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Australia to join climate resilience investment initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 25 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... Government initiatives building on existing climate resilience and adaptation strategies that range from world leading climate science, to disaster and drought resilience programs that protect our unique ecosystems." Australia will also commit an initial ...

Translating net zero goals into near-term decisions: Robeco

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... Robeco wants to invest in line with the goals of a net zero carbon emissions global economy by 2050. According to climate science, that implies halving carbon emissions by 2030, and approximately 25% by 2025. Robeco is working to translate this into ...

Science-based targets key to addressing the world's biggest challenges

LOUISE WATSON  |  TUESDAY, 29 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... office. Joe Biden's stance on climate change, combined with Biden's on-record comments that he will be guided by science, is good news for responsible investment managers, like our responsible investing affiliate, Mirova. Increased focus by the ...

Aviva Investors launches climate transition equity fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... utilise and report in accordance with the TCFD guidelines. Further to that, Aviva Investors encourages companies to set science-based targets for decarbonisation. As previously reported, the £522 billion global fund manager has identified climate risk ...

Companies pledge 100% renewable energy by 2025

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... installation program and will help us deliver our renewable energy goals." BINGO has also committed to implementing a Science Based Target to assist in reducing the company's emissions across all operations, the scope of which will include BINGO's fuel ...

Climate Bond Standard launches shipping criteria for bonds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... CEO, Climate Bonds Initiative. "The introduction of the shipping criteria to the Climate Bonds Standard opens up another science-based investment pathway for capex to be applied in this sector and delivers a range of positive environmental impacts." ...

Fund manager creates, hires for ESG role

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
... infrastructure teams across the nation achieve better infrastructure sustainability. Cairns holds a Bachelor of Environmental Science and Management (Honours) from the University of Newcastle and a Diploma in Project Management from the University of ...

PRI executive appointed to European Platform on Sustainable Finance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
... Sustainable Finance. The Platform on Sustainable Finance will advise the European Commission on the development of robust and science-based technical screening criteria for the EU taxonomy and policy development, as well as other duties, according to ...

Investors to develop tool to measure biodiversity impacts

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... acknowledge that "many challenges remain to capture nature's complexity into manageable metrics and to integrate the latest science into investment decision making." AXA IM has previously said that biodiversity loss is one of its key focus areas ...

Woolworths commits to ambitious GHG emissions cuts

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... Woolworths Group has committed to reducing its scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions by 63% by 2030 in targets endorsed by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi). In addition, Woolworths has committed to reduce absolute Scope 3 greenhouse gas emissions ...