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MSCI creates Climate Change Indexes tilted to low carbon transition

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2019  |  NEWS
... underlying benchmark. The Indexes also help to reduce exposure to stranded assets with 50 percent lower exposure to thermal coal and four times less exposure to companies with carbon intensive products than the underlying index, MSCI said. The indexes ...

Legg Mason launches QS Investors Global Responsible Investment Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2019  |  NEWS
... include tobacco, gambling, alcohol, defence and weapons, fur, genetically modified crops, nuclear energy, oil sands and thermal coal. "QS Investors has an excellent long-term track record in the management of global equity portfolios," Sowerby said. ...

Climate risk necessitates short and long term stress testing: Mercer

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2019  |  NEWS
... give ourselves just a 50% chance of limiting warming by 2100, we need to hit peak emissions next year, we need to phase out coal use and transition to 50% electric vehicles in the next 30 years. A key conclusion to address those challenges in the research ...

QBE joins Business Council for Sustainable Development Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2019  |  NEWS
... change," said Andrew Petersen, CEO of BCSD Australia. QBE recently committed to withdrawing from insurance services for thermal coal customers by 2030, and it is part of the newly created Australia Sustainable Finance Initiative (ASFI). "The sustainability ...

BNP Paribas Asset Management launches global sustainability strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAR 2019  |  NEWS
... all open-ended funds. BNPP AM cited a recently published tighter exclusion policy on companies engaged in mining thermal coal and generating electricity from coal. Going forward, in 2020, BNPP AM will introduce measurement and reporting on the impact ...

Climate change high on agenda for Oliver Yates parliamentary bid

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2019  |  NEWS
Climate change will be one of the most pressing issues of the forthcoming federal election, no more so than in the Melbourne electorate of Kooyong, where former Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) CEO Oliver Yates is running as an independent challenger ...

Human rights, trust, climate risk top sustainability agenda for 2019

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2019  |  NEWS
... its 2018 AGM with a shareholder resolution on climate risk disclosure and was criticized for underwriting and investing in coal." There is new urgency to the task that is felt by the business community, Black of Deloitte said. "I think that business ...

Core Civic, GEO Group flagged for ESG controversies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2018  |  NEWS
Core Civic and GEO Group, two companies at the heart of an organised grassroots campaign against US President Donald Trump's policy of immigrant detention, have been flagged for controversies under MSCI 's ESG ratings system. For the US grassroots groups ...

Sustainable Business Australia names John Hewson chair

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2018  |  NEWS
Sustainable Business Australia has announced that Dr John Hewson will be the organisation's new chair-elect to its board. Andrew Petersen, CEO, Sustainable Business Australia "Dr Hewson joining Sustainable Business Australia as chair comes at crucial ...

40% of Chinese Coal Power Plants are Losing Money: Carbon Tracker

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 16 OCT 2018  |  NEWS
Nearly half of China's coal power stations are making losses, and their owners could save "nearly US$390 billion by closing plants in line with the Paris Climate Agreement," according to an innovative new study by Carbon Tracker, Matthew Gray, Carbon ...