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Top fund CEOs join climate change panel

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 26 OCT 2010
... executives from 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 ...

Australia well behind in carbon pricing

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 19 OCT 2010
... global competitors in terms of carbon pricing and reduction targets. ASX100 companies executive responsibility for climate change reaches 94 per cent, ranking Australia third in Carbon Disclosure Product (CDP) global rank, according to the CDP 2010 Australia ...

Doing good pays off for Christian Super

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 24 SEP 2010
... membership inflows of almost 6 per cent per annum, Murphy said. "Members, who feel passionate about the effects of climate change, the impact of harmful industries such as tobacco and gambling or managing resources sustainably, want to know that their ...

BHP anticipates global carbon price

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 16 SEP 2010
... place." Kloppers recognised that both Australians and BHP Billiton are concerned about the long lasting effects of climate change, and that something needs to be done to deal with the carbon concentration in the atmosphere. "Historically we have expressed ...

AMP hires environment, social governance expert

NEWS RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 7 SEP 2010
... Proviti. At Proviti, he led a team advising blue-chip clients across the sustainable development agenda including climate change and carbon risk, greenhouse gas reporting and verification, emissions trading, investment analysis and sustainability reporting. ...

China's $750bn pledge to clean tech aids sector

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 23 AUG 2010
... investments in these companies or products will offer high profit returns. "The investment opportunity provided by climate change will only continue to grow," said Jordan. However, Jordan acknowledged that there is still a gap between clean tech science ...

Stress test stress

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 JUL 2010
... lose sleep over the cost of milk if the cost of milk were making us lose sleep. They would both do nothing about climate change if that's what the fossil-fuel industry wanted. (All donations in recycled brown paper bags, please.) They would both do whatever ...

Waiting to see

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUN 2010
... femme Prime Minister. What happens to Labour's policy now -- particularly in relation to the "Super Tax" on mining, climate change, asylum seekers, superannuation, the budget, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera? Like Wall Street, we Australians just have to ...

UK green and ethical fund hit $16bn

PRESS RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUN 2010
... and ethical investment funds such as the need to tackle ageing populations, address the global power shortage and climate change are creating attractive business opportunities, which in turn are creating great investment opportunities." Separately, EIRIS ...

Instos still lukewarm on climate change risk

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 16 MAR 2010
Eight super funds, including AustralianSuper, are spearheading the move to better assess climate change risks on long-term returns, but the industry, as a whole, is still moving at a glacial pace on all thing carbon, a survey shows. The joint survey ...