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Calculating the social cost of carbon: Dimensional Fund Advisors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... metric that estimates the cost of the future damage caused by each additional tonne of greenhouse gas emissions put into Earth's atmosphere now. SCC estimates are "typically derived from joint models of the climate and the economy, which make assumptions ...

Water, water risk everywhere: DWS

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 7 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... around these thematics." The paper noted that water is a finite resource with only 2.5% potentially being usable for life on earth. Lewis likened measuring water risks to measuring other impacts captured by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). "You ...

Long short strategies used in environmental equities fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... come with climate change and the global transition to a lower carbon economy. The Environmental Absolute Return Thematic (EARTH) equity fund is jointly managed by Edward Lees and Ulrik Fugmann "We try to minimise societies' collective environmental footprint ...

State of the climate report confirms need for climate-aware investing: Future Super

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... 410 ppm in 2019 and the CO 2 equivalent (CO 2 -e) of all greenhouse gases reaching 508 ppm, "the highest levels seen on Earth in at least two million years." "Bushfires, floods and global pandemics are likely to be a part of our lives with climate change ...

Cleanaway publishes first sustainability report after engagement

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
... cents per share. In the sustainability report, the company outlines its PEMAF operating model, which stands for People, Earth, Markets, Assets and Financials. The report is intended to demonstrate where the company is moving in terms of commitments around ...

Investors to develop tool to measure biodiversity impacts

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... IPBES Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services which states that the sixth mass extinction of life on Earth is underway at "an unprecedented pace." The population sizes of mammals, birds, fish, amphibians and reptiles have seen ...

GCNA urges government to focus on sustainability in COVID-19 recovery

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... most vulnerable, but also build coherent policies that are aligned to the context of net zero carbon emissions, a healthier earth in terms of managing nature and also looking after the wellbeing of humans." The 17 SDGs are an internationally agreed framework ...

Insure Our Future calls for halt to insuring oil and gas projects

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... coalition of NGOs including 350.org, ClientEarth (UK), Foundation Development YES - Open-Pit Mines NO (Poland), Friends of the Earth France, Greenpeace, Instituto Internacional de Derecho y Medio Ambiente (Spain), Japan Center for a Sustainable Environment ...

Four structural challenges for business to navigate post-lockdown: PGIM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... regular a feature supply chain disruptions are, how scarce the materials are - if, for example, if you're talking about rare earth materials mined in dodgy places, from an investor perspective, you may be willing to trade off cost efficiency for a little ...

Evidence links ESG performance to company, fund performance in crisis

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2020  |  NEWS
... to climate change, And noted "what we learned form the virus is a humbling reminder that we remain at the mercies of the earth's systems." In evaluating fund managers in Mercer's Global Investment Manager Database (GIMD) that are evaluated as being ESG ...