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

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAR 2019  |  NEWS
... and the federal Senate Standing Committee on Economies regarding the expectations around the disclosure of material carbon risk and particularly the use of the Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) as a useful framework for measurement ...

Investec Asset Management launches Global Environment Strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2019  |  NEWS
... build up a database with the consultant to try and infer scope 3 in similar sectors, to get an idea what the real carbon risk is to a portfolio. Once you've worked out what the carbon risk is, which is huge, probably 90% of the MSCI world is really scope ...

Human rights, trust, climate risk top sustainability agenda for 2019

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2019  |  NEWS
With the closing of January and the end to summer holidays, sustainability professionals and investors are gearing up for another busy year ahead, with experts telling The Sustainability Report that first year of the Modern Slavery Act, wider human ...

ASX adds social license to operate, TCFD to corporate governance guide

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 14 MAY 2018  |  NEWS
... disclose environmental and social sustainability risks, including social license to operate and greater guidance on carbon risk. Louise Davidson, ACSI CEO The ASX Corporate Governance Council is consulting for the updated fourth edition of its Corporate ...

Government finds no legislative barriers to implementing TCFD

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... Barker, special counsel, Minter Ellison Lawyers Last year, the Senate Standing Committee on Economies issued its report, Carbon risk: a burning issue, which recommended "that government commit to implementing the recommendations of the Financial Stability ...

IGCC annual conference discusses managing climate change risk, solutions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 OCT 2017  |  NEWS
... sustainable investing approaches, as well as separate managed accounts (SMAs) that have broad-market appraochs to managing carbon risk in Austraila. By comparison, In the US, Mercer has identified 55 unit trusts that are fossil fuel free or have a strong ...

Considering the first 20 years of the Global Reporting Initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 SEP 2017  |  NEWS
... increase focus on risks and opportunities related to a transition to a lower carbon economy. "When you're talking about carbon risk reporting, the guidance published a few months ago by the TCFD is the best guidance available on carbon and climate reporting ...

ANZ, NAB join initiative to pilot Task force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUL 2017  |  NEWS
... committed to making sure we have reliable and standardised information to guide our reporting - we made a commitment to carbon risk disclosure in 2015 and our work with the UN Environment is another example of this commitment." The goal of the initiative ...

Will Australia adopt the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures recommendations?

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUN 2017  |  NEWS
... at some point be applied by some agency somewhere." A recent report by the Senate Standing Committee on Economies, Carbon risk: a burning issue, recommended "that government commit to implementing the recommendations of the Financial Stability Board ...

Directors, senior executives have obligation to consider climate change: Norton Rose Fulbright

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 APR 2017  |  NEWS
... Investment Commission (ASIC) last month at a Senate Economics References Committee public hearing for an inquiry into carbon risk disclosure. The report was issued late on Friday of this week. In ASIC's oral statement by joint senior executive Kate O'Rourke ...