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Using natural capital to add to risk, opportunity analysis

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2012  |  NEWS
... just an exercise in spin or re-packaging environmental terms in so-called hard-headed language. It helps us make a critical shift in our thinking, it enables us to think in a much more integrated way about linkages between social, economic and environmental ...

Investors conducting climate change risk assessments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2012  |  NEWS
Institutional investors globally are conducting climate change risk assessments of portfolios, with 26% making changes to their investment strategy or decision-making as a result, according to a Mercer study commissioned by international climate change ...

Australian Ethical management survive general meeting vote

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUN 2012  |  NEWS
... to do. We want to bring about real change as opposed to getting just media attention, and that's really the fundamental shift we have made."

Superannuation funds increasingly act, invest sustainably

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2012  |  NEWS
... towards sustainability in investments and operations by superannuation funds. Despite short term uncertainty over policy shift should the opposition Liberal coalition take government at the next election, the long term reality of climate change is leading ...

Businesses must innovate in response to carbon constraints

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2012  |  NEWS
A carbon-constrained economy presents long-term disruptive change to the business environment that requires innovation to respond with long-term strategies seeking opportunities with new business models, according to Sanjay Sharma, dean of the University ...

CEFC moves to Sydney as industry prepares for its launch

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
As the federal government announced that the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) will be located in Sydney, financial and investment institutions look to the CEFC's form and function as much as its location. The AU$10bn CEFC is expected to commence ...

Fourth Carbon Farming Initiative methodology approved

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... across savannas in the fire prone tropical north of Australia to reduce the area of a project that is burnt each year; and/or shift the seasonality of this burning from the late dry season (LDS) towards the early dry season (EDS)," according to the DCCEE. ...

FTSE launch carbon risk indices for Australia, Europe and Japan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... criteria, rather than historic emissions data. "One of the key elements to avoiding dangerous climate change is that we shift capital flow towards companies that are acting to reduce carbon," said Paul Simpson, chief executive officer, CDP. "These indices ...

CDP: companies put climate change risk into supply chain

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2012  |  NEWS
... the opportunities presented by carbon efficient supply chains," said Frances Way, program director for CDP. "Such a large shift in companies' procurement models is encouraging but since these trends are only now emerging, we are yet to see a transformational ...

Institutional investors put climate change into risk budget

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JAN 2012  |  NEWS
... chemicals. Under that scenario, Australia would rank as one of the five countries most likely to experience the greatest shift in demand and be worst off, along with the US, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and Canada. As part of the study, Mercer outlined ...