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Stewardship part of fiduciary role and investment opportunity: BNP Paribas AM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUL 2023  |  NEWS
... Initiative, the Paris-Aligned Investment Initiative, and the Investor Agenda. She also launched and led AIGCC's Asia Utilities Engagement Program, a collaborative engagement program that runs in parallel to Climate Action 100+. "I think that engagement ...

A new "nuclear renaissance" for investors: Maple-Brown Abbott

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 15 JUN 2023  |  NEWS
... term, according to Maple-Brown Abbott. "With the main focus being on energy security, a re-contracting cycle by western utilities companies, and a supply side not yet incentivised to significantly increase production [of uranium] at current prices," ...

Climate engagement escalation vital to responsible investing: Aviva Investors

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUN 2023  |  NEWS
... across equity and credit portfolios and focused on 30 of the worst emitters from the oil and gas, mining, steel and utilities sectors making up approximately a third of all global emissions, considering their Scope 3 footprint. "We have expanded our ...

Weighing ESG risks of nickel as a critical mineral: ISS ESG

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 27 APR 2023  |  NEWS
... been able to increase their mining production, but at what cost," said Nicolaj Sebrell, head of energy, materials, and utilities, ISS ESG. "Indonesia has seen problems that we have seen in other countries with mining, such as tailings release into rivers ...

Reducing carbon emissions without affecting tracking error: Realindex

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 13 APR 2023  |  NEWS
... Walsh. The research found that by optimizing for a lower carbon intensity, exposures to higher-carbon sectors such as utilities are reduced "somewhat". Realindex also found that there is an approximately exponential relationship between increasing the ...

Modern slavery, just transition, tax key themes: Robeco

ROSE MARY PETRASS  |  THURSDAY, 13 APR 2023  |  NEWS
... carbon economy, particularly in phasing out fossil fuels. It will focus on high emissions sectors including energy, utilities, mining, manufacturing and construction. tackling tax transparency will improve the transparency of companies over their tax ...

Investors flag decarbonisation, real world impacts as priorities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAR 2023  |  NEWS
... tradeoffs and near-term pullbacks." Those tradeoffs and return considerations are very apparent in the energy, materials and utilities sector (EMUs), Moret said. "Decarbonising an economy where a significant chunk of the equity market is so highly concentrated ...

Podcast: Decarbonisation and the EMUs - Julie Moret

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAR 2023  |  NEWS
... (it involves returning it in a more sustainable condition than you received it) and why the EMUs (energy, mining and utilities companies) are a focus area for decarbonisation. Julie joined NTAM in 2021 and oversees the firm's sustainable investing ...

Deloitte launches green tech initiative for business

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 12 JAN 2023  |  NEWS
... reach a valuation of around US$16.9 billion by the end of 2022, with demand growing rapidly across industries including utilities, power and energy, transportation and logistics, and oil and gas. "The first thing that we're seeing is that in order to ...

Global green bond market continues to grow

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 20 OCT 2022  |  NEWS
... much more diversified," said Jérôme Broustra. "A few years ago, green bond issuance was tilted towards and driven by utilities and quasi-sovereign, and now we have a much more granular footprint with a lot of sovereigns and corporates issuing green ...