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Australia bears sovereign risk with fossil fuel dependence: Beyond Ratings

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2020  |  NEWS
... meet a 2 degree alignment, physical risk, which reflects the exposure to risks such as sea-level rises and extreme weather events; and resiliency, which measures a country's preparedness and actions to cope with its level of climate related risk exposure," ...

Comment: hindsight is 2020

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... will happen to investments if sea levels rise by a metre or more, what will happen if there are more catastrophic weather events, what will happen if there are more claims for the insurance policies? The list of risk questions goes on. What is sometimes ...

Calculating the shorter, longer-term cost of bushfire

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... these risks. "As global temps rise, you would see particularly southern Australia have less rain, with more extreme weather events, floods, storms, droughts," Oliver said. A natural outworking of more extreme droughts gives us the situation where we ...

Mining sector showing "signs of progress" on emissions management, face continued risk: CDP

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUL 2017  |  NEWS
... Boliden of Sweden. Rio Tinto did not respond to CDP's 2017 water questionnaire. CDP particularly highlighted recent weather events in northeast Australia that impacted negatively on mining operations - "Cyclone Yasi caused torrential rain in the Bowen ...

Investors have "no place to hide" from climate change impacts: BlackRock

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 SEP 2016  |  NEWS
... increasing climate change risk in four areas: technological advances, regulatory impacts, increasingly frequent extreme weather events and social pressures for greater climate awareness, according to research from the BlackRock Investment Institute (BII). ...

Mercer to analyse climate change portfolio risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... and activist lobbying on topics like fossil fuels and stranded assets or in relation to real assets and severe weather events. This requires institutional investors to be more informed about climate risk and to be forewarned." Several institutional investors ...

KPMG proposes framework to analyse externalities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... health," Woo said. "One example of long term internalisation is in climate risk e.g., increasingly severe extreme weather events. Organisations are starting to consider the impact of future climate scenarios on business resilience. Some are considering ...

Mercer: ESG as source of innovation in shifting economy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... drivers from an economic perspective and assessing how themes such as changing regulatory requirements, extreme weather events, income inequality create investment risk and opportunity and how can investors capture that growth opportunity." At a global ...

Australian boards struggling with climate change adaptation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... strategy. The report found that while climate change science predicts a future in which there are more extreme weather events and brought on by warmer global temperatures and that there is increasing awareness that, as a result of recent extreme events ...

Businesses addressing climate change as strategic risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... political consensus. Andrew Hoffman, professsor of sustainable enterprise, University of Michigan Impacted by extreme weather events and guided by changing consumer demand and pressures on capital, companies are acting to manage risk and take advantage ...