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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 ...

Climate change to bring more frequent, intense weather: IAG

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... add together to produce something we haven't seen before," Leplastrier said. The report assesses the latest climate science as at July 2020 and examines the effect climate change will have on extreme weather events across different parts of Australia ...

Data management presents risk, opportunity: Governance Institute

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... governance concerns for corporate Australia. The report, authored by CSIRO's Data61, the digital specialist arm of the national science agency, found that the majority of respondents placed "damage to brand or reputation as the highest potential impact ...

MSCI climate tool provides new data for private real estate assets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... estate into the multi-asset class approach. What's nice about this approach is the same underlying approach to the climate science is the same the broad framework to applying that to investment risk for equities and fixed income."

First State Super targets 30% emissions reduction in equities portfolio

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... engagement with companies as part of the fund's asset stewardship program. "We are seeing more severe climate impacts, and the science really showing us that we need to act now," said Liza McDonald, head of responsible investment at First State Super. ...

CEFC invests $1.7 million in Australian agritech company

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... contributing to lower greenhouse gas emissions. "Australian farmers are keen early adopters of technology and look to science to improve the productivity of their land. By increasing the amount of water that can be stored in soil, the SCC technology ...