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MSCI Barra purchases data analytics firm Carbon Delta

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 SEP 2019  |  NEWS
... Principles for Responsible Investing (UNPRI), while mandatory disclosure requirements are developing across the European Union and North America, MSCI noted. The Carbon Delta integration will augment MSCI's climate risk capabilities with modeling technology ...

Australian Sustainable Finance Initiative sets ambitious investment agenda

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAR 2019  |  NEWS
... international initiatives, and lifts the ambition somewhat." The initiative is modelled on groups including the European Union's High-Level Expert Group on Sustainable Finance and the UK's Green Finance Taskforce, as well as initiatives in Norway and ...

Australia, EU Free Trade Agreement includes SDGs, climate change

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2019  |  NEWS
The Australian government and the European Union (EU) are currently negotiating a free trade agreement (FTA) that will not only serve to strengthen trade between the two economies, but also contains language with specific reference to commitments from ...

Digitalization a megatrend with risks as well as opportunities: Morphosis

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2018  |  NEWS
... externality of privacy, which has potential impacts on other areas. He also cited the regulatory impacts of the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and said that the real estate sector should anticipate similar regulation around ...

Sustainalytics outlines ten key global ESG risks for 2018

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 FEB 2018  |  NEWS
... countries around the world. Other key risks this year include new regulations on consumer protection, such as the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and mounting risks from stakeholder governance. "We hope that this report will ...

Transparency around tax payments continues to be issue: CAER

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 NOV 2017  |  NEWS
... discussions, with the [Extractives Industry Transparency Initiative] and the [US Securities and Exchange Commission], and European Union regulation, they are the big sectors that have had to disclose. But Australia has big exposures to those sectors ...

Climate Bonds Initiative CEO speaks on 2017 green bond market outlook

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2017  |  NEWS
... the only scheme of its kind, in terms of models and have huge implications for agricultural investments for the [European Union Common Agricultural Program] CAP or the US or India," he said. "These are sources of expertise that need to be honed and exported. ...

Principles for Responsible Investment hire chief operating officer

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2016  |  NEWS
... worldwide." Peter holds an MA in Political Science from the University of Amsterdam and an MSc in Economics of the European Union from the London School of Economics.

Louise Davidson joins International Integrated Reporting Council board

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2016  |  NEWS
... takes up his new position at IIRC. Howitt has served as MEP for more than 20 years, and is the architect of the European Union's non-financial information director, IIRC said. He has also been rapporteur on corporate reporting issues, including social ...

International Integrated Reporting Council hires Richard Howitt as CEO

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 SEP 2016  |  NEWS
... takes up his new position at IIRC. Howitt has served as MEP for more than 20 years, and is the architect of the European Union's non-financial information director, IIRC said. He has also been rapporteur on corporate reporting issues, including social ...