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COP26 week one: what Australians need to know

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 NOV 2021  |  NEWS
... catalysing private finance. "We need greater ambition - you can't escape from that," Dodwell said. "We have 75% of global GDP under net zero goals. We have 19 of the G20 signed up to net zero. The transformation in the past two years, you can't ...

IFRS announces plan for comprehensive sustainability standards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 NOV 2021  |  NEWS
... the Value Reporting Foundation and others will provide the foundations to achieve this goal." ISSB will be the primary global sustainability standard setter. It will sit alongside IASB, the body that develops and issues international financial reporting ...

Tightening climate focus on world's biggest emitters: Aviva Investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 30 SEP 2021  |  NEWS
... giant to set short-, medium- and long-term decarbonisation targets in line with the Paris Agreement's mandate to keep global warming below 2 degrees C. The resolution called for those targets to apply to both of AGL's future demerged businesses ...

NAB launches sustainability-linked derivatives

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 2 SEP 2021  |  NEWS
... additional incentive to organisations to set and meet ambitious sustainability improvement targets," said David Jenkins, global head of sustainable finance, National Australia Bank. "The financial incentive can be more material than it would be in the ...

IFM Investors hires responsible investment associate director

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUN 2021  |  NEWS
... his new role in late June. IFM Investors says that its responsible investment approach is aligned with the United Nations Global Compact and the United Nations-supported Principles for Responsible Investment, to which IFM has been a signatory since 2008. ...

NZ climate disclosure legislation to affect Australian entities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 15 APR 2021  |  NEWS
... just New Zealand-domiciled entities, but also companies that are dually listed on the ASX and NZX, as well as regional and global fund managers who have operations in NZ that meet those thresholds. This raises the question as to whether an entity that ...

NAB participates in £300 million sustainability linked loan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 8 APR 2021  |  NEWS
... benefiting from long-term stability from debt capital markets that will underpin its ambitious growth plans. Barclays acted as global coordinator on the transaction and National Australia Bank acted as sustainability coordinator. The Anchor Hanover deal ...

Coles sets net zero target with absolute emissions reductions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 8 APR 2021  |  NEWS
... the first major Australian retailer to commit to buying renewable energy through a 10-year Power Purchase Agreement with global renewable power generation company Metka EGN, purchasing more than 70% of the electricity generated by three solar power plants ...

Setting the standards for diversity within funds management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... grapple with increasing diversity within their ranks as much as they focus on diversity in their invested companies, one global fund manager speaks to the steps it is taking to enhance their approach to diversity and inclusion. Neuberger Berman, the ...

Ausbil drops fossil fuel companies from sustainable fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... universe of investable companies on the ASX. As part of this investment backdrop, Ausbil sees themes like decarbonisation and global warming are driving a growing energy thematic that will eventually tip the scales toward alternative energy, most likely ...