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Universities "fail" on climate risk mitigation: AODP

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... backwardness." No university received a rating above BB on the GUI. The top universities were all in the US - University of California was first, with Unity College and Green Mountain College second and third. Sterling College, College of the Atlantic ...

Five investors join initiative to grow green bond market

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 DEC 2014  |  NEWS
... Bonds, joining existing signatories ACTIAM, Aviva Investors, BNP Paribas Investment Partners, Zurich Insurance Group, California Teachers' State Retirement Systems (CalSTRS), Mirova, Natixis Asset Management, Pax World Management and the Swedish National ...

AMP Capital assesses ESG risks in food, beverage sector

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2014  |  NEWS
... tax on high-calorie food and a peso per litre tax on sugar-sweetened drinks in 2013, and the US city of Berkeley in California, which recently became the first US city to pass a tax on sugary drinks. "A lot of companies are in denial, and that's one ...

Investors commit to growing green bond market

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... AP2/ Andra AP-Fonden, AP3/Tredje AP-Fonden, AP4/ Fjarde AP-Fonden, Aviva Investors, BNP Paribas Investment Partners, California Teachers' State Retirement System (CalSTRS), Mirova, Natixis Asset Management, Pax World Management, and Zurich Insurance ...

ARENA invests in Sunverge Energy via venture capital fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... with the Australian Government's $100 million commitment matched by SBCVC, ARENA said. Sunverge Energy is based in California.

IIGCC joins International Climate Bond Standards Board

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
... Climate Change and the Ceres Investor Network on Climate Risk are already board members. Other board members are the California State Teachers Retirement System, California State Treasurer Bill Lockyer, the Carbon Disclosure Project and the Natural Resources ...

Climate Bonds Standard tackles low-carbon transport

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
... NextSTEPS, the Sustainable Transportation Energy Pathways research consortium, UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies, California; and Prof. Elizabeth Deakin, UC Berkeley Institute for Environment Design, California. The working group held its ...

Investors ask companies for information on fossil fuel exposures

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... change seriously and global pressures to reduce fossil fuel use will only grow stronger," said Jack Ehnes, CEO of the California State Teachers' Retirement System (CalSTRS), the nation's second largest public pension fund with $172 billion under management ...

GRI names Christianna Wood chairman of board

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... Governance Network (ICGN). She is CEO of Gore Creek Capital, and a former senior investment officer, global equity at the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS). "It is an incredibly important time for investors to be heard as a growing ...

EY: Businesses need long term carbon policy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
... as putting a cap on coal consumption by 2015. There are currently existing ETS in place in the EU, New Zealand and California. "As a whole we prefer as strong a market-based mechanism as possible and we definitely want certainty, but it's also incumbent ...