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FTSE Russell adds to local team

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2021
... Pacific. She has previously worked at HESTA, and was also the first chief executive officer of the Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC). The firm has also appointed Martin Orro its head of business development for Pacific, hiring from S&P Global. ...

APRA releases draft climate change guidance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 APR 2021
... and 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 ...

Australian Sustainable Finance Initiative launches

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2020
... Investment Association Australasia, the Australian Banking Association, the Insurance Council or the Investor Group on Climate Change, but will be informed by those groups, he added. "The intention is to establish that permanently, constituted with a ...

Corporate climate risk disclosures must show more: IGCC

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2020
... changes 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 ...

Report reveals superficiality of ESG pledges

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2020
... AustralianSuper, voted down shareholder resolutions on climate change despite signing up to the Investor Group on Climate Change. The Australian Centre for Corporate Responsibility (ACCR) found that eight members of the Investor Group on Climate Change ...

New role for AMP Capital ESG head

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2020
... departed the 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 ...

First carbon neutral super fund named

KRISTI CHENG  |  TUESDAY, 3 SEP 2019
... remaining emissions and publically report on their carbon neutrality". HESTA is a member of the Investor Group on Climate Change and the Climate Action 100+, which push for improved climate change policy and action from governments and organisations ...

Super fund proxy voting behaviour revealed

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAY 2019
... valid 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 ...

Aberdeen Standard hires ESG investment director

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2019
... Innovest prior to joining LGS in September 2010. He currently holds directorship roles at the Investor Group on Climate Change and the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors. Aberdeen Standard's ESG team has more than 50 investment professionals. ...

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 ...