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Infrastructure investment needs rethink

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JAN 2018
... Burke said infrastructure networks and systems around the globe are under considerable strain. "Amid urbanisation, climate change and the dizzying pace of technological advances, just narrowing the gap that exists is no longer a sufficient goal. What's ...

French giant intensifies action on global warming

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 12 DEC 2017
... challenges we face: access to drinking water; an agricultural model that can feed all; or managing migration caused by climate change. And we must meet these challenges without denying developing countries the right to deliver economic prosperity to ...

BetaShares launches Australian ESG fund

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 DEC 2017
... new product follows the launch of the BetaShares Global Sustainability Leader ETF (ETHI). Investing in 100 global climate change leaders across developed markets, excluding Australia, the ETHI only invests in companies that are more than 60% more carbon ...

Deutsche AM maps impact of climate risk

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 14 NOV 2017
... Deutsche said the new map provides credible insight into the vulnerability of corporate production and retail sites to climate change as factors such as sea level rise, droughts, flooding and cyclones pose an immediate and measurable threat to investment ...

Shareholders need greater voice on ESG: ACSI

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 30 OCT 2017
... permitted, we have seen shareholders use them to improve company disclosure on risks associated with sustainability, climate change and labour and human rights," she said. ACSI commissioned a research report to examine the current framework and develop ...

Standard Life launches impact fund, appoints managers

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 19 OCT 2017
... shifting the might of the capital market to change the world for the better. The world faces numerous challenges, from climate change and poverty, to inequality and pollution," Aberdeen Standard global head of stewardship and ESG investment Euan Stirling ...

Super funds partner to tackle the coal problem

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 10 OCT 2017
... long-term 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 ...

CBA climate risk court case abandoned

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 22 SEP 2017
... Shareholders attempting to take the Commonwealth Bank to the Federal Court for historically failing to disclose climate change risks in its annual reports have withdrawn the claim. Legal correspondence between social justice group Environmental Justice ...

CBA commits to bond-structured climate change solutions

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 AUG 2017
... financial year, has partnered with the Climate Bonds Initiative to support its mission to mobilise the bond market for climate change solutions. "Commonwealth Bank has demonstrated best practice in pre-issuance preparation and certification, which has ...

New Zealand super goes green

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 15 AUG 2017
... Energy and NZ Oil and Gas. This, according to fund chief executive Adrian Orr, makes the fund more resilient to climate change investment risks such as stranded assets, and brings its focus on addressing climate change risk in line with current global ...