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Local Government Super leader on managing climate risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2012  |  NEWS
... global climate investment index ranking the world's largest institutional asset owners on how they invest to manage climate risk. Australia's Local Government Super (LGS) was ranked the top institutional asset onwer for its transparency and management ...

Investor groups call for new climate change policy responses

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
... with the European Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC), the North American Investor Network on Climate Risk (INCR), the Asia Investor Group on Climate Change (AIGCC) and the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP ...

Australian infrastructure underprepared for climate change

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... the government side, the report said that government policy is fragmented, lacking a national approach to managing climate risk to major infrastructure, with policy implementation left ot local councils "the least resourced and most decentralised level ...

Trustees exposed to legal risk over climate change impacts

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... obligations are." The AODP said that it wrote to the world's largest 1,000 funds in July, seeking disclosures of climate risk strategies. Few funds have responded as of the publication of their report. Pension funds around the world must reprice high ...

Low Carbon Australia joins Climate Bond Standard group

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... investment be made available by the end of 2012. According to Kirsten Spalding at the Ceres Investor Network for Climate Risk, investor interest on energy efficiency in buildings has being stymied by: "First, the absence of aggregation mechanisms for ...

Investors conducting climate change risk assessments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
... ( IGCC), the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC), and the North American Investor Network on Climate Risk (INCR). Despite the majority of respondents viewing climate change as a material risk, the survey also finds that asset owners ...

Investors call for management of fugitive methane emissions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... IGCC, the European Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC) and the North American Investor Network on Climate Risk (INCR) will work with the Carbon Disclosure Project to develop the framework by October of this year, and are calling on ...

Working group to develop Sharia-compliant green securities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... Office, the Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC), the Carbon Disclosure Project, and the Ceres Investor Network on Climate Risk (INCR). It has an industry working group to provide advice into the eligibility criteria - the working group includes International ...

IGCC and others launch second global investor survey

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... with the European Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC) and the North American Investor Network on Climate Risk (INCR), launched the 2012 Global Investor Survey on Climate Change, which will assess institutional investors' response ...

Institutional investors put climate change into risk budget

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
More than half of the 12 institutional investors that participated in a 2011 Mercer climate change survey have decided to include climate change considerations in future risk management and/or strategic asset allocation processes. Through the Looking ...