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Climate Bond Standard launches shipping criteria for bonds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... introduction of the shipping criteria to the Climate Bonds Standard opens up another science-based investment pathway for capex to be applied in this sector and delivers a range of positive environmental impacts." The shipping criteria were developed ...

Green loans in "nascent" stage: Climate Bonds Initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
... transition strategies come to the fore from institutional investors and are increasingly embedded in company business models and capex plans." The first green loan in the region came from New Zealand's power utility Contact Energy, in August 2017 ...

Carbon emissions need to peak "as soon as possible": AXA IM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... companies, rather than fossil companies, for instance, and to insist and to insist and strengthen expectations in terms of capex and investment that can be done in the renewable energy domain." On the demand side, Moret noted that since 1990 three sectors ...

Questions raised over governance implications of share buyback schemes

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 APR 2020  |  NEWS
... crisis, particularly of this magnitude," he said. Share buyback schemes in the US were not funded primarily by reductions to capex or R&D spend, but rather funded by debt, Marshall noted. "If a company is borrowing to buy-back its own shares, that equation ...

Analysis: climate change, Australia and the fierce urgency of now

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... said. "If all reserves on the books get burnt, we blow our carbon budget many times over. We need a presumption against capex going into new reserves. The third policy position is to assertively discourage any fossil fuel expansion by services companies ...

Global issuance of green bonds tops $100 billion to date in 2019

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUN 2019  |  NEWS
... Taxonomy provide across broad sectors of the real economy, opens the door to brown-to-green transition of corporate assets and capex programs, and for banks and insurance companies to sizeably increase the availability of green capital," Kidney said. ...

Examining the corporate governance implications of share buybacks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... fewer the next year - buybacks are a more flexible form of capital return." Marshall noted that there has been a decline in capex spending and an increase in share buybacks during the period of analysis, pointing out that in 2015, a higher percentage ...

CDP: investment in carbon reduction yields positive return

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
... of the world's largest polluters have set emissions targets. "Those that do have targets invested an average of 1.3% of capex (versus 1.1% in 2012) while those without targets allocated a negligible 0.08% of capex (versus 0.09% in 2012)," CDP said. "Compared ...

IIRC asks investors to critique pilot integrated reports

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... description of the business model, uncertainty about the timeframes linked to strategies and targets, failure to separate growth capex from maintenance capex." Investors generally reported that the sample reports offered a "solid foundation" for understanding ...

ESG factors impact on private equity valuation, dealmaking

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... appetite to do a deal," accord to the report. Respondents further said that ESG issues were assessed as part of the overall CAPEX and OPEX, and their materiality depended on the size of then deal. "This report shows why ESG considerations should be a ...
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