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Cutting the carbon without sacrificing return: UBS

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUN 2021  |  NEWS
Investors can drastically reduce the carbon intensity of their portfolios without sacrificing returns, and may achieve outperformance, according to research from UBS. UBS identified 25 stocks from the MSCI World index which are buy or neutral rated ...

Calculating the social cost of carbon: Dimensional Fund Advisors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... economy, which make assumptions about the costs and benefits of cutting emissions. These models can help find the optimal carbon tax policy and the associated trajectory for future GHG emissions," Dimensional said in a summary of its recent research ...

Assessing climate risk in corporate bond portfolios

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 25 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
J.P. Morgan Asset Management has developed a carbon transition investment framework to identify and reduce climate risks in corporate bond portfolios. The framework has been developed to assist insurance and superannuation fund clients in particular ...

Australian business face European carbon levy for exports

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
Australian businesses risk having to pay an expensive levy to export goods to the European Union based on the intensity of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions used in making and shipping products. The European Parliament's environment committee recently ...

Deep Decarbonisation: Green Hydrogen, Net Zero, and the Future of the EU-ETS

MARK LEWIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... specific policy outcome, namely a given reduction in emissions over a given period of time. The EU-ETS differs from a carbon tax in that it is a market mechanism: the regulator sets the targeted emissions reduction over a given period in advance and ...

Social, economic consequences of climate change "devastating": Robeco

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... insights into how markets are exposed to carbon risks, Robeco looked at the potential financial effects of a universal carbon tax. Whilst there is no actual universal carbon tax, governments are setting targets and allocating money towards those ends. ...

Reports analyse landscape for sustainability disclosures by corporate Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2018  |  NEWS
... requirements for reporting, Australia has seven, while Singapore has 12 and South Africa has 20. Singapore has introduced a carbon tax for direct large direct emitters, and in South Africa, companies listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange are required ...

Corporate governance, quality linked as investment factors: Northern Trust

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2016  |  NEWS
... that's excellent, but there may be significant environmental risk associated there - 10 years from now, if they put on a carbon tax, companies with a significant carbon intensity exposure might be a disadvantage." The results of their internal research ...

Impax Asset Management analyses environmental impact of portfolio

PIA LEFEVRE  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2016  |  NEWS
... stocks in companies focusing in energy efficiency markets. "The scenario that we are analysing is that a carbon price or carbon tax is implemented in the global economy, the cost of every producer of energy goes up, people use less energy as a result ...

Less than half of suppliers reporting CO2 data: CDP

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2016  |  NEWS
Climate change risks could significantly impact suppliers' business operations, revenues or expenditures, but less than half of suppliers participating in the CDP's annual supply chain survey have set a target to reduce carbon emissions. CDP has released ...