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New CEO search underway for IGCC

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 29 APR 2021  |  NEWS
The chief executive officer of the Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC) will step down after six years in the role to join a leading professional services firm. Emma Herd joined IGCC in 2015 following fifteen years in sustainable finance in the banking ...

Calculating value of biodiversity: BNP Paribas Asset Management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 29 APR 2021  |  NEWS
... ecosystems' current health. The indicator can help understand which environmental pressures, such as land use, climate change, nitrogen deposit and others are most contributing to the negative impact of a given company or of a given portfolio. Even if ...

APRA emphasises "compounding effect" of climate change

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 22 APR 2021  |  NEWS
Financial risks of climate change can interact and compound other institutional risks including credit risk, market risk, and liquidity risk, APRA has emphasised in a new practice guide. APRA has released a draft guide for Prudential Practice Guide ...

Earth Day brings tidings of climate change commitments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 22 APR 2021  |  NEWS
... plethora of announcements and commitments from investors, businesses and beloved consumer goods pledging action on climate change. To name and annotate each organisation making a pledge towards managing or mitigating climate change would give cause for ...

Rest launches Sustainable Growth option

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 22 APR 2021  |  NEWS
... was dismissed as Rest agreed to all of McVeigh's requests, including publicly acknowledging the threat that climate change poses both economically and socially.

Using total portfolio management to gain China, ESG exposure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 22 APR 2021  |  NEWS
... really improve the investment system to make it more sustainable, in particular in addressing systemic risks such as climate change." "The investment case is really three-fold," Yin said. "China has the world's second largest economy, and the world's ...

NZ climate disclosure legislation to affect Australian entities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 15 APR 2021  |  NEWS
... Australian investors with trans-Tasman operations will also be required to report on the risk they face relating to climate change - those over the $1 billion in assets under management threshold, the same as that for New Zealand financial entities," ...

Investors shifting to net zero targets: Robeco

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 13 APR 2021  |  NEWS
... Robeco's '2021 Global Climate Survey' took the pulse of 300 large global investors, with respondents saying that climate change is already a significant factor in the investment policy of 73% of investors surveyed. While the number of investors that ...

Low-cost, high-reliability road to renewable energy: Grattan Institute

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 12 APR 2021  |  NEWS
... find is that we can make some real progress in the next few years," said Tony Wood, program director, energy and climate change and co-author of the report. "Any of the coal fired generators that shut down in the meantime can be replaced with renewables. ...

Coles sets net zero target with absolute emissions reductions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 8 APR 2021  |  NEWS
... do so without carbon offsets. Coles recently launched its refreshed sustainability strategy, which includes its climate change pillar, named Together to Zero. As part of the climate pillar, Coles commits to deliver net zero greenhouse gas emissions by ...