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Brambles reports progress on 2020 sustainability goals

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
Logistics company Brambles has identified key climate-related themes in its annual reporting - a low-carbon advantage, network resilience, and raw material supply security and continuity. Brambles recently announced underlying profit growth of US$795 ...

Cbus Super announces net zero portfolio emissions target

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... look at all future developments in that regard." Cbus has analytical tools to hand to evaluate the data relating to climate risk on portfolios - Fok cited MSCI as one data provider for the equities portfolio. "A lot of the work that we're doing over ...

ACCR files resolutions with BHP, AGL for AGM votes

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... addition to the resolutions we file," he said. "We have reached the point that for some companies that are not managing climate risk particularly well, directors do need to be held accountable." With the high likelihood that the 2020 AGM season will ...

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

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... CEFC. "As the first forward-looking index in the Australian market, it gives investors the capacity to analyse the climate risk profile of their ASX portfolios," Learmonth said. "At the same time, it gives emissions-focused companies access to a greater ...

Bond investor sues Australian government

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... representing Mark McVeigh in his suit against superannuation fund Rest for its alleged failure to address and disclose climate risk appropriately. He has taken on O'Donnell's case on a pro bono basis. O'Donnell made an investment of approximately $1000 ...

J.P. Morgan Asset Management launches ESG integration policy statement

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... priorities will be governance, strategy alignment for the long term, human capital management, stakeholder engagement and climate risk. The Sustainable Investing team collaborated with a working group of 19 senior portfolio managers, research analysts ...

MSCI climate tool provides new data for private real estate assets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
MSCI has launched a new product designed to provide investors with deeper climate risk data around private real estate assets. MSCI Real Estate Climate Value-at-Risk (VaR) provides a forward-looking and return-based valuation assessment to measure climate-related ...

ESG data enhances value strategies: Maple-Brown Abbott

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... she said. "In 2018, I developed a standardised climate change framework, across the three strategies, to understand climate risk. The key differentiator is the scenario analysis, aligned with TCFD analysis." McKean identified three components to the ...

Climate change and public health cannot be viewed in isolation: UNGCNA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... - Atlassian, Dexus, Mirvac, Telstra and Qantas. "Companies that are proactive now in setting strategies to manage climate risk will not only protect their businesses but stand to reap opportunities that will arise as the world transitions to a net zero ...

MSCI launches Real Estate Climate Value-at-Risk solution for investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... Briand, head of ESG at MSCI. "Over this time, we have witnessed increased urgency from investors to quantify their climate risk exposures when constructing and analysing portfolios. The MSCI Climate VaR was developed from MSCI's Climate Risk Center in ...