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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 ...

NAB Asset Servicing launches Carbon Report product

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 DEC 2016  |  NEWS
... sense and makes things easier for asset owners that want a high level overview of how their managers are integrating carbon risk."

IGCC hails Australian ratification of Paris Agreement

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2016  |  NEWS
... Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC) said that the Paris Agreement sent a "huge market signal" to investors that carbon risk is a financial risk. "This announcement sends an important signal to the world that Australia supports action on climate change," ...

Impax Asset Management analyses environmental impact of portfolio

PIA LEFEVRE  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2016  |  NEWS
... lays because they are not necessarily where the stranded assets are." Impax also recently published their report on Carbon risk for investors: Building a "Smart Carbon portfolio" which focuses on the possibilities of stranded assets related to climate ...

IGCC, others organisations press G20 countries to ratify Paris Agreement

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 AUG 2016  |  NEWS
... and adaptation aims. IGCC supports the re-establishment of the Senate Economics References Committee's Inquiry into Carbon Risk Disclosure. The inquiry began earlier this year, but was interrupted when Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull called the federal ...

Investors should measure climate risks: South Pole Group

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2016  |  NEWS
... specific internal capabilities in the area of climate change, South Pole Group has recommended to the Senate Inquiry on Carbon Risk Disclosure. Max Horster, director financial industry and managing partner climate neutral investments, South Pole Group ...