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Climate change good for agriculture

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2008
Australia's reputation as the lucky country could even extend into climate change with the Farm Institute saying it will lead to Australia boosting its agricultural output and becoming wealthier. "Australian agricultural output is projected to continue ...

Carbon assets in valuation freefall

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2008
... don't plan for it. The McKinsey global consulting group echoed the same views in a new report released this week. "Climate change has become a business reality, and executives should get ready for a major shift in the economy. The value at stake is huge," ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 21 APR 2008
... von Drehnen addresses the Committee for Economic Development of Australia on the opportunities and challenges of climate change. On Friday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index fell 89.3 points, or 1.62 per cent, to 5,429.7, while the broader All Ordinaries ...

Food shortages put farmers in box seat

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2008
... inventories reaching some of their lowest levels in years being accompanied by uncertain output volumes due to climate change factors is seeing prices jump almost 50 per cent in the last year. Some food commodities have more than doubled. Meanwhile the ...

Forum 'gets real' on ESG

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2008
... attention last year and we expect it to be a big theme for investment managers going forward," he said. "Dealing with climate change is set to one of the big ideas that will lead a market recovery, as will social themes such as the developments associated ...

Swiss sustainable FUM up 67 per cent

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2008
... sustainable investment market, followed by mandates and structured products at 41 and 3.4 per cent respectively. Climate change, renewable energy, energy efficiency and sustainable water themed investments represented $23.7 billion of the sustainable ...

CARE joins Carbon Disclosure Project

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2008
CARE Super lobbies for better climate change policies after being the latest signatory to the Carbon Disclosure Project. Carbon Disclosure Project is a global not-for-profit group of 385 institutional investors that actively obtain information on company's ...

CSRF drops SIM for AMP

... AMP product has a more recent history than the 10-year old Suncorp product. The [fund] includes the all important climate change issues that confront the world today," it said. Adding to this, the fund chose AMP's product because investors who invest ...

Climate change rhetoric unsustainable

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2008
... principles for responsible investing and we regularly tell countries like the US, China and India to follow our climate change policy lead. But when it comes to practical responses to sustainability our interest quickly falls away, forewarning that meeting ...

Future Fund to adopt ESG

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2008
... government-run funds were making investment decisions that go against the grain of reducing emissions and battling climate change. The study of 36 federal, state and territory investment funds, which boasts $206 billion in assets, found these funds were ...