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ESG "the most important thematic for the next 30 years"

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
ESG is tipped to be the most important investment thematic for the next 30 years, according to Plato Investment Management. Managing director Don Hamson pointed to the surge in ESG investment and explained why the asset management industry must take ...

Banks face multi-billion risks from climate change: Accenture

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
... Change. The report outlines examples of balance sheet exposure in the banking sector, citing physical risks such as increased flood risk as an impact to banks' mortgage portfolios, severe weather events leading to re-pricing of sovereign debt and impacting ...

Extreme weather, human rights intensifying ESG focus: Janus Henderson

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUL 2021  |  NEWS
The impacts of environmental and social crises such as extreme weather events and human rights in the supply chain are intensifying the engagement on ESG topics with companies, according to Janus Henderson. Pointing to current weather crises such as ...

Why the move to clean energy won't be enough

ALISTAIR MILLS  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUN 2021  |  NEWS
Climate change: Opportunity in the face of catastrophe 2020 was planet Earth's hottest on record - a fact that many would be forgiven for missing in what can only be described as a tumultuous year. Outside of the COVID pandemic, global weather patterns ...

APPEA conference kicks up controversy

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUN 2021  |  NEWS
... in Australia and globally. APPEA boasted to its members about its successful campaign for a 'gas-fired recovery', and the flood of subsidies to the industry that came with it." According to ACCR analysis, as of May 2021 the government had committed nearly ...

HSBC, partners to identify blue carbon projects

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAY 2021  |  NEWS
HSBC and The Nature Conservancy (TNC) Australia have partnered to identify projects to leads towards the issuance of blue impact bonds and other assets. Blue Impact Bonds for Nature will be funded by an US$800,000 grant from HSBC. TNC Australia will ...

APAC investors ahead of North America on climate action: PGIM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAY 2021  |  NEWS
Institutional investors in Asia Pacific are more likely than their counterparts in North America to take action on climate change, but investors in Europe are still leading the pack, according to PGIM. PGIM recently surveyed 101 institutional investor ...

Thai regulator becomes TCFD suppporter

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... business sectors' capability to manage material risks and business opportunities arising from climate change, for example, flood, drought and future governmental policies that may affect fossil fuel consumption." The TCFD framework can be applied to ...

State of the climate report confirms need for climate-aware investing: Future Super

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
Recent observations by CSIRO and the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) on the pace and severity of climate change "confirms what people already know" and also gives impetus for investing in line with reducing the risks and effects of climate change, according ...

Climate change, SDG impacts of US election

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... and ability to withstand the next shock. That might be climate change, it might be the next bushfire season or the next flood season. We need to look at it from the perspective of resilience and build it out, rather than just respond to the individual ...