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ANZ in court over climate and nature risk failure

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 9 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... of care and diligence. "This means that, despite a commitment by ANZ in that report that it is aligning its lending portfolio with the goals of the Paris Agreement, it might not have adequate structures in place to do that," Holgersson added. "I'm ...

Australian Ethical backs infrastructure debt funds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 9 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... there is to grow that fund and already financed/contributed to the financing of one wind farm in Queensland and also a portfolio of wind and solar assets that will close in the next month or so. "Our definition of social infrastructure is mainly PPPs ...

Deutsche Bank finances Taiwan's largest offshore wind farm

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 9 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... lead construction and operation. It is Northland's first offshore wind project in Asia, and the fifth in its global portfolio. The power producer made its first move in offshore wind a decade ago with the 600 MW Gemini project in the Netherlands, for ...

"Looming" governance gap as reporting becomes mandatory

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... regulatory risks regarding fast-moving and complex ESG standards and terminology. While most finance executives, lending and portfolio managers, are now regularly being assessed on ESG-linked non-financial key performance indicators (KPIs), firms are ...

Assessing companies ability to make the low carbon transition

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
Investors need to be able to assess companies and countries on their ability to manage the transition to a lower-carbon economy using a range of backward and forward-looking metrics. There is a lack of global standards and definitions around climate ...

Impact investing as greenwashing antidote: T. Rowe Price

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... move towards focusing on companies' products and services." The Global Impact Strategy holds 93 companies in the portfolio and because it excludes fossil fuel companies and most materials companies, it has underperformed wider indices, but Balkrishna ...

Igneo refinances green credit facility

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... Action 1, 2, 3! program supports the team's net zero target, outlining its short and medium-term expectations for portfolio companies. Last year, our pure play renewable energy investments delivered a combined production of over 5.2 TWh of clean ...

Podcast: Going nuclear with Phillip Hudak

THE GREENER WAY  |  THURSDAY, 2 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... nuclear power generation might impact on investors, and the ESG considerations in uranium mining is Phillip Hudak, co-Portfolio Manager, Australian Small Companies, at Maple-Brown Abbott. Global energy markets are entering the "next nuclear renaissance" ...

A portfolio approach for renewable investment: Energetics

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 2 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... enough. Financers and investors should not think about investing in a standalone solar asset but investing in a diverse portfolio that will capture more value in the market. This can be done by being able to dispatch when prices are high at the end of ...

Brookfield ups the ante on Origin by $1.2bn

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 2 NOV 2023  |  NEWS
... the lessons from Octopus to create Australia's leading energy supplier for the long-term"; the retail business and portfolio of storage and renewable development projects and the APLNG assets. Under the terms of the proposed acquisition, Brookfield ...