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ESG concerns a challenge for mining projects: MSCI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2015  |  NEWS
... company reputation. Going further down the value chain, the ESG concerns over gas and coal projects have impacts on the banks that finance projects. "The banks are obviously an intermediary," Vernon said. "They're tied to the success of the local economy ...

Court back Commonwealth Bank in ACCR case

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2015  |  NEWS
... place after AGL Energy. See Also: ACCR to lodge carbon disclosure resolutions for AGL AGM ACCR to continue engaging over banks' carbon disclosure

NCD launches Soft Commodities Forest-risk Assessment Tool

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2015  |  NEWS
... study of 30 financial institutions, Bank and Investor Risk Policies for Soft Commodities, and highlighted the polices that banks and investors can adopt to mitigate deforestation and forest degradation "resulting from unsustainable practices across agricultural ...

ACCR to lodge carbon disclosure resolutions for AGL AGM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2015  |  NEWS
... is a month after AGL, giving the group time to consider its options. Last year, ACCR campaigned to get the four largest banks - National Australia Bank (NAB), Westpac, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, and ANZ Bank - to improve their disclosure around ...

Swiss Re hedges wind risk for Infigen Energy wind farms

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2015  |  NEWS
... volatile earnings because of low output, wind farms can potentially access lower costs to debt financing, Summons noted. "Banks, I think it's fair to say, they struggle with getting across the risks to wind farms," he said. "What we're hopeful to see ...

ANZ to partner with AWA in SE Asia program

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2015  |  NEWS
... commodity sectors in ways that other assets do not, noted Christina Tonkin, ANZ managing director of global loans and advisory. "Banks are structured along particular industry lines," Tonkin said. "You'll have property, resources, and within that you'll ...

ANZ issues $600m green bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2015  |  NEWS
... around 21% to insurance companies, and then the rest was split between other accounts - 7% went to middle market, 6% went to banks, 3% went to councils, 3% to central banks, 3% to semi-government banks, 1% to private banks. Some of the orders were quite ...

Teachers Mutual Bank win AB +F ESG award

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2015  |  NEWS
... years in a row. "It is a great honour to again receive this award, in a field that includes some of Australia's biggest banks," said Steve James, Teachers Mutual Bank CEO. "Sustainability is embedded in who we are as a bank, what we do and why we do ...

Vote Your Pension platform calls for global member action

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2015  |  NEWS
... Australian Centre for Corporate Responsibility's campaign to introduce climate change resolutions at the AGMs of the big four banks in Australia last year, Poulter noted. One of the other aims of the Vote Your Pension campaign is to shed further light ...

New Forests launches responsible investment policy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 APR 2015  |  NEWS
... under management, and manages 395,000 hectares of certified plantation forests as well as wetland and stream mitigation banks and forest carbon offset projects. The manager has four main vehicles - the Australia New Zealand Forest Fund (ANZFF) and the ...