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Australian Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility joins Deloitte

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 NOV 2017  |  NEWS
... Sustainability advisory practice covers workplace health and safety, sustainability (climate risk and adaptation, and low carbon transition and energy management), crisis, and safety leadership, culture and wellbeing. "From the Deloitte perspective ...

ANZ Bank identifies climate change as component within credit risk, talks TCFD guidelines in 2017 Annual Review

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 NOV 2017  |  NEWS
... an important standard for our business and signals the importance we place on all firms managing the transition to a low carbon economy. Two years ago it was clear we needed to re-shape ANZ's future in response to a fast-changing external environment ...

Clean Energy Finance Corporation publishes 2016/2017 annual report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 NOV 2017  |  NEWS
... Fund. The commitments in 2016-2017 "focused on industry sectors with strong potential for decarbonisation, including low carbon electricity, such as solar, wind, battery storage and bioenergy; ambitious energy efficiency, such as property, infrastructure ...

Russell Investments launches Low Carbon Global Shares Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 OCT 2017  |  NEWS
Russell Investments has launched the Low Carbon Global Shares Fund, designed to reduce the exposure to carbon emissions and carbon reserves by 50% of the MSCI ACWI benchmark. James Harwood, portfolio manager, Russell Investments The fund uses Russell ...

IGCC annual conference discusses managing climate change risk, solutions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 OCT 2017  |  NEWS
... solutions, and for financial service providers to asses companies' performance. In a master class session discussing low carbon tools for the transition, Alexis Cheang: Senior Responsible Investment Consultant, Mercer Investments, noted that Mercer had ...

IGCC survey finds institutional investors seeking to increase low-carbon investments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 SEP 2017  |  NEWS
... was the incredibly strong appetite to increase investment and their desire to find a way to increase investment to low carbon investments," said Emma Herd, chief executive officer of the Investor Group on Climate Change. "We certainly didn't expect to ...

Climate-aligned bond universe jumps to US$895 billion: Climate Bonds Initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 SEP 2017  |  NEWS
... report found that majority of bonds have tenors of 10 years or more;, and the majority are also government-backed. Low Carbon Transport was the largest single sector, with $544 billion, nearly two-thirds of the total $climate aligned universe, followed ...

SSGA Global Index Plus Trust to exclude tobacco, controversial weapons

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 SEP 2017  |  NEWS
... ESG risk and management, Shead said. Tobacco and controversial weapons have been frequent topics of discussion, with low carbon responses as the second most frequent. "We've certainly had plenty of discussion with clients about low carbon - that would ...

Mining sector showing "signs of progress" on emissions management, face continued risk: CDP

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUL 2017  |  NEWS
... disclose but manage their transition risk." CDP also found that governance and remuneration are not aligned with a low carbon transition, noting "though seven of the 12 companies detail climate-linked performance metrics in their CEOs' remuneration plan ...

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

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUN 2017  |  NEWS
... executive officer of Catholic Super and chair of IGCC. "As long term investors, we are actively looking to support low carbon solutions and work in partnership with government to ensure that policy delivers on ambition." The Australian government has ...