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Climate-aligned bond universe jumps to US$895 billion: Climate Bonds Initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 SEP 2017  |  NEWS
... the largest labelled green bond issuers in descending order are Supranationals, USA, China, France, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden, Spain, Canada, Australia, India and Brazil, while New York City is amongst the largest sub-sovereign bond issuers in the ...

Mining sector showing "signs of progress" on emissions management, face continued risk: CDP

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUL 2017  |  NEWS
... Africa are likely to be the most adversely affected." BHP Billiton ranks second for water resilience, behind Boliden of Sweden. Rio Tinto did not respond to CDP's 2017 water questionnaire. CDP particularly highlighted recent weather events in northeast ...

Cambridge Institute for Sustainable Leadership to offer director program

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 OCT 2016  |  NEWS
... Steffen, adjunct professor at the Australian National University, Canberra, and senior fellow at the Resilience Centre, Sweden; Sarah Barker, special counsel at Minter Ellison, and Sam Moystn, non-executive director and sustainability advisor. "This ...

Investors should measure climate risks: South Pole Group

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2016  |  NEWS
... Pole Group. "It's very much in line with other activities by developed countries out there including Germany, Switzerland, Sweden and the Netherlands. In one way or another, they are looking at the connections between climate change and investments ...

Q&A: Madeleine Senior, Bert Rebelo, Northern Trust

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2016  |  NEWS
... scalable, otherwise they're not going to work. We're going to make sure that what we do appeals, whether it's in Australia or Sweden, it has to work both ways. RA: how does this play into the Asset Management perspective? BR: We spoke about Quality ESG ...

Global Reporting Initiative to open Manila Office

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAR 2016  |  NEWS
... region, including working with stock exchanges and development banks, supported by the governments of Australia, Switzerland, Sweden and others for its work in the region. Later in March, GRI will conduct workshops for more than 100 sustainability reporters ...

RIAA calls for actions to create responsible financial markets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2015  |  NEWS
... pull, it comes from asset owners, and there you see leadership across the world. If you think about the Nordics, particular Sweden, there is leadership coming from AP4 or AP3. You don't have a real push by the regulator or other ESG risk, but then you ...

LGS joins Portfolio Decarbonization Coalition

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2015  |  NEWS
... co-founded last year by the United Nations Environment Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) the fourth National pension fund of Sweden, AP4, Europe's largest asset manager Amundi and CDP. In addition to LGS, the UK Environment Agency Pension Fund and the French ...

BP shareholders pass Aiming for A climate risk resolution

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2015  |  NEWS
... institutions co-filed the shareholder resolutions, including eight pension funds with assets of over $15bn: three AP Funds (Sweden), Connecticut (US), Ilmarinen (Finland), Greater Manchester (UK), West Midlands (UK) and West Yorkshire (UK). Resolution ...

Investors commit to growing green bond market

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... Climate Bonds announced their commitment in New York at the opening of the UN Climate Summit. The signatories include ACTIAM, Sweden's AP1/ Forsta AP-Fonden, AP2/ Andra AP-Fonden, AP3/Tredje AP-Fonden, AP4/ Fjarde AP-Fonden, Aviva Investors, BNP Paribas ...