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COP27 preview: loss and damage, action on commitments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUL 2022  |  NEWS
... carbon emissions by 43% by 2030. Australia's enhanced NDC has been "well received," noted Emily Gerrard, director and principal lawyer at Comhar Group. "There are a number of countries since Glasgow that have submitted updated NDCs and Australia was ...

Financial inclusion as risk and opportunity: Principal Financial Group

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAY 2022  |  NEWS
... on how secure individuals feel. "Promoting financial inclusion is a way to financial security," said Principal Global Investors executive director, head of international offices and CEO Asia Kirk West. "We're looking at gov't systems, employer systems ...

New Forests hires head of sustainability

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 17 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... communications. Stewart comes to New Forests from BNY Mellon Investment Management Asia Pacific, where she was most recently principal, head of communications. Stewart will drive a global communications strategy to grow investor engagement with New Forests' ...

What's in a name: evaluating the goals behind net zero targets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... establishing carbon neutral objectives, but there's no universal definition of what that means yet," said Joey Alcock, principal consultant and chair of the responsible investment group at Frontier Advisors. "For example, there's the basic idea ...

Stakeholders mull impact of Rio Tinto report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... of the working group are considering FPIC as part of that broad purpose, said Alan Dayeh, Point Advisory's Managing Principal, NSW and the chair of the FNPWG. "The application of FPIC is an important piece," Dayeh said. "We're continually improving in ...

Cost of no climate action to hit Australian economy: Report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... we're thinking about our recovery from COVID, but we should really be thinking about what will allow us to thrive," said principal report author, and Deloitte Access Economics lead partner, Pradeep Philip. "We are going to be spending all of this ...

Chronos Sustainability appoints Arisa Kishigami

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... engagement programmes on stewardship and ESG integration. Kishigami writes regularly on global ESG issues and is also a principal facilitator between Japan and the rest of the world as a member of Japan Sustainable Investment Forum (J-SIF) and the Working ...

AAIB, Amundi launch climate investment framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... jeopardises the success of green finance globally. "This is an important wake-up call to the industry," said Stefen Shin, AIIB principal investment officer, capital markets and structured products. "For climate-aligned finance to become mainstream, Asia ...

BNP Paribas issues $140m in equity-linked green bonds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... Watanabe, managing director, head of equity derivatives, Australia. "At the same time, by having the bond portion, the principal is protected. There is the certainty of the fixed coupon, and equity portion is exposed to the upside of the index. The equity ...

Chronos Sustainability hires Ian Woods for strategic Australian/NZ role

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... the Global Coalition for Animal Welfare and the Business Benchmark on Farm Animal Welfare. The firm has also played a principal role in supporting the investment industry's efforts on climate change adaptation and mitigation through its work with the ...