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Praemium enhances ESG tools with SMA, research

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2020  |  NEWS
... categories: pornography, gaming, animal testing, armaments, alcohol, tobacco, and three categories in fossil fuels- thermal coal, oil sands, and oil and gas. These screens feed into Praemium's existing capabilities that permit customisation of portfolios. ...

Industry coalition organises Principles for Sustainable Securities Lending

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2020  |  NEWS
A coalition of fund managers organised under the aegis of the International Securities Lending Association (ISLA) have developed the Principles for Sustainable Securities Lending (PSSL). The ISLA Council for Sustainable Finance's (ICSF) PSSL aim to ...

AXA IM develops carbon footpath strategy based on forward climate action

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... increasing those percentages. Similarly, it is possible to evaluate companies based on their estimated revenue from thermal coal versus metallurgical coal. "We can get to pretty good estimates on information that will allow us to draw a trend line and ...

Investing for positive environment impact, financial return: First Sentier

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... listed infrastructure universe is the electric power sector, which "is leading the way by reducing emissions" by closing coal plants and replacing generation capacity with renewable energy. First Sentier's Sustainable Listed Infrastructure has identified ...

Comment: hindsight is 2020

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... result of these changes, Fink will be "exiting investments that present a high sustainability-related risk, such as thermal coal producers; launching new investment products that screen fossil fuels" as well as increasing transparency. Furthermore there ...

GSSB developing new GRI standard for agriculture and fishing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... sector for greenhouse gas emissions." This is the second of the GRI Sector Standards under development, after oil, gas and coal, GRI noted. It is planned that further sectors, focused on those with the highest impacts, will be added in future. The Sector ...

Analysis: climate change, Australia and the fierce urgency of now

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... assertively discourage any fossil fuel expansion by services companies in investment portfolios." Public calls for divestment from coal, and other fossil fuel extraction activities is mounting. However, superannuation funds are governed by legal and ...

Genex Power closes $192 million certified green debt funding package

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 DEC 2019  |  NEWS
... the Jemalong Solar Project will provide more electricity capacity to the grid as it prepares for the upcoming retirement of coal powered generation" Genex has agreed an engineering, procurement and consruction contract and an opration and maintenance ...

Climate-related policies "inevitable", but likely to be disorderly: IPR

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2019  |  NEWS
... the impact will be felt is important. Other aspects driving policy response in future are likely to be the phasing out of coal. Fulton forecasted that coal demand is currently at peak and will begin to rapidly decline by 2025, with renewable energy generation ...

QBE, Suncorp among global insurers exiting coal: Unfriend Coal

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 3 DEC 2019  |  NEWS
Australian insurers QBE and Suncorp are among global insurers and reinsurers withdrawing cover for new coal projects, according to the third annual Unfriend Coal scorecard. Seventeen of the world's biggest insurer have announced they are withdrawing ...