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Consultant launches responsible investment index for manager selection

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 29 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... surprised at the amount of activity." Evergreen initially started with a pool of 160 funds, but quickly grew out to the current total of more than 270. In the next stages, Evergreen Consulting will build out the granularity of its evaluation, to delve ...

Companies making net zero commitments they need to keep: investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... Task Force for Climate-related Financial Disclosure (TCFD) recommendations Overall, 83 of the focus companies (52 % of the total) assessed have announced an ambition to achieve net-zero by 2050 or sooner. However, roughly half of these commitments (44) ...

Local pick-up a key to reducing emissions in e-commerce: Accenture

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... retailers to adjust their approach to logistics - Accenture's report found last-mile delivery accounts for 53% of the total cost of shipping-and 41% of total supply chain costs. "The carbon footprint of the last mile has long been an environmental ...

ARENA to provide finance for pumped hydro facility

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) will commit financial support for a $777 million pumped hydro plant in Queensland. ARENA has announced it has conditionally approved up to $47 million in funding to support the Genex Power's Kidston ...

What's in a name: evaluating the goals behind net zero targets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... "Certainly, net zero is a key part of the transition plan, and the way we approached it was really to start from the big picture, total portfolio level. We have a number of scenarios, future possible outcomes, such as the International Energy Agency ...

Industry fund sets bar higher with Net Zero timing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... dioxide (CO2), noting that CO2 is by far the largest contributor to greenhouse gases - in 2018 approximately 81% of the total greenhouse gases emitted were carbon dioxide. This is why the fund aims for a "carbon neutral" goal as opposed to a "net zero ...

EISS Super takes on ESG risk analytics with State Street

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... is a global asset owner, we see the whole book," Cheever said. "The asset owner wants to be able to make decisions at a total portfolio level, where they might be able to adjust at that level, while managers only have a small portion of the portfolio. ...

Signs of a "greenium" in bond market: Climate Bond Initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... green bonds are known to attract. The report covers 35 Euro and 19 US dollar denominated benchmark size green bonds with a total value of US$62.5 billion issued during July to December 2020, which CBI calls "a period of rebound in the green bond market." ...

Calculating the social cost of carbon: Dimensional Fund Advisors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
The total cost of future damage caused by greenhouse gas emissions can be used to estimate a price as a basis for generating climate change policy as well as considering impacts on companies, according to Dimensional Fund Advisors. Joseph Chi, head ...

Mars Australia shifts to 100% renewable energy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... using power generated by the Victoria-based Kiamal Solar Farm developed by renewable energy Independent Power Producer (IPP) Total Eren. Kiamal Solar Farm came online this week. "I am proud to announce that we are making the switch to 100% renewable ...