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PRI augments Australian team with hires

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 31 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... PRI's APAC policy work. Wiseman, a lawyer by training, joins PRI from ClientEarth, London, where he worked on the Climate Finance Initiative, using the law to drive corporate and financial decision-makers to address climate change-related risks ...

Oxfam Australia calls for stronger climate action amid GDP risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUN 2021  |  NEWS
... relating to climate change, Bungcaras added. "That would be in addition to the $100 billion per year global target on climate finance, and this is something we haven't seen developed countries engaging meaningfully within the [United Nations Framework ...

Social, economic consequences of climate change "devastating": Robeco

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... emitting carbon as such, but that's not a total measure of the carbon exposure of the company." While research on climate finance is rapidly gaining momentum, issues regarding data availability and questions concerning suitable research methods remain. ...

AAIB, Amundi launch climate investment framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... mitigation, adaptation and low-carbon and climate resilient development objective." AAIB and Amundi say there is a climate finance investment gap that is limiting the integration of climate change by companies and the financial sector across Asia, which ...

HKEX, SSGA join Climate Bond Initiative Partners Programme

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... investment," according to the Climate Bond Initiative. Partners assist in developing initiatives to grow investment in climate finance solutions, participate in different market development committees and help define policy agendas for sector, country ...

CCA publishes climate policy toolkit for transition to net-zero economy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2020  |  NEWS
... policy toolkit for Australia. "Australia's large and highly sophisticated funds management industry and growing climate finance capacity mean we are well placed to become a major investor in low-emissions opportunities and a green finance hub for the ...

Global issuance of green bonds tops $100 billion to date in 2019

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2019  |  NEWS
... "Reaching US$100 billion in green issuance for the third time and so early in the year is welcome; however, the global climate finance challenge is to reach a US$ 1 trillion in annual green investment early in the 2020s," Kidney said. "The EU TEG process ...

Man Group appoints Jason Mitchell co-head of responsible investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2018  |  NEWS
... Group since 2010. Mitchell also serves on the Advisory Board of Imperial College Business School's Centre for Climate Finance and Investment, and is a member of the PRI Academic Advisory Committee, the PRI Macroeconomic Risk Advisory Committee, the Investment ...

Climate Bonds Initiative analyses bond issuance from second quarter 2017

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 NOV 2017  |  NEWS
... investor diversification remain among the most talked about topics for green bonds," said Peer Stein, global head of climate finance, Financial Institutions Group - IFC. "With this second publication in a joint series with the Climate Bonds Initiative ...

International Finance Corporation launches NZ dollar-denominated green bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 AUG 2017  |  NEWS
... demonstrates the continued and expanding role of capital markets in mobilizing international savings to help close the climate finance gap," Monish Mahurkar, said IFC director for treasury market operations. He added, "As of July 2017, IFC has issued ...