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

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUN 2017  |  NEWS
... to come from a much stronger framework for standards for reporting risk management for the financial sector across climate risk," said Andrew Petersen, CEO of Sustainable Business, and World Business Council for Sustainable Development Australian Network ...

Majority of largest asset owners recognise risk of climate change: AODP

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 APR 2017  |  NEWS
... owners do this, almost twice as many as last year. Meanwhile, 68% of asset managers have staff focused on integrating climate risk into their investment, and 18% of asset owners have dedicated staff, a third more than last year. Twenty percent of asset ...

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

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 APR 2017  |  NEWS
... they should conduct stress testing for "organisational and systemic resilience in the face of adverse shocks" from climate risk, as part of APRA's evolving view on climate risks as part of the agency's "broader approach to prudential risk management ...

Experts discuss impact of Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosures guidelines

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 APR 2017  |  NEWS
... they should conduct stress testing for "organisational and systemic resilience in the face of adverse shocks" from climate risk, as part of APRA's evolving view on climate risks as part of the agency's "broader approach to prudential risk management ...

Chart: CDP assessment of APRA-regulated entities' climate disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 APR 2017  |  NEWS
As APRA regulated entities digest the implications of Geoff Summerhayes' recent speech, The Sustainability Report asked CDP for the scores of ASX-listed companies in the financial sector as a means to determine which companies are publicly disclosing ...

APRA calls for stress-testing of climate change risks in regulated entities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2017  |  NEWS
... they should conduct stress testing for "organisational and systemic resilience in the face of adverse shocks" from climate risk. Sarah Barker, special counsel, Minter Ellison Lawyers Speaking to the Insurance Council of Australia Annual Forum in Sydney ...

Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures release draft guidance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2016  |  NEWS
... perspective." Herd noted that the TCFD was an industry-led body, signalling the global support for enhanced disclosure of climate risk by business and investors. IGCC submitted recommendations to the TCFD during the drafting of the guidances. "One of ...

Investors discuss investing in two degree world at RIAA conference

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 DEC 2016  |  NEWS
Institutional investors are taking active approaches to managing climate risks and shape their portfolios to fit the commitments of the Paris Agreement, including targets and commitments put in place to help mitigate risk and seek risk-adjusted return ...

IGCC, investor groups issue updated guide for oil and gas industry

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2016  |  NEWS
... gas companies. The Global Investor Coalition have also published Institutional Investors' Expectations of Corporate Climate Risk Managemen t, which deals with climate risk issues more broadly.

IGCC hails Australian ratification of Paris Agreement

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2016  |  NEWS
... (AIGCC), the European Institutional Investor Group on Climate Change (IIGCC) and the North American Investor Network on Climate Risk (INCR), a project of Ceres, have published Investors Got the Signal: Actions in 2016 since the Paris Agreement, a snapshot ...