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RIAA: Responsible Investment portfolios continue to grow

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... fuel [assets] with the work done by 350.org and other NGOs driving towards divestment, and we'll see the response from a risk management perspective and more broadly as well." The RIAA report also explored the New Zealand market, which has seen a higher ...

Impax Asset Management makes case for fossil fuel divestment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... seeking to persuade institutional investors to divest from fossil fuel-based assets as a way of protecting against the downside risk of climate change as well as the potential return of renewable energy investments. Impax used the MSCI World Index as ...

Byrne: Investors' ESG risk awareness increase biggest change

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
... ACSI. She has been at ACSI for five years, and says there has been progress in both investors and in companies around ESG risk issues. "I think one of the biggest changes is really a recognition by an increasing number of investors that ESG investment ...

Gaps in retailers' labour and human rights policy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... left more than 1,100 people dead. In addition to the sheer human toll of such accidents, they can also pose a reputational risk to retail companies that source from similar factories and can also pose business risks in terms of production delays and ...

CBA receives upgraded score in EIRIS sustainability report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
Commonwealth Bank of Australia has been highlighted for its improved sustainability performance, one of five "mega cap" companies to receive upgraded scores in the EIRIS Global Sustainability Report 2013. EIRIS's sustainability ratings assess corporate ...

Ernst Ligteringen: G4 and the third industrial revolution

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
The newest version of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) reporting standards will improve the quality of ESG disclosures, but governments and regulators need to foster a level playing field in which at least large companies are disclosing sustainability ...

GHG efficiency projects increase cities' finances and health

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... trends show that cities definitely expect this." Meanwhile, almost every city reported that climate change is a physical risk. "The other thing that stands out is the number of cities that say climate change is a physical risk for them," Riffle said. ...

Westpac, CBA, Benevolent Society launch social benefit bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... is in keeping families together. The New South Wales Department of Community Services refers the families that are at high risk of breaking up to the Benevolent Society for the service. The idea is that preventing families from disintegrating is the ...

Ann Byrne to step down as ACSI CEO

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... did much of the "heavy lifting" during that process. "ACSI has achieved a great deal in the management of ESG investment risk over the last five years and after October I look forward to reading about its future successes," Byrne said. Byrne is currently ...

Bill McKibben urges super funds to divest from fossil fuel

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... fossil fuel assets. The push for divestment is based on the push to stem climate change through the message of the financial risk of unburnable carbon. Unburnable carbon is the concept that only around one third of current proven reserves of fossil fuels ...