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APRA releases draft climate change guidance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 APR 2021
... opportunities that the transition to a low carbon economy creates." Emma Herd, CEO of the Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC) says the guide will "go a long way to consolidating the accelerating action across the financial sector to address the systemic ...

Corporate climate risk disclosures must show more: IGCC

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2020
... to understand how the risk information translates into action. The latest report by the Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC), Full Disclosure: Improving corporate reporting on climate risk, found that improvements are needed in climate risk disclosure ...

Report reveals superficiality of ESG pledges

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2020
... ACCR found the group did not appear to ask members to disclose their proxy voting records. Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC) chief executive Emma Herd said: "IGCC doesn't make recommendations to members about individual resolution votes or act ...

New role for AMP Capital ESG head

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2020
... lead ESG role at the end of 2019. Woods was also a founder of the Australia/New Zealand Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC) and was deputy chair until 2019. Chronos Sustainability chief executive Rory Sullivan said Woods' experience made him ...

Super fund proxy voting behaviour revealed

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAY 2019
... excuses for not supporting proposals of this nature, particularly when groups like the Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC) are making similar demands of companies." ACCR is urging Australian super funds to support shareholder proposals at Chevron ...

Institutional investors call out climate policy

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 FEB 2019
... Solutions Package as "more of the same", failing to properly address climate change risks. The Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC) said the package will not address "the risks to the Australian economy that climate change represents nor will it unlock ...

HESTA veteran retires, new role created

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 14 FEB 2019
... board and the BT Governance Advisory Service. He was on the management committee of the Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC) for more than a decade, and currently chairs ESG Research Australia. His experience outside of HESTA includes working at BT ...

Industry fund chief exits

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 5 NOV 2018
... in Melbourne. Pegan was known for his climate change activism. He was named chair of the Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC) in 2009 and enlisted Catholic Super as a signatory to the UN Principles of Responsible Investment and Investor Statement ...

Super funds partner to tackle the coal problem

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 10 OCT 2017
... viability of the coal sector in Australia. Cbus and First State Super, working with the Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC) and EY, prepared a report which outlines how the energy sector is gradually transitioning away from coal and where new investment ...

Super funds condemn Trump climate withdrawal

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUN 2017
... ACSI members also issued their own statements criticising the withdrawal. Representing the Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC), Cbus chair Steve Bracks said "climate change poses real and material financial risks. Cbus is taking active steps to responsibly ...