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Climate risk necessitates short and long term stress testing: Mercer

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2019  |  NEWS
Investing in climate solutions can bring a low carbon transition premium for institutional investors, increasing the urgency for investors to gauge short term as well as long-term impacts of climate change according to new research from Mercer. Helga ...

QBE joins Business Council for Sustainable Development Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2019  |  NEWS
... Australia) is the national peak body representing forward-thinking companies and organisations that are working towards the transition to a sustainable Australia. BCSD Australia is the Australian partner of the World Business Council for Sustainable ...

Australian Sustainable Finance Initiative sets ambitious investment agenda

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAR 2019  |  NEWS
... of "with developing a set of recommendations to enable the finance sector to contribute more systematically to the transition to a more resilient and sustainable economy" during the "critical decade" ahead. "Fundamentally, what we have focused the most ...

BNP Paribas Asset Management launches global sustainability strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAR 2019  |  NEWS
... sustainability at BNP Paribas Asset Management BNP Paribas Asset Management are focusing on three sustainability themes - energy transition, the environment and equality (3Es). The 3Es are in line with BNPP AM's commitment to invest for the long term ...

GRI marks 20th anniversary of first draft guidelines

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAR 2019  |  NEWS
... economy." In 2015, the GRI's Global Sustainability Standards Board (GSSB) announced that the voluntary G4 guidelines would transition into what is now the GRI Standards by the end of 2016. There are six GRI Standards modules. The transition from guidelines ...

Climate change, modern slavery on ESG engagement agenda: Ausbil

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAR 2019  |  NEWS
... companies we already hold in the portfolio. If I specifically talk about climate action 100+, we position our portfolios to transition in terms of climate change. Over time, the economy will be decarbonised, and then how do you play that as an investor? ...

Investec Asset Management launches Global Environment Strategy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2019  |  NEWS
... "first, by providing access to the investment opportunity represented by companies participating in the sustainable transition towards decarbonisation; second, redressing the balance of structural underexposure to the enablers and beneficiaries of decarbonisation ...

Australia, EU Free Trade Agreement includes SDGs, climate change

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2019  |  NEWS
... atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations, taking into account the latest scientific information and the need for a transition to low emission economies while continuing sustainable economic growth through nationally appropriate mitigation and adaptation ...

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

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2019  |  NEWS
... extreme weather. As large investors, insurance firms can direct funding to companies and assets geared towards the transition to a low-carbon economy. However, a 2018 report by the Asset Owners Disclosure Project found that only 1% of assets invested ...

Infrastructure Capital Group launches Australian Renewables Income Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 DEC 2018  |  NEWS
... Income Fund is about creating new opportunities for institutional investors to take a larger role in our clean energy transition. "Through ARIF, investors will have exposure to a broad range of renewable energy technologies, providing attractive options ...