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Evidence links ESG performance to company, fund performance in crisis

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2020  |  NEWS
... in a crisis." The equity and fixed income securities issued by companies at the top of Fidelity's sustainability rating scale, receiving an A or B score under Fidelity's proprietary ESG rating system on average outperformed those with average (C) and ...

Property Council of Australia develops platform for modern slavery data

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2020  |  NEWS
... almost always in a better place." Acting as a collaborative group also allows the property sector to use its economies of scale to work with suppliers domestically and internationally to improve their practices around modern slavery. Informed 365 is ...

Sustainable Australia Fund on COVID-19 impacts, upgrade finance outlook

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2020  |  NEWS
The Sustainable Australia Fund (SAF) is working with stakeholders in the environmental upgrade finance chain to respond to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on industry across the country. Scott Bocskay, CEO, Sustainable Melbourne Fund SAF works ...

Green tech can fuel net-zero transition, stimulus: ClimateWorks Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2020  |  NEWS
... deployment with material and demonstrated technologies, so that means that there will be a lot of policy support to enter the scale needed. It means policy across all sectors and it means really looking at accelerating implementation beyond business ...

Cromwell Property Group reports on sustainability progress for 2019

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2020  |  NEWS
... Estate Sustainability Benchmark (GRESB) score of 86/100, including a governance score of 91/100, and a rating of AA (on a scale of AAA-CCC) in the 2019 MSCI ESG Ratings assessment, classifying it as an industry 'Leader', two rankings that Cromwell point ...

Calix outlines case for carbon capture and storage in cement and lime

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2020  |  NEWS
... CO2 from other emissions, which would then be ready to integrate with a storage solution, Hodgson said. "It's only pilot scale - about 5% of the throughput of a standard large cement plant," Hodgson said. "The technology has some scale-up to do, we need ...

Taskforce recommends government support to build social impact investing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... Through the establishment of a social impact investing wholesaler, the government has the immediate opportunity to drive scale by making a one-time investment in a game-changing initiative. Designed as a catalytic, independent institution, with impact ...

Genex Power closes $192 million certified green debt funding package

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 DEC 2019  |  NEWS
... Market (NEM) at spot price, allowing JSP to collect revenue in the form of the sale of electricity and the sale of Large-scale Generation Certificates (LGCs). Genex noted that Jemalong "has an operational asset life of 30 years and utilises well-known ...

Investing in insurance linked securities, integrating climate risk: Amundi

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2019  |  NEWS
... risk into a security vehicle, so the performance of a security is highly driven by the occurrence/non-occurrence of large scale natural disaster," said Chin Liu, SVP, director of insurance linked securities and quantitative research. "It is fundamentally ...

GRI launches tax reporting standard for comprehensive disclosure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2019  |  NEWS
... in tax transparency and provides a much-needed and ambitious framework for corporate tax reporting." GRI estimates of the scale of tax avoidance, in terms of lost revenue to governments, have ranged between US$500-600 billion annually, citing UNU-WIDER ...