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Super boards can add value with ESG focus: BNP Paribas

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2015  |  NEWS
... you create an environment to allow diversity to flourish. It can't be nominalism, but action followed through with some shift in numbers." Meanwhile, respondents also told BNP Paribas and AIST that another strong theme was a "board that focusses on ESG ...

Investors consider corporate pay links to climate change goals

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2015  |  NEWS
... types of investments, you can seek to ensure that climate change risks are being factored in, and that's likely to drive the shift to decarbonising the shift within that stock." Several diversified mining companies are demonstrating that they are considering ...

Early stages for ESG-factor investing: Northern Trust

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2015  |  NEWS
... that's still, I think, in the research/understanding mode versus execution/implementation. There's still not a wholesale shift out, and we're still at the edges from an investor perspective." Northern Trust has formally established an asset management ...

Decarbonising economy requires sophisticated investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2015  |  NEWS
Divesting from the worst emitting fossil fuels is only one step towards decarbonising the world economy, and Australian Ethical Investment says achieving the stated goal of capping global temperature increases to 2 degrees C requires a "sophisticated ...

BNP Paribas launches ESG reporting tool

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2015  |  NEWS
BNP Paribas Securities Services has launched a tool that will provide environmental, social and governance (ESG) data for customised reporting purposes. Madhu Gayer, head of Asia Pacific investment reporting and performance, BNP Paribas Securities Services ...

Experts warn of trustees' climate change litigation risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2015  |  NEWS
... been aware of the risk." But even if there isn't a global commitment and concomitant target to cut emissions globally, the shift in energy consumption is presenting a risk to some fossil fuel assets that trustees must also bring into consideration, said ...

ACCSR tracks Australian/NZ progress towards CSR innovation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2015  |  NEWS
... value for the organisation and for society without an innovation. The survey confirms for us the fact that there has been a shift in Australia towards embracing the concept of shared value and getting more value from CSR from both business and the stakeholders." ...

Experts evaluate ERF baseline mechanism

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 APR 2015  |  NEWS
... need those credits to cover their above-baseline emissions. The main thing here, if you take that approach, is that you shift the funding burden from the public sector via the ERF to the private sector - the above-baseline emitters who have to buy the ...

Mirvac integrates sustainability in "place-making" thinking

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
Property developer and manager Mirvac is applying its sustainability strategy to their role in "place making" when building retail, residential and commercial developments. Paul Edwards, group general manager sustainability, Mirvac In January 2014 ...

Investors consider ESG in alternative assets: Mercer

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2015  |  NEWS
... environmental and social trends. It can also put investors in a better position to take advantage of opportunities arising from a shift towards more sustainable economic growth."