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Bank, state government become first buyers of Reef Credits

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
... economic value of the Great Barrier Reef to Australia," said Hamish Kelly, head of global banking, Australia at HSBC. "Nature-based solutions are important in the transition to net zero carbon and partnerships like this - between governments, the private ...

Social issues and climate dominate engagement: SSGA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
... return, signified by the number of resolutions being brought to company AGMs around the world, Colton said. "We saw that the nature of the proposals continue to evolve, and disclosure continues to improve around the way the companies are thinking about ...

Regulator appoints first head of climate risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
... board member, made a landmark speech in which he emphasised "[s]ome climate risks are distinctly 'financial' in nature. Many of these risks are foreseeable, material and actionable now. Climate risks also have potential system-wide implications ...

Investors to develop tool to measure biodiversity impacts

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... quantifies the impact on biodiversity of corporate across their activities. The tool will help investors to integrate impacts to nature and biodiversity into their risk assessments and research. The tool is also being designed to positively contribute ...

Woolworths commits to ambitious GHG emissions cuts

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... refrigeration leakage to 26% below 2015 levels.? The SBTi is a collaboration between the UN Global Compact, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), CDP and the World Resources Institute, designed to drive corporate climate action and independently assess ...

ESG scores linked to higher stock valuation: Bank of America

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... Europe Stoxx600 earnings per share by 2- 22%. "If you make a product in France, the product will still be green by its nature, b/c the electricity is low carbon," he explained. "If you make the same product in India or Australia, the product ends up ...

Ardea, UTS partnership to bring AI to fixed income analysis

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... sustainability bonds. "Sustainability-linked bonds have been in the press lately, but the mechanisms are quite simplistic in their nature," Richards noted. "We can look at not just the quantitative aspects of that, or what data do we use to analyse them ...

Investors welcome Rio resignations

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... results of meetings will inform how the fund could use shareholder resolutions or voting to seek change, HESTA said. "The nature of these agreements and how they are negotiated represents a systemic risk for investors that will not be mitigated by executive ...

Substantial investment needed for sustainable infrastructure: RARE Infrastructure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... "That's a positive. I think that support would have come over time, but COVID has accelerated that. The flip side is the nature of some of that spend is less on large strategic assets, more on stimulating economies and that will result in a larger ...

GreenCollar secures funding for Queensland carbon farming projects

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... portfolio for a little while now, and there are a number of biodiversity benefits, and water benefits using the Accounting for Nature guidelines." GreenCollar operates by forming joint ventures with landowners or investing into projects directly, Schultz ...