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Video: Fossil Fuel Divestment Exposure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2015  |  NEWS
... standards for fund trustees. Regulations and legislation are changing the way companies and asset owners report on carbon emissions and exposures to future carbon emission liabilities, and more than 30 countries have a price on carbon emission. There ...

Local Government Super top AODP index

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2015  |  NEWS
... asset owners". However, the report also found that only 7% of asset owners in the index have calculated their carbon emissions, 1.4% of asset owners reduced their carbon intensity in the past year, and 2% of asset owners have an emissions intensity reduction ...

Inflection Point CM to launch Carbon Zero fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... Management's Strategically-Aware Investing principles, and will invest in a portfolio of companies that have a net zero carbon emissions output, said Matthew Kiernan, founder and CEO of Inflection Point Capital Management. The fund is designed to meet ...

Supply chain vulnerable to climate change risk: CDP

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... Those countries were reanked on a sustainability risk matrix that combines climate change mitigation strategies, carbon emissions reporting, target setting, emission reduction initiatives, climate risk procedures, uptake of low-carbon energy, water risk ...

ACCR to continue engaging over banks' carbon disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... decided putting an item on Westpac's AGM was not necessary, Le Couteur said. "CBA has undertaken to disclose the carbon emissions initially from their lending to the energy sector and then all their lending," ACCR said in a summation of the 2014 commitments. ...

Combet calls for return of carbon pricing policy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2014  |  NEWS
... Clean Energy Future legislation which brought in the carbon price at AU$23/tonne. Combet said that regulation of carbon emissions is more expensive than cap and trade in carbon emissions. "An alternative policy position is essentially to regulate, to ...

CEFC looks to increase investment in bioenergy projects

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2014  |  NEWS
... sector," Dow said. "CEFC finance is helping accelerate bioenergy projects that reduce energy costs, waste and carbon emissions across sectors including manufacturing, agriculture, horticulture, utilities and local government." The CEFC is capable of ...

RIAA panel discusses tackling ESG duties, opportunities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
... that's not our mandate. Our mandate is to invest and work with companies which are essential to reduction of carbon emissions. We could work with suppliers to power companies. We could work with transport companies - there could be a whole host of things ...

Westpac increases lending to cleantech, enviro services

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
... roles, lending to cleantech and environmental services of AU$8 billion and new commitments around disclosure of carbon emissions as part of its 2014 sustainability report. Siobhan Toohill, Westpac The group reported a 12% increase in net profit to AU$7.561 ...

Too few companies performing water risks assessment: CDP

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
... move towards scoring companies on their management and disclosure of water-related risks, as CDP does with its carbon emissions reports, Lamb said. The ability to provide scoring has been facilitated by the data CDP has generated by previous years' responses ...