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Australia falls in EY renewable energy index

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2015  |  NEWS
... confidence that demand is there, and maintains momentum as we hurtle towards universal grid parity for renewables." The UK, Germany and Spain also fell in the RECAI rankings, also due to policy changes. EY said a series of policy changes in the UK that ...

Climate change impacts on investments "inevitable": Mercer

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2015  |  NEWS
... private sector arm of the World Bank Group, in partnership with Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, Germany, and the UK Department for International Development (DFID). The study was also supported with contributions from Mercer's ...

Aust/NZ investors committed to ESG in alt investments: Mercer

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2015  |  NEWS
... investment values and the holy grail of alpha seeking, rather than driven, as we saw in other respondents in Benelux, Germany and other parts of Europe, by values and ethical considerations." There is a belief among Australian and New Zealand institutional ...

Supply chain vulnerable to climate change risk: CDP

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... impacts to the supply chain. This year, the report analysed suppliers across 11 economies - Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Spain, the UK and the USA and rated them on how prepared they are to mitigate and manage environmental ...

Green bond issuance hits US$36.6 billion for 2014

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... account for 44% - US$16 billion of total green bond issuance in 20154, split between new development bank issuance from Germany's KfW, France's AFD and Netherland's NWB Bank and "veterans" - the European Investment Bank (EIB), European Bank for Reconstruction ...

IIRC launches IR Technology Initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
... technology can assist in the adoption of IR. Paul Druckman, IIRC CEO CRedit360 (UK), Deloitte, Indra (Spain), PwC (US), SAP (Germany) and Tagetik (Italy) have joined as charter members of the IR Technology Initiative. The group will evaluate how technology ...

ClimateWorks Australia: Australia can decarbonise by 2050

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... Decarbonisation Pathways Project, which involves modelling teams from 15 major emitters - Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Mexico, Russia, South Africa, South Korea, the UK and the USA. These countries account ...

AMP Capital reviews corporate governance activities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... disclosure and for boards and management to be held accountable to shareholders." Alternatively, AMP Capital highlighted Germany, Japan and China, where companies are controlled by "a small identifiable group of long-term owners" where governance processes ...

PRI to target water risk in agricultural supply chains

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... supply chain operations, but overall performance was poor." The research was conducted by World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and PwC Germany. WWF and PwC established a target universe of 78 companies to examine, "based on the scope of company reach, investor ...

Climate Bonds Standard tackles low-carbon transport

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
... Amsterdam; Dr. He Dongquan, China Sustainable Transportation Centre, Beijing; Marcus Fehling, Siemens Electromobility Division, Germany; Lewis Fulton, co-director of NextSTEPS, the Sustainable Transportation Energy Pathways research consortium, UC Davis ...