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BNP Paribas names APAC head of stewardship

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 6 OCT 2022  |  NEWS
... led AIGCC's Asia Utilities Engagement Program, a collaborative engagement program that runs in parallel to Climate Action 100+. Before that, Ho was an equities portfolio manager at JP Morgan Asset Management for more than 10 years. "We are very pleased ...

Cbus quits Net Zero Asset Owners Alliance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 29 SEP 2022  |  NEWS
... goals and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The call was signed by Carney, the UN special envoy for climate action and finance and UN high-level climate action champion Nigel Topping, and supported by the Sustainable Markets Initiative and ...

New Zealand to issue green bonds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 15 SEP 2022  |  NEWS
... accelerate investment in the transition to a zero-carbon economy. "The government is committed to bold, enduring climate action," Shaw said. "The Emissions Reduction Plan and the record $2.9 billion of funding in Budget 22 underlines the seriousness ...

La Trobe Financial certified by Climate Action

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 16 AUG 2022  |  NEWS
... neutrality. It is a partnership between the Australian government and Australian businesses to drive voluntary climate action. La Trobe Financial achieved carbon neutrality in 2021, working with independent advisers Carbon Neutral to measure its emissions ...

Does Canberra's agenda align with sustainable investment?

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 11 AUG 2022  |  NEWS
... investing, both institutional and retail. The election result - and the strong preference of Australian votes for climate action - mirrors Australians' interest in ESG issues and has been building momentum for some time, judging by how much money has ...

NGS Super divests from oil and gas producers

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 AUG 2022  |  NEWS
... Super's announcement was mixed. "This is a giant step forward for the fund and its members, and raises the bar for climate action in the superannuation industry," said Market Forces superannuation funds campaigner Brett Morgan. "This policy does ...

COP27 preview: loss and damage, action on commitments

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUL 2022  |  NEWS
... the Bank of England, noted that Australia would bolster its case to host a COP by increasing its commitments on climate action further. "You are the president in this case for the transition of the world," Carney said of the role of the host country ...

Innova launches ESG model portfolios

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2022  |  NEWS
... portfolios apply negative and positive screens in its construction, with positive tilts to companies supporting climate action, life on earth, sustainable resource use, gender equality, and health and wellbeing. The negative screens ruling out companies ...

Majority of ASX200 reporting on ESG: ACSI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUN 2022  |  NEWS
... risks against individual UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) or use the SDG framework to guide their reporting. Climate Action (Goal 13) is the most cited priority SDG. Five years ago, just 10% of the ASX200 reported against the SDGs, ACSI noted. ...

Igneo reports on ESG progress

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2022  |  NEWS
... was relatively high level and looked at risk at regional level." The asset level assessment is part of Igneo's Climate Action 1 2 3 program. "We used Moody's ESG to do a pilot, where you give them GPS coordinates of individual assets and they assess ...