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Uptick in web application attacks on financial institutions: Imperva

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 19 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... functions at an organisation and can pose a risk to data, Wilson said. DDoS attacks aim to overwhelm server resources by flooding a server with so much traffic in the form of requests to connect until it is no longer capable of responding. The higher ...

Extreme weather, human rights intensifying ESG focus: Janus Henderson

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
... markets. "Previously, when I did TCFD analysis, I would be looking at a company in terms of natural disasters such as flooding/hurricanes/tornadoes," Seery said. "I've had to include wildfires in my analysis. That's made a massive difference ...

HSBC, partners to identify blue carbon projects

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAY 2021  |  NEWS
... opportunities in areas such as increasing carbon sequestration, creating new fish habitats and improve resilience to flooding and rising sea levels. The particular area of NSW was selected for the project because of a combination of factors, including ...

APAC investors ahead of North America on climate action: PGIM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAY 2021  |  NEWS
... lining," he says. "They're recognising not just the most obvious risks around climate change, such as in real assets, where flooding can have a real impact on asset value, but also the opportunities around the transition to the green economy. Approximately ...

State of the climate report confirms need for climate-aware investing: Future Super

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... said Kirstin Hunter, co-founder and CEO of Future Super. "In terms of greater fire threat, changes to rainfall, likely flooding, continuing ocean warming, those affects are happening sooner than we expected and are likely to stick around unless we take ...

Climate change to bring more frequent, intense weather: IAG

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... resulting in more frequent and severe flash floods. The east coast of Australia will be particularly vulnerable to flash flooding and fast response river flooding due to this expected increase in intense rainfall coupled with increased impacts from east ...

Identifying climate change risks in investment analysis

AGNIESZKA COCHRANE  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... Physical risks: Physical risks relate to changes in the frequency and severity of extreme weather events such as heatwaves, flooding, drought, cyclones as well as longer-term impacts such as coastal inundation and chang-es in precipitation patterns ...

Integrating ESG essential to infrastructure portfolio: First Sentier Investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2019  |  NEWS
... 20, you don't want homes without heating. "Other parts of Europe and UK, where there's clearly evidence of increased flooding, we've build some assets above ground, such elevated transformers which have been raised to three, four 4 metres above ground. ...

Climate change impacts "top of mind" for investors: Nuveen Real Estate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2019  |  NEWS
... assuring how buildings are future-proof." Nuveen notes that the physical impacts of climate change - droughts, bushfires, flooding and extreme temperatures - "have significant potential to affect the demand for real estate and to also have a detrimental ...

Mining sector showing "signs of progress" on emissions management, face continued risk: CDP

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUL 2017  |  NEWS
... caused torrential rain in the Bowen Basin of Queensland where BHP, Glencore, Anglo American and Rio Tinto operate. Severe flooding disrupted production for over six months, causing output from the region to fall by a third. In 2013, Cyclone Oswald hit ...