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Paris overshoot: are investors prepared?

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 12 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... zero by 2050. Likely climate scenarios follow a few paths: Paris-aligned paths, a 2°C trajectory, and a disorderly transition exceeding 2°C, influenced by policy changes and corporate actions. However, with most climate scenarios now pointing to a ...

Global economists identify key risks for the decade ahead

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 11 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... rapidly evolving risk landscape." Sach also highlighted the need for acceleration in Australia's national energy transition to mitigate energy supply and reliability risk, as Australia is faced with "worsening natural peril environment". "This grid ...

Report reveals progress on green finance

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... biodiversity in their portfolios as they face growing pressure to disclose their biodiversity impacts alongside climate transition plans. For example, France's central bank incorporates biodiversity indicators into its own portfolio disclosure. Singapore ...

Forestry fund raises $450m for natural capital

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 8 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... considerations and returns. "Investors globally are now thinking about the role of forestry, agriculture and land use transition in not only delivering returns, but reducing emissions, contributing to conservation, and the circular bioeconomy. "We believe ...

Built industry bodies call for green innovation policy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 8 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... environment toward standards that surpass the minimum requirements, and appropriate planning incentives can hasten that transition. "This would come at a low cost to government, enhance the sustainability benchmarks of Australian buildings and contribute ...

Top 10 most-read articles of 2023

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 28 DEC 2023  |  NEWS
... questioning the effectiveness - and appropriateness - of such statements. #8: Australia joins COP28 gender and just transition partnership December: Australia was among more than 60 countries to endorse the COP28 Gender-Responsive Just Transitions and ...

ESG in 2024: key trends and legislative changes for the year ahead

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 28 DEC 2023  |  NEWS
If 2023 marked a broadened focus on climate adaptation, transition, biodiversity and modern slavery, 2024 is poised to be the year of ESG integration, consolidated reporting, legislative compliance, supply chain due diligence, and managing artificial ...

How much does it cost to "green" a portfolio

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 DEC 2023  |  NEWS
... of European equities, to a climate index. A new whitepaper from ISS LiquidMetrix and STOXX analyses trading costs to transition a portfolio from "brown" to "green". The research investigates the cost of transitioning from the STOXX Europe 600 to three ...

Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures disbanded

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 DEC 2023  |  NEWS
... elements of mandatory disclosure including Scope 3 emissions and forward-looking statements, scenario analysis and transition planning. Climate-related financial disclosure requirements would be drafted as civil penalty provisions in the Corporations ...

Northern Trust pulled up for greenwashing

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 21 DEC 2023  |  NEWS
... misleading statements in the application of its negative screening for carbon emissions. The firm claimed its NT World Green Transition Index Fund excluded companies that "derive 5% or more of their total annual revenues (either reported or estimated) ...