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Perception of ethics rises off back of COVID response: Governance Institute

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... people's attitudes to ethical conduct across society showed a broad consensus on a range of COVID-19 restrictions, and high degrees of trust in health, education and professional membership associations. The overall ethics score for Australian society ...

Mercer launches analytics, advisory tool for climate transition

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... the capacity for portfolios to move to a low carbon economy and to contribute to limiting global temperatures to under 2 degrees, ideally 1.5 degrees, in line with IPCC recommendations." ACT draws on data sources from major data and research firms, and ...

Considering potential ESG implications of the US election

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... emissions future," the organisations said. "Achieving its goals of limiting global temperature rise to no more than 1.5 degrees Celsius would curb the worst financial and economic impacts of climate change and enhance institutional investors' ability ...

Cost of no climate action to hit Australian economy: Report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... climate risk could set a new growth recovery, "delivering net zero by 2050 and consistent with keeping global warming to 1.5 degrees C, could add $680 billion (in present value terms) and grow the economy by 2.6% in 2070, adding more than 250,000 jobs. ...

Woolworths commits to ambitious GHG emissions cuts

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... contribution Woolworths Group needs to make to align with the Paris Agreement's goal of limiting climate change to 1.5 degrees on 2015 levels. Woolworths said they are implementing a number of programs to reduce greenhouse gas emissions across the group ...

Substantial investment needed for sustainable infrastructure: RARE Infrastructure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... Agency (IEA) statistics stating that in order to lower emissions enough to keep with the UN climate change target to 1.5 -2 degrees of warming, "a baseline case of roughly $1.3 trillion needed to be spent annually on a global basis over the next 20 years ...

BNP Paribas issues $140m in equity-linked green bonds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... business and investor action and government policy can be deployed to reach global goals of keeping warming below 1.5 or 2 degrees. The index uses a forward-looking approach using the research outlined in ClimateWorks' Decarbonisation Futures report ...

Climate change, unclear policy response pose investment risk: JANA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... stage, hypothetical - policy response and emissions technology developments, which limits long-term temperature rise to 1.8 degrees. "The physical and transition risks of climate change are expected to have a significant negative influence on investment ...

HESTA to move to net zero carbon emissions in portfolio by 2050

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... undertaken by a superannuation fund, mapping out how we're going to manage climate risk, align our actions to a below-two-degrees world and support the transition to a low-carbon economy," said Debby Blakey, HESTA CEO. "Climate change presents a financial ...

Aviva Investors identifies megatrends representing market failures

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... change is going to affect the long term returns of investors, yet the current market structure continues to reward 3.7 degrees, which undermines the Paris agreement." Waygood said there is something "fundamentally wrong" with market incentives, and that ...