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Investors call for multilateral financial architecture overhaul

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  TUESDAY, 24 OCT 2023  |  NEWS
Ahead of the upcoming COP28 in the United Arab Emirates, a member-led initiative of 86 institutional investors with US$9.6 trillion in assets under management reported a fall in total absolute financed greenhouse gas emissions. In its third annual progress ...

NAB, Ramsay Health Care in ESG derivative transaction

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 21 OCT 2021  |  NEWS
Ramsay Health Care has closed Australia's first sustainability-linked derivative. Ramsay Health Care traded an ESG-linked interest rate swap exclusively with NAB, the bank reported. The ESG targets are linked to an existing sustainability linked ...

Macquarie Asset Management joins net zero initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
The Net Zero Asset Managers Initiative has signed more than 40 new participants, agreeing to achieve 2030 emissions reductions and net zero by 2050 or sooner. The Net Zero Asset Managers initiative now has a total of 73 signatories representing US$32 ...

Finance sector calls for development of Sustainable Finance Roadmaps

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2018  |  NEWS
Finance sector institutions representing more than 300 institutions with $10 trillion in assets have called for the development of Sustainable Finance Roadmaps for Australia and New Zealand. The statement was released at the end of the 2018 United Nations ...

Montreal Carbon Pledge a building block: Cbus' Atkin

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
The Montreal Carbon Pledge will be an opportunity for signatories to the UN-supported Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) to demonstrate the impact that climate change will have on investments and strategies, according to David Atkin, Cbus CEO ...

YES BANK signs on to Natural Capital Declaration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 SEP 2013  |  NEWS
YES BANK, India's fourth largest private sector bank, has become a signatory to the Natural Capital Declaration (NCD). NCD is a global initiative that affirms the importance of natural capital in maintaining a sustainable global economy. Natural capital ...

NYSE joins UN Sustainable Stock Exchanges Initiative

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUL 2013  |  NEWS
NYSE Euronext, parent company of the New York Stock Exchange, will join the United Nations Sustainable Stock Exchanges (SSE) initiative. The SSE Initiative is co-organized by the UN Global Compact, the UN Conference on Trade and Development, the UN-supported ...

Investor groups call for new climate change policy responses

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 NOV 2012  |  NEWS
A coalition of organisations including the Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC) have called upon the governments of the world's largest economies to engage in a new dialogue on climate change policy ahead of the international climate negotiations ...

UKSIF endorses Natural Capital Declaration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 APR 2012  |  NEWS
The UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association (UKSIF) has joined National Australia Bank and other institutions in endorsing the Natural Capital Declaration, a financial sector declaration to address the use of natural capital by businesses. ...

Investor groups call for climate change policy action

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2011  |  NEWS
Three leading investor groups on climate change, including the Investor Group on Climate Change Australia/New Zealand (IGCC), have called for policy action to stimulate private sector investment into climate change solutions that can create jobs and ...
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