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Calculating the social cost of carbon: Dimensional Fund Advisors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... benefits of cutting emissions. These models can help find the optimal carbon tax policy and the associated trajectory for future GHG emissions," Dimensional said in a summary of its recent research into the subject. Dimensional integrates climate risk ...

Australian business face European carbon levy for exports

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... businesses risk having to pay an expensive levy to export goods to the European Union based on the intensity of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions used in making and shipping products. The European Parliament's environment committee recently endorsed ...

Woolworths commits to ambitious GHG emissions cuts

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
Woolworths Group has committed to reducing its scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions by 63% by 2030 in targets endorsed by the Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi). In addition, Woolworths has committed to reduce absolute Scope 3 greenhouse gas ...

Cbus Super announces net zero portfolio emissions target

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... economy companies," Fok said. "So when we looked at the way that they're making decisions, that wasn't explicitly with a GHG budget in mind, but the way we are making money through how they are picking stocks aligns with that aim as well." Setting ...

Climate risk assessment impacts on small, mid-cap portfolios: Fairlight AM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2020  |  NEWS
... a company's fundamentals. When analysing the carbon risks of an individual business, the most widely used framework is the GHG Protocol. The protocol helps to classify emissions into three categories, spanning direct emissions through to indirect ones. ...

ANZ companies report board level climate oversight, more needed: CDP

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 APR 2020  |  NEWS
... Zealand companies, 56% are transition risks and the most common are policy and legal-related, such as increased pricing of GHG emissions, regulations on existing products and services, as well as enhanced emissions-reporting obligations. Given the response ...

Australia bears sovereign risk with fossil fuel dependence: Beyond Ratings

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2020  |  NEWS
... climate risk exposure for investors," Chateau said. In order to be compliant to a 2C warming, the country should decrease its GHG emissions 87% by 2030 according to the Beyond Ratings' Climate Liabilities Assessment Integrated Methodology (CLAIM). "Investors ...

Reports analyse landscape for sustainability disclosures by corporate Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2018  |  NEWS
... that 95 companies, or 48% of the ASX200, disclosed a climate-related policy statement, 112 companies, 56%, reported their GHG emission, 42 companies, 21%, had GHG emission reduction targets, and 22 companies, 11%,reported against the Taskforce for Climate-related ...

Climate Bonds Initiative releases Marine Renewable Energy Criteria

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 OCT 2017  |  NEWS
... Climate Bonds Certification. Anna Creed, head of standards at Climate Bonds Initiative The new criteria outlines disclosure, GHG emission mitigation and climate adaptation and resilience requirements for marine renewable energy technologies and related ...

Globally, few companies can effectively demonstrate climate risk disclosure: SSGA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 AUG 2017  |  NEWS
... Advisors (SSGA). The oil and gas, utilities and mining sectors ("high-impact sectors") account for over one quarter of annual GHG emissions, which accounts for their particular focus. SSGA manages US$2.56 trillion of asset on behalf of its clients as ...