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Put climate resilience at the core of business strategy: WBCSD

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2019  |  NEWS
... stakeholders, and advocate for climate resilience. "The key focus is on how you begin as a business to build resilience to climate risk," Petersen said. "That's a call to action by business. We will be taking this to government as one of the steps, this ...

Climate change impacts "top of mind" for investors: Nuveen Real Estate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2019  |  NEWS
... estate in some areas that are exposed to hurricane and flooding; largely, our asset selection process has included climate risk screening for quite some time. It means we have tended to select assets that are resilient to those impacts, and making sure ...

MSCI issues guide for investor reporting to TCFD guidelines

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2019  |  NEWS
... strategy around those four sections. It outlines a typical framework - set objectives, identify key dimensions of climate risk, measure portfolio exposure and impact, assess portfolio vulnerability to scenarios, and enhance adaptive capacity. "TCFD provides ...

MSCI Barra purchases data analytics firm Carbon Delta

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 SEP 2019  |  NEWS
... Carbon Delta is a provider of climate change scenario analysis, and MSCI and Carbon Delta "will create an extensive climate risk assessment and reporting offering for the institutional market, providing global investors with solutions to help them better ...

Investment in climate-related opportunities grow: IGCC

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 AUG 2019  |  NEWS
... including Glencore, Rio Tinto, BHP Billiton, Shell and BP as examples of engagement to seek increased resilience to climate risk. "In the absence of clear policies to achieve net zero emissions in line with the Paris Agreement investors are likely to ...

Companies increase ESG reporting, but "glaring gaps" remain: ACSI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2019  |  NEWS
... game, especially the industry leaders in the industries that ted to be more exposed." The ESG report also looked into climate risk-related disclosures, find that the number of companies reporting against the Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosures ...

Regnan reports depth, impact of engagement in 2019

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 AUG 2019  |  NEWS
... individual issues, Regnan noted that 47 engagements discussed the Taskforce for Climate-Related Financial Disclosures on climate risk, and that Regnan has commenced formal engagements around the compliance with the newly introduced Modern Slavery Act. ...

Climate risk necessitates short and long term stress testing: Mercer

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2019  |  NEWS
... physical event which impacts insurance, like natural catastrophes. It could be about greater market awareness of climate risk, it could also could be about the ways in which investors are thinking about scenario probabilities. What our modelling shows ...

Australian Sustainable Finance Initiative sets ambitious investment agenda

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAR 2019  |  NEWS
... to the UK Green Finance Initiative, and the Canadian Expert Panel on Sustainable Finance, which is very much about climate risk, climate change and mobilising capital. Our terms of reference go beyond that. We very intentionally include statements around ...

AASB, AuASB statement raises stakes on disclosure of climate-related risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAR 2019  |  NEWS
... financial statements, said Sarah Barker, special counsel at Minter Ellison. "What is significant is that it places climate risk into the realm of audited financial statements, rather than the narrative of the sustainability report," Barker said. "It ...