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ESG focus on climate change, income inequality: T. Rowe Price

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
Climate change risks will impact virtually all of T. Rowe Price's portfolio holdings to various degrees, leading the global fund manager to factor climate change into analysts' evaluation. Maria Elena Drew, Director of Research, Responsible Investing ...

Green tech can fuel net-zero transition, stimulus: ClimateWorks Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2020  |  NEWS
... business and investor action and government policy can be deployed to reach global goals of keeping warming below 1.5 or 2 degrees. "There are two main points that can be done today," said Amandine Denis-Ryan, head of national programs at ClimateWorks ...

Climate change, human rights risks intertwined: GCNA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... those only against the Paris Agreement of 2 degree world is not going to be sufficient," Porter said. "It should be 1.5 degrees. In that case, businesses should look to initiatives like the Science Based Targets initiative, for guidance." Porter noted ...

Companies increase ESG reporting, but "glaring gaps" remain: ACSI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2019  |  NEWS
... found that only six companies are using a 1.5-degree Celsius scenario. "We think that really, the world is moving to 1.5 degrees, so we think it would be wise for companies to be testing their scenarios against that," Davidson said. Further, few companies ...

Climate Bond Initiative identifies nearly 400 green infrastructure projects

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 AUG 2018  |  NEWS
... Speaking generally of the global need to invest in green financing to meet the target of restricting climate change to 2 degrees of warming, Kidney noted that most of the projects are investible. "We have to invest about $90 to $100 trillion by the middle ...

Institutional investors step up engagement as part of Climate Action 100+ initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2018  |  NEWS
... regional and global level and help achieve the goal of the Paris Agreement of limiting global warming to well below two- degrees Celsius. We welcome the leadership ambitions that a number of companies have set out, but now is the time to intensify climate ...

New reporting tool to improve Australian packaging sustainability

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2018  |  NEWS
... identified issues that the framework had to address. One particularly contentious issue is how to acknowledge the varying degrees to which companies are able to control and influence their supply chains and hence the packaging of products. There are ...

IGCC, global investors urge G7 to step up game on Paris Agreement

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUN 2018  |  NEWS
... currently falling short of the agreed goal of 'holding the increase in the global average temperature to well below 2-degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels'." Investors are calling on governments to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement, accelerate ...

Cement companies need to "more than double" emissions reductions: CDP

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... companies have, on average, reduced their emissions intensity by 1% p.a, over the least years, "but this is not enough for a 2-degrees trajectory and would need to more than double to meet a 2-degrees target." Eleven of the 13 companies have emission ...

New Forests given award for portfolio of carbon offset projects

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... Forests' US investments and operations. "Globally, the role of forests in helping to restrict climate change to within 2 degrees C is now understood as essential. However, traditional financial markets have failed to value forests as a carbon sink and ...