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Investors seeking ESG themes, factors in fixed income portfolios

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2016  |  NEWS
... Planet Bond fund, which actively invests in green bonds and "environmental projects that facilitate the transition to a low carbon economy." AMP Capital Investors does examine ESG issues as it impacts on corporate and sovereign bonds, and while the impact ...

MEP Werke GmbH, Strasser Capital join Climate Bonds Initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUN 2016  |  NEWS
... successful businesses that capitalize on the global energy transition and thereby accelerate the development towards a low carbon economy. Further to this, we are currently structuring a long-term note issuance programme, secured on a granular portfolio ...

IGCC outlines climate change policy priorities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUN 2016  |  NEWS
... for the next term of federal government that should be a foundation for managing risk and encouraging investment in low carbon finance opportunities. Emma Herd, CEO, IGCC IGCC identified the seven policy priorities are "stable and durable climate change ...

Verdia to assist companies on energy efficiency project design

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUN 2016  |  NEWS
... Fund. "Being able to put together the partnership with Westpac is a major opportunity to accelerate the transition to a low carbon future," Peters said. "To put it another way, between now and 2020 there will be $20bn invested by commercial property ...

Westpac Group issues $500m climate bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2016  |  NEWS
Westpac Group has issued an AU$500 million climate bond to fund renewable energy and low carbon commercial property in Australia. Siobhan Toohill, Westpac The funds from the bond from the Westpac Climate Bond will be allocated to seven wind energy facilities ...

PRI considering integration of Sustainable Development Goals

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAY 2016  |  NEWS
... would be a flow on in parallel to the work that investors will do out, for example, in investing in the transition to a low carbon economy, Reynolds said. In terms of regional developments, PRI has integrated the Association for Sustainable and Responsible ...

AODP releases 2016 Global Climate 500 Index

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2016  |  NEWS
... carbon asset risk. LGS has also "amplified" its ESG approach through divestment in high carbon shares and investment in low carbon investments. "As a result of introducing a new exclusion on coal mining, coal-fired electricity generation and oil tar ...

London Stock Exchange joins Climate Bonds Partnership Program

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2016  |  NEWS
... LCH.Clearnet. "London Stock Exchange Group is a committed supporter of green financing and we see the transition to a low carbon economy as a major industrial trend," said Nikhil Rathi Chief Executive Officer, London Stock Exchange plc. "Developing London ...

Norton Rose Fulbright becomes Climate Bonds Initiative partner

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2016  |  NEWS
... Fulbright. "Our relationship with Climate Bonds Initiative is indicative of the significance we place on climate, energy and low carbon transition. Climate Bonds plays an active role in international discourse on the development of new market-based climate ...

Global Investors sign Paris Green Bonds Statement

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 DEC 2015  |  NEWS
... objectives into climate finance outcomes. Adding green bonds into the climate finance mix can help the shift of capital to low carbon projects, infrastructure and climate resilient development. Credible, robust and liquid green bond markets can only ...