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Green economy a multi-trillion dollar opportunity: FTSE Russell

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... data. "The real challenge has been on the data, and is a common thing that we're still seeing within Europe with the EU taxonomy work," Clements said. "It's a very difficult metric to get the number for a large part of the green economy. We've looked ...

Regnan launches global equity impact fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... goal is to find the best solutions to those particular challenges," Crockford said. "We built something called our SDG taxonomy, and the idea was, when we started building it in 2015, that as you go thru the 169 targets, you can start trying to match ...

Industry considers Australian sustainable finance taxonomy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
The development of an industry-led taxonomy to provide common definitions of sustainable finance across investment, banking and insurance is one of the next steps in implementing the Australian Sustainable Finance Initiative roadmap (ASFI), but while ...

Social, economic consequences of climate change "devastating": Robeco

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... investors will have to fulfil, requirements in terms of classifying how green their funds are and reporting in line with the taxonomy on the extent to which your portfolios meet environmental objectives. "The idea is that they want to accelerate a transition ...

Roadmap outlines sustainable transformation for finance industry

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... with a board by the middle of next year to deliver the work of that roadmap, to start deliver a working group around taxonomy, guidance on [Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures] TCFD recommendations, to start convening a project group ...

Retail sustainable investments grow by 21%: Morningstar

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
... coming off a low base," Kennaway said. "We're way behind Europe and the US.... The European Union is bringing out the taxonomy on sustainable development. A lot of the European developments will flow through to the Australian marketplace. That's something ...

PRI executive appointed to European Platform on Sustainable Finance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
... advise the European Commission on the development of robust and science-based technical screening criteria for the EU taxonomy and policy development, as well as other duties, according to the European Commission. Fabian will retains his current role ...

FTSE Russell enhances Green Revenues data model

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... Arne Staal, global head of research and product management, FTSE Russell. "A high degree of overlap with the incoming EU Taxonomy will also allow asset managers to demonstrate the proportion of a fund that contributes to the growing and dynamic green ...

Data enhances case for ESG as separate, interrelated factor to quality

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... Eurozone, the Technical expert group on sustainable finance ( TEG ) has been looking at this area. It has established a green taxonomy, and led the development of indices with their report on green benchmarks," said Takaya Sekine, deputy head of quantitative ...

Can proposed EU recovery plan prove a sustainable model for Australia?

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... the wellbeing of its community and workforce better poised to come out of the crisis. Freedman also pointed to the EU taxonomy for sustainable activities and the ways in which the taxonomy would match up with activities funded by Next Generation EU. ...