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BNP Paribas updates sustainability strategy

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 16 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
BNP Paribas Asset Management has updated its Global Sustainability Strategy with a focus on ESG integration and stewardship. It comes as a response to new regulations as well as evolving consumer and investor expectations. As of September 2023, its ...

Investors "flying blind" to climate litigation risk

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  MONDAY, 15 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... and transition risks from climate change when investing in major energy companies - and may be overlooking the financial risk from litigation, researchers from Oxford University and the University of Melbourne warn. Accounting for recent developments ...

Treasury publishes climate disclosure legislation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 15 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... management will have to report on the financial impacts of climate change from 1 July 2026, according to mandatory climate risk reporting legislation proposed by government. Treasury released the exposure draft of legislation that would make financial ...

Paris overshoot: are investors prepared?

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  FRIDAY, 12 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... climate scenarios now pointing to a disorderly transition of over 2°C, investors will need to update their understand of risk and take action to protect the value of portfolios. A recent report released in December revealed that Australia's largest ...

Growing scope for investing in natural capital: bfinance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 11 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... chain. bfinance also sees a growing trend in favour of carbon credit creation in forestry. Among agriculture funds, the lower-risk end of the spectrum features strategies with a high proportion of buy-and-lease assets. bfinance also identified significant ...

Global economists identify key risks for the decade ahead

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 11 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... corporate executives across 113 economies, and 55 WEF experts. Cost-of-living has been identified the most severe global risk over the next two years, while biodiversity loss and ecosystem collapse will occur within the next decade. These factors will ...

Report reveals progress on green finance

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
Current financial regulations and central banking activities have an outsized focus on climate, and neglect broader impacts such as biodiversity loss and its effects on communities who rely on nature for their livelihoods. While progress has been made ...

Podcast: Does DEI improve financial return - Raymone Jackson

THE GREENER WAY  |  MONDAY, 8 JAN 2024  |  NEWS
... diversity on boards. Enhanced diversity and inclusion is "rapidly becoming the next frontier in ensuring sound governance and risk culture practices," Rowell said in a speech."Effective DEI practices support a more resilient financial services sector ...

Top 10 most-read articles of 2023

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 28 DEC 2023  |  NEWS
... take a look back at the most popular articles of the year - in case you missed any. #1: ANZ in court over climate and nature risk failure November: An ANZ shareholder took the bank to court over allegations it failed to manage the material risks of climate ...

ESG in 2024: key trends and legislative changes for the year ahead

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 28 DEC 2023  |  NEWS
... leaders continued to power ahead with efforts for a greener and more socially ethical financial system and understanding of risk and return - with the awareness that this may be our last chance to prevent irreversible climate change. ESG reporting and ...