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Statewide Super signs Paris Pledge for Action

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JAN 2016  |  NEWS
... Statewide Super has signed the Paris Pledge for Action, a supporting document resulting from the United Nations COP21 climate summit. Signatories to the Paris Pledge for Action promise to ensure that the ambitions in the Paris Agreement are met or exceeded. ...

Paris Agreement refers to mitigation co-benefits

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2015  |  NEWS
... Express reference is useful, and it's a shift from the Kyoto Protocol." Gerrard spoke at a forum during the Paris Climate Summit (COP21) hosted by UNESCO, entitled 'Resilience in a time of uncertainty: Indigenous peoples and climate change'. For her ...

Global Investors sign Paris Green Bonds Statement

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 DEC 2015  |  NEWS
... development of green bonds as part of the activity needed to achieve climate change goals arising form the Paris Climate Summit (COP21). Twenty seven global investors have signed the PGBS (PGBS), undertaking to work with bodies such as the Climate Bonds ...

Assessing net benefits of Indigenous CFI projects

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2015  |  NEWS
... benefits for both Indigenous groups and the entities purchasing the credits. Gerrard spoke at a forum during the Paris Climate Summit (COP21) hosted by UNESCO, entitled 'Resilience in a time of uncertainty: Indigenous peoples and climate change'. For ...

Peter Woolcott outlines Australian priorities for COP21

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2015  |  NEWS
A successful outcome to the Paris Climate Summit will be an agreement that sets a strategy for global action over time in which countries that are party to the process are similarly engaged on a pathway to cap global temperature increases to 2 degrees ...

Mercer speaks on managing future risks, climate change

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2015  |  NEWS
... going forward." The thematic thinking about climate risk is building to a peak this year with the forthcoming Paris Climate Summit (COP21) where there is a clear focus on engaging private finance to meet the adaptation and mitigation needs to keep the ...

Climate-aligned bond universe reaches $597.7bn

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2015  |  NEWS
... billion. "Investors representing $43 trillion of assets under management signed statement at last September's UN Climate Summit about the importance of addressing climate change and their willingness to invest accordingly, subject to meeting their risk ...

Five investors join initiative to grow green bond market

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 DEC 2014  |  NEWS
... NSW and the ACT, NAB said. The Investor Statement on Green Bonds and Climate Bonds was first released at the UN Climate Summit in September. Signatories also called on climate science experts to "develop clear standards for the climate change impacts ...

Montreal Carbon Pledge a building block: Cbus' Atkin

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
... that the private sector can play in mitigating and adapting to the impacts of climate change, a theme of the UN Climate Summit that was also held in September. But one of the issues that Cbus is considering as it assesses the pledge is how much should ...

Panel discusses fossil fuel divestment for super funds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... multistakeholder group Portfolio Decarbonization Coalition, which was announced during September's United Nations Climate Summit. Institutional investors participating in the Portfolio Decarbonization Coaltion have committed to measuring and disclosing ...