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Institutional investors step up engagement as part of Climate Action 100+ initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2018  |  NEWS
... significant opportunities to accelerate the transition directly at the regional and global level and help achieve the goal of the Paris Agreement of limiting global warming to well below two- degrees Celsius. We welcome the leadership ambitions that ...

IGCC, global investors urge G7 to step up game on Paris Agreement

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUN 2018  |  NEWS
... institutional investors from around the world have urged G7 governments to step up their actions to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement, support investment in the low-carbon transition and improve climate-related financial disclosures. Emma Herd ...

Cement companies need to "more than double" emissions reductions: CDP

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... largest cement companies need to more than double their emissions reductions or risk missing the two degree target of the Paris Agreement, according to new CDP analysis. (Image courtesy CDP) CDP has published Building Pressure, and found that the 13 ...

Climate Disclosure Standards Board issues TCFD aligned framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... how resilient their strategies are to material environment risks associated with a 2C or lower scenario, in line with the Paris Agreement and all the requirements stemming from it." "The past decade has seen a fast-changing landscape for climate and ...

BHP Billiton to maintain membership in US Chamber of Commerce

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... Commerce is known as the worst of the worst, rank client deniers, and they campaigned for the Trump Administration to leave the Paris Agreement, and we consider that it is not in shareholder interests, no matter how good they are at campaigning for free ...

Green Bond Pledge launched to increase use of green bond finance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAR 2018  |  NEWS
... be widely sought from cities, municipal authorities and corporations. The Green Bond Pledge reinforces the goals of the Paris Agreement and is "based on the premise that public and private sector bonds financing long-term infrastructure and capital projects ...

Local Government Super co-files ACCR-organised Rio Tinto shareholder resolution

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAR 2018  |  NEWS
... industry groups "whose energy and climate change policy stance seems entirely contrary to Rio's stated formal commitment to the Paris Climate Change Agreement." "We feel that it's important to be an active owner and with that you need to demonstrate ...

NAB issues Australian residential mortgage-backed bond with green tranche

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 FEB 2018  |  NEWS
... Buildings criteria requires residential buildings to meet a net zero carbon emissions trajectory, aligned with the goals of the Paris Agreement to limit global warming to no more than two degrees above pre-industrial levels, the CEFC noted. This is not ...

New Forests to sell carbon credits via Emissions Reduction Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 DEC 2017  |  NEWS
... second rotation of timber now is viable." Forestry and forestry products have become more desirable assets in the wake of the Paris Agreement's 2-degree C target, Brand said. "The forestry sector will be able to start expanding again," he said. "Not ...

CDP issues 2017 Climate Change Report for Australia/New Zealand companies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 DEC 2017  |  NEWS
... said. These targets provide frameworks within which companies can plan for the reductions needed to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement, CDP said. CDP also reported on water risks and actions. This year, 23 Australia/NZ companies responded to CDP's ...