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AXA IM hires Alix Chosson to responsible investment team

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUL 2016  |  NEWS
AXA Investment Managers (AXA IM) has hired Alix Chosson to its responsible investment team. Matt Christensen, global head of responsible investment, AXA IM Chosson has been hired as energy fundamentals analyst, will be based in London and reports to ...

GRESB hires Lonneke Lowik as new head of operations

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUN 2016  |  NEWS
... and investment managers, to achieve their long-term return objectives and understand the risks." Lowik holds a Master of Science in Civil Engineering from the University of Technology Delft in the Netherlands and a Master of Science in European Property ...

Companies advised to stress test climate change scenarios

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 APR 2016  |  NEWS
... carbon emissions. "In light of Paris, not more than five months ago, there is a new dynamic out there, and it is to do with science-based targets and is saying, the world is now committed to no more than 2 degrees of pre-industrial levels," said Chi ...

Impact Investing Australia launches guide to define social costs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 FEB 2016  |  NEWS
... on costs and potential benefits, which can often be a complex task, given the lack of control groups and other social science experiment designs. "You need to define what the outcomes are, and what you will achieve, and then there is that issue that ...

Less than half of suppliers reporting CO2 data: CDP

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2016  |  NEWS
... companies are currently establishing the extent to which future regulation will impact their business, CDP noted. "The science and the policy have never been clearer," said Paul Simpson, chief executive officer of CDP. "Greenhouse gas emissions must ...

Can sustainability considerations drive corporate innovation?

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JAN 2016  |  NEWS
... sustainability might be further emphasises and clarified given the release of the government's National Innovation and Science Agenda. However, neither "sustainability" nor "innovations" are panaceas, but rather long-term considerations that are deeply ...

Workplace diversity a driver of innovation: DCA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JAN 2016  |  NEWS
... (DCA). Lisa Annese, CEO, Diversity Council Australia Picking up on the release of the government's National Innovation and Science Agenda, DCA pressed the case for the link between diversity in the workplace and increased innovation. "As a general principle ...

Panel discussion: Investing and human rights

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 DEC 2015  |  NEWS
... become," Murphy said. "That question isn't new - when Adam Smith looked at his theory of economics, he came out of social science I think what's happened over the years as we've become more specialized and we've said, this is a finance field, this is ...

Assessing net benefits of Indigenous CFI projects

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2015  |  NEWS
... The experience and establishment of Indigenous savanna fire projects in Australia resulted from a combination of Western science and traditional knowledge. Combining two cultures and two knowledge bases in this way to get credible scientific rigour around ...

Citi joins Natural Capital Declaration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2015  |  NEWS
... programme manager, Natural Capital Declaration. "We look forward to working with Citi to help catalyse the inclusion of science and data on natural resource constraints and environmental pressures into lending and investment decisions." CD is a global ...