Guidelines ...