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Global banks launch voluntary Green Bond Principles

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
... green bonds. Marilyn Ceci, managing director, JPMorgan Chase corporate investment bank Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Citi, Credit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank, and JPMorgan Chase worked collaboratively to develop these voluntary principles ...

APRA: 22% of superannuation fund directors women

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
... governance at the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees. "The fact that we have more women than ASX boards is a credit to the superannuation industry, but the types of responsibility that superannuation truest have lends itself to having better ...

Climate Friendly, Corporate Carbon Advisory in CFI project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
... new methodology was developed and approved by government, and the project was then audited such that Australian carbon credit units (ACCUs) could be issued by the Clean Energy Regulator. Climate Friendly provides carbon management solutions to businesses ...

Valuing ESG risks, return potential in real assets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
Infrastructure and urban and agriculture property assets expose investors to both the risks and the opportunities of climate change and other macro-economic challenges. By investing in companies and projects that actively measure and manage the risks ...

Net Balance urges co-benefits approach for carbon offsets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 DEC 2013  |  NEWS
Net Balance is calling on the Australian government to adopt a co-benefits approach to carbon offset projects as a way to revive investment in projects. In a new report, Benefiting from co benefits in Australia, Net Balance advocates that Australia ...

Good Shepherd Microfinance welcomes inquiry

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
... Mooney One in six, or 3.1 million adult Australians, is financially excluded and unable to access a bank account, small credit or insurance policy, which has social as well as financial implications, said Adam Mooney, Good Shepherd Microfinance chief ...

EY: Direct Action Plan will offer opportunities for business

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 NOV 2013  |  NEWS
... companies in while being robust enough to effectuate real reductions," he said. The DAP and ERF will establish a baseline and credit scheme and liable entities will have to keep their emission levels below the baselines. Those entities with emissions ...

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 ...