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US activists target banks over finance to for-profit prisons, detention centres

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2018  |  NEWS
... outreach to shareholders, some are to investors." Engagement with institutional investors is already beginning - the California State Teachers' Retirement System (CalSTRS) has received "hundreds of letters" from members asking the US$225 billion fund ...

Rosenberg Equities to manage $1bn ESG mandate for CalPERS

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUL 2018  |  NEWS
Rosenberg Equities has been appointed by the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) to manage a portfolio of environmental and socially responsible investments. Kathryn McDonald, director of investment strategy, AXA Rosenberg Rosenberg ...

Institutional investors step up engagement as part of Climate Action 100+ initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2018  |  NEWS
... the last six months is more than we ever expected," said Anne Simpson, investment director of sustainability at the California Public Employees' Retirement System, one of the largest U.S. public pension funds with over $349 billion in assets under management. ...

New Forests given award for portfolio of carbon offset projects

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... its website. The award recognizes New Forests' portfolio of more than 19 forest carbon offset projects supplying the California greenhouse gas emissions trading system. New Forests was the first company to register an offset project developed under the ...

Green Bond Pledge launched to increase use of green bond finance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAR 2018  |  NEWS
... than a dozen organisations, including the Climate Bonds Initiative, Mission2020, CERES, CDP, Citizens Climate Lobby, California Governor's Office, California Treasurer's Office, Global Optimism, NRDC and The Climate Group. "When green investments move ...

KPMG event tells companies to consider the "What ifs" of climate risks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 FEB 2018  |  NEWS
If corporate boards are not asking "what if" about climate risk and climate change scenarios, they're not doing their jobs properly. Panel discusses disclosure of climate risk. L-R: Rachel Alembakis, publisher, the Sustainability Report; Adrian King ...

New Forests to sell carbon credits via Emissions Reduction Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 DEC 2017  |  NEWS
... engages in carbon crediting programs in other parts of its portfolio already - it provides forestry offsets in the California emissions trading scheme, and Brand has previously told The Sustainability Report that New Forest has around 450,000 acres of ...

New Forests purchases timberland estate in northern California

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 OCT 2017  |  NEWS
New Forests has purchased a 170,000-acre timberland estate in northern California from Roseburg Resources Co. David Brand, New Forests CEO The properties will be acquired by Shasta Cascade Timberlands LLC, an investment entity managed by New Forests. ...

Community Sector Banking recertified as B Corporation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUN 2017  |  NEWS
... Australia. Community Sector Banking previously won the Best for Communities award at the Best of the Best awards in California in 2016. The awards "recognised companies that scored in the top 10 per cent globally on their B Impact Assessment - the rigorous ...

New Forests expands on forestry sector's role in investment, bio-economy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAY 2017  |  NEWS
... "explored the experience of Native American communities who have enrolled their forests to provide carbon offsets for California's emissions trading scheme," New Forests said. Through its Forest Carbon Partners program, New Forests is currently working ...