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Big money urged to leverage influence

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 16 DEC 2024  |  NEWS
... manager PKA defended its exit saying it wished to focus on its membership of the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC). Australian superannuation fund CBUS left in September 2022, while German insurer HanseMerkur and the Church of England ...

Climate changes how investors get paid

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2024  |  NEWS
Climate change is causing a shift in the way investments are returned, from paying dividends to repurchasing shares - particularly in Australia. New research from the University of Queensland (UQ) finds the US, China, and the Philippines are also most ...

Asset managers move climate targets in-house

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 12 DEC 2024  |  NEWS
... action in-house from 1 December. It's the latest in a string of recent departures from CA100+. The Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC), which is the convener of CA100+ in Australia, confirmed Franklin Templeton's exit but said the initiative's signatory ...

What to expect in 2025

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 DEC 2024  |  NEWS
... investment fundamentals," she says. "In addition to tense international relations, investors must continue to navigate climate change implications, energy security, and supply chain issues." As for AI, there is an estimated US$1 trillion expected to ...

Geopolitical tensions create investor opportunity: Franklin Templeton

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 10 DEC 2024  |  NEWS
... investors, according to a new paper from Franklin Templeton. These geopolitical pressures, comparable in impact to climate change, are now immediate, direct, and global in reach, shaping policies and influencing investment returns, Franklin Templeton ...

Future Group ramps up screening

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 9 DEC 2024  |  NEWS
... industries with high ESG risk and aligns with the International Energy Agency (IEA) and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The group said it will channel capital towards climate solutions, noting that fossil fuels are diminishing in ...

Greenwash top of mind for Kiwi funds

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 5 DEC 2024  |  NEWS
... investment decision making, and the increasing scrutiny over how returns are generated," said Pip Best, partner, climate change and sustainability at EY, who worked on preparing the report. Awareness of responsible investing rose from 57% to 70%. Half ...

Podcast: Everything you missed at COP29 climate conference with Richie Merzian

THE GREENER WAY  |  TUESDAY, 3 DEC 2024  |  NEWS
COP29, the 2024 UN Conference of the Parties on Climate Change, ran from November 11-22 in Azerbaijan. The main decision was how to pay for poorer nations' climate financing - decarbonisation, adaptation, and resilience to climate impacts - which ...

Podcast: How Trump will impact global clean energy and climate finance with Lachlan Carey

THE GREENER WAY  |  TUESDAY, 26 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... protection laws, exit the Paris Agreement, and "Drill, baby, drill!" (for fossil fuels). Trump himself believes climate change is a "scam", and just last week he picked climate sceptic and fossil fuel executive Chris Wright to lead his energy department. ...

COP29 skirts diplomatic disaster

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 25 NOV 2024  |  NEWS
... year rising to US$1.8 trillion from 2025 to 2030 - which was one of the main topics of talks in Baku. The 2024 UN Climate Change Conference (COP 29) was "at best the avoidance of a diplomatic disaster," that came "too little too late," said the Potsdam ...