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Ethical Investment Advisers launches fossil-fuel free SMA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... for fossil-fuel free investments, Edkins said. "People are becoming more engaged with the idea of divesting from fossil fuels, particularly with the work of not for profits like 350.org," she said. "But there aren't a lot of fossil-fuel free funds out ...

Mercer: ESG as source of innovation in shifting economy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... the risk of unburnable carbon, a concept that stipulates that only around one third of current proven reserves of fossil fuels can be consumed by 2050 if global warming is to be constrained to the 2-degree C goal. Unburnable carbon is a risk scenario ...

350.org Australia issues ASX200 fossil fuel divestment study

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... returns" because of the risk of unburnable carbon. - concept that only around one third of current proven reserves of fossil fuels can be consumed by 2050 if global warming is to be constrained to the 2-degree C goal. Unburnable carbon is a risk scenario ...

UCA Funds Management sets exclusions in fossil fuel policy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2014  |  NEWS
... investment, and "[w]here a company is a major investor in renewable energy, that interest will be offset from excluded fossil fuels interests when considering whether the company remains open for investment," according to UCA Funds Management. "There's ...

CDSB expands natural capital in new reporting framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 FEB 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 ...

RIAA to engage NZ investors on climate change, investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
... fund because they have to." Unburnable carbon is a concept that only around one third of current proven reserves of fossil fuels can be consumed by 2050 if global warming is to be constrained to the 2-degree goal. Unburnable carbon is a risk scenario ...

Investors ask companies for information on fossil fuel exposures

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... capital to shareholders." Unburnable carbon is a concept that only around one third of current proven reserves of fossil fuels can be consumed by 2050 if global warming is to be constrained to the 2-degree goal. Unburnable carbon is a risk scenario for ...

Northern Trust develops emerging markets low CO2 fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... risk by excluding both companies with high greenhouse gas emissions and companies that have extensive reserves of fossil fuels, and incorporating other environmental, social and governance factors, Northern Trust said. The fund is a new sub-fund of an ...

Bill McKibben urges super funds to divest from fossil fuel

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... tour. He compared the burgeoning global movement asking institutional investors to divest from companies that extract fossil fuels to the campaign demanding investors divest from holdings in South African companies during the apartheid era. "We're finding ...

Greens call on Future Fund to divest from coal companies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2013  |  NEWS
... fossil fuel investments behind, including many who have pledged to move their savings to banks that don't invest in fossil fuels. The Future Fund should join that movement."