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Westpac discloses environmental, social, financial metrics

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
... housing sector by 2017, and has lent AU$650 million of that sum so far. As part of that, the bank has also established credit underwriting standards for the social and affordable housing sector. "I'm really excited about the social and affordable housing ...

IGCC welcomes CCA draft report on emissions targets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
The Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC) welcomes the "pragmatic assessment" of the Climate Change Authority (CCA) draft report, but says it raises questions of how Australia will achieve higher emissions reductions. In its draft report into caps ...

Willingness to pay affects BlackRock sovereign debt scores

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... driver behind most of the BSRI ranking changes in the third quarter of 2013. The BSRI is a framework for tracking sovereign credit risk in 48 countires, based on a pool of financial data, surveys and political insights. The willingness to pay metric ...

Companies face uncertainty from timing of carbon tax repeal

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2013  |  NEWS
... they should review their contractual arrangements, including their carbon cost pass-through agreements and forward carbon credit purchase agreements, to determine whether the repeal of the scheme and the operation of the associated transitional arrangements ...

UN Statistics Division releases ecosystem accounting system

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
The United Nations Statistics Division has developed an experimental ecosystem accounting system to quantify ecosystem services and conditions in physical and monetary terms. Although the proposed accounting system is initially intended for governmental ...

SEB, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley top climate bond underwriters

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... leading underwriters of labelled climate bonds, while JP Morgan, Bank of America (BofA) Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse lead in deal size of the unlabelled climate bonds market, according to the Climate Bonds Initiative. Sean Kidney, Climate ...

PRI: ESG factors material to sovereign bond creditworthiness

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI). PRI has released a discussion paper exploring the link between ESG factors and credit risk in the US%47 trillion sovereign debt market. Asset owner such as pension funds invest in sovereign debt because of ...

YES BANK signs on to Natural Capital Declaration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
... on a banks' balance sheet. The NCD aims to provide insight to uncover these and solutions how to address these issues in credit risk management and product development." In June, NCD announced that it had started the next phase of its plan in which the ...

HSBC calls for policies to support low-carbon financing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
... suggests mechanisms including "co investment through debt and equity, as well as first loss arrangements, loan guarantees, credit enhancement for project debt and policy risk insurance for climate polices," as possible steps. This funding needs to be ...

Beyond Zero Emissions proposes model for retrofitting houses

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 AUG 2013  |  NEWS
... understand the structure, and around developing more standardised approaches to understanding the environmental benefits and the credit assessment." The residential PACE programs have dwindled significantly because of reluctance to accept PACE liens ...