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ANZ Bank identifies climate change as component within credit risk, talks TCFD guidelines in 2017 Annual Review

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 NOV 2017  |  NEWS
... Review. ANZ reported $6.9 billion in cash profit, and an 11.9% cash return on equity as well as a 20% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from its premises, against a 2013 baseline. ANZ said in the Annual Review that it has tracked the "average emissions ...

Australian companies developing internal carbon price within the next two years: SBA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 SEP 2017  |  NEWS
... in the next two years. Of the Australian companies providing data to CDP, 60^ have set targets to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, as compared to 85% of companies globally, while 94%have climate change integrated into their business strategy and ...

Globally, few companies can effectively demonstrate climate risk disclosure: SSGA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 AUG 2017  |  NEWS
... engagements with 168 companies over the past four years. SSGA believes it is particularly important for companies in the oil and gas, utilities and mining sectors to demonstrate this capability, given that in those sectors, long investment horizons could ...

UCA Funds Management hires James Cook as director investments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 AUG 2017  |  NEWS
... moving to the UK with Citicorp Scrimgeour Vickers on their Australian equities desk. While in the UK he joined the British Gas Pension Fund as a portfolio manager to start his career in funds management, responsible for the Australian and emerging markets ...

Sustainable Melbourne Fund, ARENA, extend partnership in Victoria

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 AUG 2017  |  NEWS
... funded by EUF are saving Victorian small to medium enterprises $1.5 million per annum, and cutting 5,953 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions. "There are plenty more to come," said Scott Bocskay, SMF CEO. "If you look at the history of EUFs, the vision ...

WA ranks 8th globally in National Resource Governance Institute assessment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 AUG 2017  |  NEWS
... mining sector scores 71 of 100 points and ranks eighth of 89 governing jurisdictions assessed for governance of their oil, gas and mining sectors in the 2017 Resource Governance Index (RGI), conducted by the National Resource Governance Institute (NRGI). ...

CEFC lends $32m for construction of green student accommodation project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 AUG 2017  |  NEWS
... include energy efficient heating, ventilation and air conditioning, energy efficient equipment, LED lighting, centralised gas water heating, water efficient taps and a 25kW rooftop solar photovoltaic system, the CEFC said. Student accommodation developers ...

ASX200 sustainability disclosures improve, but climate-related data needed: ACSI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUL 2017  |  NEWS
... ACSI evaluated companies on three climate-related indicators, finding that 116 ASX200 companies (58%) reported on greenhouse gas emissions in 2016, 88 ASX200 companies (43%) published policy statements acknowledging climate change as a business risk ...

Investors decry decision by United States president to withdraw from Paris Agreement

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUN 2017  |  NEWS
... It is now up to governments to stand by the commitments they made and implement their national plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and respond to the physical impacts of climate change," said Frank Pegan, chief executive officer of Catholic Super ...

CEFC lends $30 million to ResourceCo for conversion of waste into PEF

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAY 2017  |  NEWS
... other fossil fuels. The fuel will initially be used locally, but is also intended to be exported as an alternative to coal and gas for cement kilns in Asia, the CEFC said. "Through this investment with ResourceCo we are demonstrating the ability to use ...