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CBA commits to bond-structured climate change solutions

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 AUG 2017
... reconcile with its continued multi-billion dollar lending to highly-exposed fossil fuel projects and dismal climate change policy," Market Forces executive director Julien Vincent said. "As such a huge part of Australia's economy, CommBank needs to take ...

Industry realigns for climate change

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 21 FEB 2017
... structural reform needed, nor meet the international commitments we have made. Investors need a long-term climate change policy framework to ensure an orderly transition to a low-carbon future."

Super fund support for carbon tax

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 2 JUL 2012
... volatility and uncertainty in global financial markets. "A policy that addresses a long-term issue, such as a climate change policy, should not be postponed due to comparatively short-term volatility," the submission said. Speaking to Financial Standard ...

Top fund CEOs join climate change panel

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 26 OCT 2010
... some of Australia's biggest super funds and investment managers have formed a panel to ramp up talks on climate change policy, including the design of a carbon price in Australia. The panel includes Ian Silk, of AustralianSuper, the country's largest ...

Australia well behind in carbon pricing

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 19 OCT 2010
... into clear targets for emissions reduction. We believe this is directly influenced by uncertainty around climate change policy settings in Australia," said Nathan Fabian, chief executive officer, Investor Group on Climate Change. The report found that ...

ETS collapse threatens ESG

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 15 MAR 2010
... said the uncertainty is forcing them to develop alternative models based on each major political party's climate change policy settings. "Its had a big impact on a finance analyst perspective because the ETS is a market-based mechanism, so it becomes ...

Climate change rhetoric unsustainable

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2008
... principles for responsible investing and we regularly tell countries like the US, China and India to follow our climate change policy lead. But when it comes to practical responses to sustainability our interest quickly falls away, forewarning that meeting ...

Retail profits, currency price cuts and ag-flation

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 3 MAR 2008
... gives a tougher economic edge to the opportunity costs of not finally resolving our water management and climate change policy problems. The wheat price spikes are so strong that in some wheat exporting countries, for example Kazakhstan, the government ...
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