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Human rights, trust, climate risk top sustainability agenda for 2019

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2019  |  NEWS
... insurance industry enables projects that worsen climate change, which increases the frequency and severity of extreme weather. As large investors, insurance firms can direct funding to companies and assets geared towards the transition to a low-carbon ...

Majority of largest asset owners recognise risk of climate change: AODP

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 APR 2017  |  NEWS
... the TCFD this July. "How can the risk manage itself," Hewson said. "WE have extreme consequences as a result of extreme weather - [Hurricane] Katrina wiped out New Orleans, property values all collapsed, and it cost tens of billions of dollars.It's possible ...

Investors have "no place to hide" from climate change impacts: BlackRock

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 SEP 2016  |  NEWS
... increasing climate change risk in four areas: technological advances, regulatory impacts, increasingly frequent extreme weather events and social pressures for greater climate awareness, according to research from the BlackRock Investment Institute (BII). ...

KPMG proposes framework to analyse externalities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... financial health," Woo said. "One example of long term internalisation is in climate risk e.g., increasingly severe extreme weather events. Organisations are starting to consider the impact of future climate scenarios on business resilience. Some are ...

CDP: World cities report climate change business impacts

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2014  |  NEWS
... address climate change directly or through enabling activity," Bulla said. "The city reports that it provides extreme weather management and warning systems that can inform residents and businesses alike of climate risks, but is also improving the city's ...

Mercer: ESG as source of innovation in shifting economy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... are the drivers from an economic perspective and assessing how themes such as changing regulatory requirements, extreme weather events, income inequality create investment risk and opportunity and how can investors capture that growth opportunity." At ...

Supply chain, G4, social value to top sustainability agenda

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JAN 2014  |  NEWS
... understanding everything from labour risks and environmental risks through to productivity issues through to issues like extreme weather impacts and how it might affect them." As a result, there is more focus on supply chain, because as supply chains ...

Australian boards struggling with climate change adaptation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 APR 2013  |  NEWS
... corporate strategy. The report found that while climate change science predicts a future in which there are more extreme weather events and brought on by warmer global temperatures and that there is increasing awareness that, as a result of recent extreme ...

Businesses addressing climate change as strategic risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAR 2013  |  NEWS
... political consensus. Andrew Hoffman, professsor of sustainable enterprise, University of Michigan Impacted by extreme weather events and guided by changing consumer demand and pressures on capital, companies are acting to manage risk and take advantage ...

70% of suppliers see climate change as supply chain risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2013  |  NEWS
... risen from 505 to 686, and those reporting emissions reductions has risen from 328 to 683. Respondents identified extreme weather as a likely catalyst for action on climate change, and physical risk was identified as a major driver of investment. "Of ...