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Social, economic consequences of climate change "devastating": Robeco

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... your portfolios meet environmental objectives. "The idea is that they want to accelerate a transition to a low carbon economy, and reporting is a means to provide more transparency to what's going on." While the cash flows of some companies would ...

Mercer launches analytics, advisory tool for climate transition

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... geographic, sector, manager and stock drivers to allow investors to look at the capacity for portfolios to move to a low carbon economy and to contribute to limiting global temperatures to under 2 degrees, ideally 1.5 degrees, in line with IPCC recommendations." ...

RealIndex appoints former Acadian executive

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 17 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... her initial research on carbon emissions and metrics related to risks and opportunities in transition to a low carbon economy, with a goal of integrating those insights into existing RealIndex products, she said.

Taking a closer look at corporate lobbying on climate change

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... these credits would effectively postpone the implementation of the structural adjustment needed to move to a low carbon economy. As a more specific example, in a context where the LNG industry has been one of the main areas of emission growth in Australia ...

CEFC invests $1.7 million in Australian agritech company

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... markets, we need to bring together a cross-industry community with the goal of accelerating our transition to a low carbon economy." The SCC investment is the CEFC's first commitment to a bio-sequestration opportunity. "Together with energy efficiency ...

Global stimulus an opportunity for sustainable investment: Ninety One

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... at the individual country level, policies being put in place are surprising in terms of their focus on the low carbon economy." The proposal outlined by the European Commission is a European first, and will require approval by all member states before ...

Collaboration a competitive advantage for super on ESG: NGS Super

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... exclusion. We want to do some research to test that exclusion in its current state as we transition to the low carbon economy. It needs to be backed up by research. That will trigger a review of our exclusions, but will also trigger a review of our climate ...

Climate risk assessment impacts on small, mid-cap portfolios: Fairlight AM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2020  |  NEWS
... Climate-related investment risks can largely be segmented into two categories - climate change risk and transition to a low carbon economy risk. The former is the risk that a company's assets or income could be impacted by climate change. Take, for example ...

Singapore-based Vena Energy issues US$325 million green bond

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... to play a leading role in developing and generating clean renewable energy to accelerate the transition to a low carbon economy across the Asia-Pacific region." Vena Energy's Green Financing Framework has been independently evaluated by Vigeo Eiris and ...

Calculating the shorter, longer-term cost of bushfire

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... when planning over the long term, particularly when modelling the costs and benefits of transitioning to a low carbon economy. "In the debate around if you start moving more aggressively to decarbonise, if some industries die, other industries fill the ...