Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 61 - 70 of 839 results for "Carbon"

CEFC invests $100m into affordable housing strategy

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2025
... Housing will manage the property after completion late this year. The units align with the International Energy Agency's zero-carbon buildings approach to energy efficiency, full electrification, and renewables capabilities. Future projects will target ...

Subscription EVs attract HESTA, IFM interest

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2025
... and energy transition objectives. Splend's fleet of electric vehicles in Australia and the UK are already reducing carbon emissions by over 19,000tCO2e per annum." For HESTA's part, chief investment officer Sonya Sawtell-Rickson said the investment ...

BlackRock loses senior executive touted as Fink's successor

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2025
... strategies, and whole portfolio mandates. Since 2019, Wiedman has sponsored BlackRock's efforts in transitioning to a low-carbon economy, growing sustainable investments from US$107 billion to $1 trillion. From 2011 to 2019, Wiedman served as global ...

ESG linked to pay in top APAC listed firms

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2025
... prevalence of ESG measures in executive incentives, we haven't seen significant change over the past year," Ganu said. Carbon most unpopular metric ESG metrics are most often used in 64% of short-term incentive plans, while only 30% of companies used ...

IFM adds ex-CIO to equities team

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 19 DEC 2024
... academia. His expertise will be invaluable as we continue our research and portfolio management for factor, ESG, and low-carbon strategies," he said. "Roger's experience with adding alpha to ESG-based Equities strategies will be particularly useful ...

World on the brink: Frontier Advisors

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2024
... climate crisis is stalling, which Frontier said raises risks for investors, and the world more broadly. The report noted carbon emissions continue to rise, and the longer the transition is delayed, the more challenging it becomes to achieve 'net zero' ...

HMC Capital makes $950m acquisition

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 5 DEC 2024
... acquisition was an exciting and significant step in HMC's ambition to be a champion in Australia's transition to a net zero carbon economy by 2050. "This is a marquee acquisition to future seed HMC's energy transition platform, encompassing a diverse ...

Commonwealth Bank names chief economist

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 5 DEC 2024
... growth of the bank's sustainable economics research to support customers with insights about the transition to a lower-carbon future.

CFS awards equity, infrastructure mandates

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 26 NOV 2024
... infrastructure is at the forefront of some of the world's most powerful mega-trends such as the green transition to a lower-carbon world, climate adaption, energy security, the shortening of supply chains and the digitalisation transformation that ...

Super funds set renewables targets

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 25 NOV 2024
... Agreement's 1.5 degree target, despite widespread commitments to net zero by 2050. The tool - RealZero Check - applies the carbon budgets necessary to limit warming to 1.5 degrees on a sector-by-sector basis so investors can see how investments stack ...