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Opinion: Mind the gap: Investors continue to stall on climate action, despite sentiment confirming its risks

DAVID KLAUSNER  |  FRIDAY, 20 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... risk considerations into finance and investment decisions. In stark contrast, regulators and policymakers in the United States have done much less to press investor focus on climate change. As a result, less than 20% of North American investors view ...

New Forests hires head of sustainability

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 17 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... carbon projects, rural land and row-cropping, and timber processing in Australia, New Zealand, Southeast Asia and the United States.

Global sustainable investment grows 15%: GSIA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
... proportion of sustainably managed funds at 62% of total AUM, followed by Europe, on 42%, Australasia at 38%, the United States at 33% and Japan on 24%. The report shows the continuing prevalence of sustainable investing across the global investment industry ...

New Forests acquires US timber asset

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 20 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
... business. "We bring this investment and stewardship mindset to our forestry investments in California and across the United States." New Forests is a global investment manager with US$4.5 billion in assets under management across 1 million hectares (2.4 ...

ASX100 ESG underperformers in global manager's crosshairs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 15 APR 2021  |  NEWS
... directors in 14 companies that were identified as R-Factor laggards. Of these, seven companies (50%) were in the United States, five companies (36%) were in the United Kingdom, and two (14%) were in Australia. "We did target companies in Australia, with ...

Calculating the social cost of carbon: Dimensional Fund Advisors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... the appropriate amount of tax, and that's where the social cost of carbon comes in." Dimensional notes that the United States federal and state governments "have been using SCC to quantify the environmental impact of proposed regulations since 2010 ...

Biden inauguration brings climate challenge for Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
With Joseph R. Biden Jr officially becoming the 46 th president of the United States, a series of executive actions have brought the US back to the international table on a number of ESG grounds, with meaningful implications for Australia's economy ...

Considering potential ESG implications of the US election

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... Change, Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change, and Principles for Responsible Investment, have called on the United States to rejoin the Paris Agreement. "[A]ll signatories to the Agreement must fulfill their obligations and step up their climate ...

Data enhances case for ESG as separate, interrelated factor to quality

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... short period to determine if ESG is a factor or not, the change of the regulatory environment is very clear." If the United States, in particular, sets a robust policy framework to manage carbon emissions, it should lead to a rapid impact in that market ...

Majority of Australians want greater action on climate change: Glow

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
The majority of citizens in Australia, New Zealand, the United States, the United Kingdom and Canada want their governments to do more to combat climate change, according to a poll conducted by research platform Glow. Glow recently released its report ...