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Assessing carbon beta risk in portfolios: Platypus Asset Management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUN 2021  |  NEWS
Measuring a portfolio's carbon emissions to produce a footprint is a blunt instrument that may not accurately measure and manage climate risk, according to Platypus Asset Management. Platypus Asset Management has developed a quantitative tool aimed ...

Oxfam Australia calls for stronger climate action amid GDP risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUN 2021  |  NEWS
... Australia. Oxfam Australia is calling upon G7 leaders and invited guest countries including Australia to cut carbon emissions more quickly and steeply. The G7 and guest countries are meeting in the UK this week. Nations invited to the G7 summit could ...

ASFI reports on momentum towards sustainable finance sector

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUN 2021  |  NEWS
... participants are integrating sustainability into investment valuation frameworks, growing support for adopting a net zero emissions goal by 2050, reporting in alignment with the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) and a commitment ...

DON Smallgoods site to house bioenergy plant development

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 7 JUN 2021  |  NEWS
... project is being developed under the aegis of Mount Alexander Sustainability Group's (MASG) target for reaching Zero Net Emissions (ZNET) in the shire by 203, and would be the first community-led integrated waste to energy initiative in Victoria. Bioenergy ...

Using climate scenarios to assess company risks, return

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUN 2021  |  NEWS
... the businesses being split into CleanCo and DirtyCo, and both companies will have strategies in place to lower their emissions. "These kinds of responses and hard strategy pivots will be more prevalent over time as companies face r into climate change ...

Cutting the carbon without sacrificing return: UBS

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUN 2021  |  NEWS
... down, every process a company does to produce goods and services will emit some carbon. Carbon intensity - that is, emissions divided by sales - is a rough proxy for resources divided by sales, and that is an efficiency metric." UBS did find that small ...

Queensland train project secures $620m green loan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUN 2021  |  NEWS
... the Low Carbon Transport Criteria. The project aligns with the criteria through its commitment to offer low-carbon, emissions-free sustainable transport to the South East Queensland commuter network. In obtaining the green loan, Qtectic was assisted ...

Supermarket group signs 10-year renewable deal

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUN 2021  |  NEWS
... Group's NSW energy needs with the electricity required to power 108 supermarkets, avoiding almost 158,000 tonnes of carbon emissions each year. Woolworths Group has set a commitment to transition to 100% renewable electricity by 2025 and a long-term ...

SGX CEO calls for increased international collaboration on sustainability

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUN 2021  |  NEWS
... develop Climate Impact X (CIX), aimed at providing entities with high quality carbon credits to address hard-to-abate emissions. But Loh also called on other stakeholders to play their role in developing sustainable markets. "To support and enable the ...

HSBC, partners to identify blue carbon projects

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAY 2021  |  NEWS
... HSBC said. "We've made the commitment to net zero, but in the race to net zero, we need some way to manage residual emissions that will always exist," said HSBC Australia's head of sustainability Alpa Bhattacharjee. "You can't always rely on negative ...