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AXA IM develops carbon footpath strategy based on forward climate action

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
Investors should evolve from a strategy of reducing their portfolio carbon footprint, based on point-in-time emissions to a carbon footpath investment strategy that takes into consideration how companies are moving towards decarbonisation, according ...

J.P. Morgan Asset Management developing ESG scoring framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... engagement with companies in five specific priority areas, including climate change, and has become a signatory to Climate Action 100+. The global fund manager is also developing an ESG scoring framework that will utilise in-house research on the materiality ...

Investing for positive environment impact, financial return: First Sentier

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... "One of the largest ones is affordable clean energy. The other ones are around responsible consumption/production, climate action, sustainable cities, and clean water and sanitation. Those themes run through the portfolio." First Sentier has identified ...

Company, investor climate change partnership "essential": Robeco

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... own process of engagement with companies. "Investors worldwide have joined forces to engage companies on their climate action, and you see that there is power in collaborating jointly as jointly investors can give a more powerful message, and also it ...

BlackRock joins Climate Action 100+ investor initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
BlackRock has joined Climate Action 100+, the global investor initiative that engages with the world's largest corporate greenhouse gas emitters on action on climate change. Emma Herd, chief executive officer of the Investor Group on Climate Change ...

Australian Ethical questions calls for limits on environmental activism

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 19 NOV 2019  |  NEWS
... producers. "The catalyst for us to speak out has been they appear to be an attempt to one, portray the call for climate action as one some sort of fringe activism and two, as economically restrictive," said Dr Stuart Palmer, head of ethics research at ...

VicSuper: $3 billion in assets linked to sustainable outcomes

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 NOV 2019  |  NEWS
... particular results and that managers know about those companies as well, we can make it a feedback loop as well." Climate action is one of the eight SDGs that VicSuper has prioritised alongside quality education, affordable and clean energy, and good ...

First State Super on Climate Action 100+, engagement, and fund strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2019  |  NEWS
... resolutions related to climate risk disclosure and management, First State Super, one of the signatories to the Climate Action 100+ coalition, reflects on the progress made in the first year of work by the group. Liza McDonald, head of responsible investment ...

CBI, WWF call upon central banks, prudential regulators for climate action

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2019  |  NEWS
Central banks and prudential regulators should take "accelerated action" to reduce systemic financial sector vulnerability to climate risks, increase global green capital allocation, and support transition by bank, insurers, and other financial institutions ...

Put climate resilience at the core of business strategy: WBCSD

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2019  |  NEWS
... recently published Business Climate Resilience - Thriving through the transformation, launched to coincide with the UN Climate Action Statement. The report's theme is that "enterprise risk management and transformation to resilient business models are ...