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Investors to increase climate-linked passive investments: DWS Group

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... interest, citing the signing of the Paris Agreement, legal changes such as France's legislative move to require mandatory carbon reporting for companies as well as pension investors; and California's Insurance Commissioner's ruling that insurance companies ...

GCNA urges government to focus on sustainability in COVID-19 recovery

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... help to prioritise those most vulnerable, but also build coherent policies that are aligned to the context of net zero carbon emissions, a healthier earth in terms of managing nature and also looking after the wellbeing of humans." The 17 SDGs are an ...

Heritage Bank enacts environmental, social, governance policy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... into our reporting last year with a sustainability statement in our annual report, starting to talk about our impact, our carbon footprint in terms of energy saving," Lock said. "That was a baby step and we wanted to do that and to start to put some ...

CEFC invests in Charter Hall Prime Industrial Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... identify demonstration projects to showcase exemplar energy efficiency solutions, clean energy enabling activities as well as carbon neutral developments, the CEFC said. "Working with an industry leader like Charter Hall gives us the opportunity to use ...

BNP Paribas issues $140m in equity-linked green bonds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... secure a more sustainable financial future," McDonald said. The allocation fits in with QBE's efforts to support to a lower carbon economy, said James Pearson, Head of Impact and Responsible Investments for QBE Insurance. "As an international insurer ...

ESG integration policy brings consistency, innovation: JPMAM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... building their proprietary ESG scoring system, thematic research and analytics, with a key focus on climate change and carbon transition. The Sustainable Investing team collaborated with a working group of 19 senior portfolio managers, research analysts ...

UK pension fund to divest half its portfolio

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... million members, has introduced a new investment policy aimed at achieving net-zero status by 2050 or earlier. It expects carbon emissions in its portfolio will have halved by 2030. The pension fund is immediately shifting close to $10 billion in equities ...

Increase in linking environmental, social metrics to remuneration: ISS

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... 7,700 issuers globally, finds an increase from 2012 to 2018. AGL Energy announced earlier in July that they would include carbon transition metrics in remuneration structures such as long term bonuses. The precise nature of the linkage will be disclosed ...

HSBC launches ESG portfolio reporting tool for asset owners, managers

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... demand for greater transparency and more insight in this area. "Our initial launch yesterday is based on ESG ratings and carbon emissions, and we're using them as a starting point, because there's so much variability," said Chris Johnson, director of ...

Taking a closer look at corporate lobbying on climate change

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... carryover of these credits would effectively postpone the implementation of the structural adjustment needed to move to a low carbon economy. As a more specific example, in a context where the LNG industry has been one of the main areas of emission growth ...