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Aviva Investors launches climate transition equity fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... business models for a warmer, low-carbon world. It avoids stocks exposed to coal, unconventional fossil fuels, Arctic oil and gas production or thermal coal electricity generation, and limits exposure to those producing oil and gas or gas-fired power ...

AustralianSuper backs net-zero emissions

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... companies should emit new greenhouse gas as low as possible, which means rapidly phasing out fossil fuels such as coal, oil and gas, and transition to renewable energy, the Climate Council said. IFM Investors and Cbus are some organisations that have ...

Considering potential ESG implications of the US election

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... building before more radical policies take root, we should avoid outright bets, for example, on renewables or the oil and gas sector." If Joe Biden were to win the election, he has committed to bringing the US back into the Paris Climate Agreement, an ...

Industry fund lifts game on SRI options

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
... capitalisation, while the new options exclude those that earn 5% or more of revenue from coal and coal-fired power generation, oil and gas (conventional and unconventional) as well as transportation. This new criterion also removes businesses that earn ...

ARENA, CEFC changes open door to CCS, hydrogen investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... rate of 300 million tonnes per annum for at least 100 years - the same basins that have safely and permanently held oil and gas in place for tens of millions of years," Gallagher said. "Australia needs low-cost abatement to maintain our position as a ...

AMMA names Lisa Ali to Board of Directors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... international stints, and joined Newcrest Mining in February 2020 following a number of senior leadership roles in the oil and gas, petrochemical and manufacturing sectors. She spent 12 years in various global positions with BP before joining Trinidad ...

ASX-listed mining, gas and oil companies lack tax transparency: PWYP

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... by project level. Research showed that of the top 20 ASX-listed companies - the top 10 in mining and the top 10 in oil and gas - only 3 - BHP, Rio Tinto and South32 were disclosing all their documentation at a country by country, project by project level ...

Insure Our Future calls for halt to insuring oil and gas projects

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
A coalition of global environmental NGOs is calling on the largest global insurers to halt insuring new oil and gas expansion projects and phase out insurance for oil and gas companies in order to meet a 1.5C global climate target. Peter Bosshard, global ...

More than a third of investors back Rio Tinto climate resolution

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility (ACCR) lodged four shareholder resolutions with the AGM of ASX-listed oil and gas company Woodside Petroleum Limited. The AGM was held 30 April in Perth. Resolution 4(b) asked the company to "to set and ...

Woodside AGM climate resolution receives majority support

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility (ACCR) lodged four shareholder resolutions with the AGM of ASX-listed oil and gas company Woodside Petroleum Limited. The AGM was held 30 April in Perth. Resolution 4(b) asked the company to "to set and ...