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Businesses addressing climate change as strategic risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... sworn a "blood oath" to repeal the government's Clean Energy Future package. Meanwhile in the US, while states such as California have implemented carbon emissions trading systems, the federal government does not have a policy on pricing carbon. However ...

LGS buys into IFC green bond issue

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... the funds are going." Hartnett said. Some of the other participants in the bond include 3M Company, Blackrock, the California State Teachers' Retirement System (CalSTRS), Calvert Investments, Ellomay Capital, Fjarde AP-fonden, Ford Motor Company, Parnassus ...

Norton Rose launches clean energy law service

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2013  |  NEWS
... uncertainty over the future of Australia's carbon trading scheme as currently constructed, other markets are coming on line. California has launched an emissions trading scheme, Kazakhstan is starting a pilot emissions trading scheme and the various ...

New Forests issues second sustainability report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2012  |  NEWS
... investment strategy, Forest Carbon Partners, which is an investment vehicle to finance forest carbon offset projects for California's cap and trade market. New Forests became a UN PRI signatory in 2010 and organises its responsible investment strategy ...

Low Carbon Australia joins Climate Bond Standard group

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 AUG 2012  |  NEWS
... the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development, US Green Building Council, the Office of the State Treasurer of California and others. The Climate Bond Standard announced that the working group held its first teleconference meeting last week, involving ...

Working group to develop Sharia-compliant green securities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2012  |  NEWS
... a group of leading, global institutional investors and environmental non-government srganisations consisting of the California State Teachers' Retirement System (CalSTRS), the Natural Resources Defense Council, the California State Treasurers' Office ...

Climate Bond Standard to screen green bonds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... text of the standard was approved by the Climate Bond Standards Board -the Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC), California State Teachers' Retirement System (CalSTRS), the Natural Resources Defense Council, the California State Treasurers' Office ...

Green bonds form basis of new institutional investment funds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2011  |  NEWS
... green bond preferencing, said Sean Kidney, CBI chair. "The certification is a signal and it allow investors such as [California State Teachers Retirement System] CalSTRS, which is on our board, to look for climate bonds," Kidney said. Crafter noted that ...

ACSI CEO elected to PRI Advisory Council

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 AUG 2011  |  NEWS
... investments at Dutch pension fund Pensioenfonds Zorg en Welzijn (PFZW), and Priya Sara Mathur of US pension fund The California Public Employees Retirement System (CalPERS), and four non-asset owners, - Byrne, Paul Abberleychief executive of Aviva Investors ...
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