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Cleanaway publishes first sustainability report after engagement

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
... cents per share. In the sustainability report, the company outlines its PEMAF operating model, which stands for People, Earth, Markets, Assets and Financials. The report is intended to demonstrate where the company is moving in terms of commitments around ...

Investors to develop tool to measure biodiversity impacts

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... IPBES Global Assessment Report on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services which states that the sixth mass extinction of life on Earth is underway at "an unprecedented pace." The population sizes of mammals, birds, fish, amphibians and reptiles have seen ...

GCNA urges government to focus on sustainability in COVID-19 recovery

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... most vulnerable, but also build coherent policies that are aligned to the context of net zero carbon emissions, a healthier earth in terms of managing nature and also looking after the wellbeing of humans." The 17 SDGs are an internationally agreed framework ...

Insure Our Future calls for halt to insuring oil and gas projects

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... coalition of NGOs including 350.org, ClientEarth (UK), Foundation Development YES - Open-Pit Mines NO (Poland), Friends of the Earth France, Greenpeace, Instituto Internacional de Derecho y Medio Ambiente (Spain), Japan Center for a Sustainable Environment ...

Four structural challenges for business to navigate post-lockdown: PGIM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... regular a feature supply chain disruptions are, how scarce the materials are - if, for example, if you're talking about rare earth materials mined in dodgy places, from an investor perspective, you may be willing to trade off cost efficiency for a little ...

Evidence links ESG performance to company, fund performance in crisis

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2020  |  NEWS
... to climate change, And noted "what we learned form the virus is a humbling reminder that we remain at the mercies of the earth's systems." In evaluating fund managers in Mercer's Global Investment Manager Database (GIMD) that are evaluated as being ESG ...

Comment: hindsight is 2020

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... will be diagnosed with skin cancer by the age of 70. A major cause of skin cancer is UVB. As the ozone layer protects the earth from UVB the increase in skin cancer in Australia has been indirectly linked to the hole in the ozone layer. In hindsight ...

Investing in insurance linked securities, integrating climate risk: Amundi

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2019  |  NEWS
Investing in insurance linked securities (ILS) can provide return in an asset class that is uncorrelated to other assets, with fund manager Amundi running an ILS strategy that takes into account long-term climate risks and opportunities. Chin Liu, SVP ...

Constructing an impact portfolio as stand-alone strategy: Nuveen

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAR 2019  |  NEWS
... second core belief is that with global population growth projected to reach 9.7 billion, sustaining life as we know it on earth will require disruption to value chains in agriculture, the built environment and manufacturing processes. A third is that ...

bfinance analyses ESG integration activities of Japanese active equity managers

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2018  |  NEWS
More of Japan's active equity managers are integrating environmental, social and governance (ESG) into their investment processes, but the balance of activity is in the corporate governance side, according to analysis from manager research and selection ...