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The price of climate change to impact portfolios: BlackRock

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2015  |  NEWS
... serious about this," said Dr Joanna Joanna Nash, research analyst in BlackRock's global Scientific Active Equity team in Sydney. "It's more than just the talking we hear about the politicians, but investors are serious. They're asking us and other fund ...

CDP publishes Aust/NZ climate leaders report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2015  |  NEWS
... that did not respond to CDP's climate change investor information request in 2015 included Westfield Group, Transurban, Sydney Airport, Lend Lease, Coca Cola Amatil, James Hardie Industries, AusNet Services, Bank of Queensland, Harvey Norman, BlueScope ...

Cbus Super hires new investment manager - ESG

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2015  |  NEWS
... and sustainability across a large portfolio." Bradford starts in her role on 16 November and will be located in Cbus's Sydney offices. Cbus is an AU$31 billion industry superannuation fund with more than 720,000 members. See Also: Louise Davidson appointed ...

Business response to climate change "creative self-destruction"

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 OCT 2015  |  NEWS
... when it comes to the business response to climate change, according to a new book. Professor Chris Wright, University of Sydney Business School In Climate Change, Capitalism and Corporations : Processes of Creative Self-Destruction, Professor Christopher ...

Origin Energy endorses We Mean Business commitments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2015  |  NEWS
... Investment Management, Shell, Ricoh, Siemens, Schneider Electric, Swiss Re, UCA Funds Management, Unilever, University of Sydney, Veolia, VicSuper and Westpac. The seven commitments of the We Mean Business coalition: Committed to adopt a science-based ...

CEFC to provide up to $30m financing to City of Melbourne

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2015  |  NEWS
... by 2020, and has a target to source 25% of the municipality's electricity from renewables by 2018." See Also: Melbourne, Sydney join Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance City of Melbourne looks to commercial solar installation

Board skills matrix an assessment opportunity

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2015  |  NEWS
... where there are gaps in skill and diversity. director of the Governance Services Program at the University of Technology, Sydney "The current model is unsustainable because you have an ever-diminishing population of directors," said Dr Ulysses Chioatto ...

Cities increasing uptake of renewable energy: CDP

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2015  |  NEWS
Sydney, Adelaide and Canberra are among a group of global cities to set renewable energy targets, but overall, Latin American and European cities are the least reliant on fossil fuels for electricity, according to a new study by CDP and AECOM. According ...

Victorian government expands EUA legislation statewide

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2015  |  NEWS
... Australia parliament is considering its own version of state-wide legislation. See Also: Eureka Funds Management funds Sydney EUA CEFC commits $30 million to EUA financing fund Expanded EUAs could generate $4.5bn investment in Victoria

Newpin social benefit bond returns 8.9% in second year

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015  |  NEWS
... Australia's first offering and funds the Newpin program run by UnitingCare Burnside, which operates out of four centres in Sydney's west. The program is designed to prevent children entering foster care and improve the rate of children being safely returned ...