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Aviva and NGOs welcome Standard Chartered's coal mine withdrawal
12 August 2015Standard Chartered's decision to withdraw its support from the giant Carmichael coal mine in Australia has been welcomed by a leading investor.
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Standard Chartered pulls out of giant coal project in Australia
11 August 2015Standard Chartered has ceased its involvement with the controversial Carmichael coal mine in Australia, following a court ruling that overturned the Canberra government's approval of the project.
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RobecoSAM to decarbonise, but rejects outright fossil fuel divestment
07 August 2015Sustainable investment specialist RobecoSAM has intensified its efforts to address its carbon risk, but prefers "a more nuanced approach" than outright fossil fuel divestment.
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Trucost and Threshold to help investors measure carbon risk
06 August 2015The growing number of family offices and foundations embracing the Divest/Invest initiative will benefit from a partnership between Trucost and Threshold Group to help them assess carbon risk in their portfolios.
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FTSE creates indexes to exclude coal
30 July 2015FTSE Russell has extended its range of fossil-fuel free indexes with a new series excluding coal and mining firms, as the divestment movement gathers pace.
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Real estate sector faces stranded asset risk, green bonds could help, says HSBC
23 July 2015Green bonds will increasingly be used to adapt buildings to make them more resilient to climate change, as the real estate sector faces up to its own version of 'stranded asset' risk, a report has predicted.
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South Pole and Fossil Free Indexes join forces
15 July 2015Carbon reduction specialist South Pole Group has teamed up with research firm Fossil Free Indexes (FFI) in a collaboration that could lead to the creation of new low-carbon indexes and investment products.
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Parametric to screen equities against coal and tar sands
09 July 2015US asset management firm Parametric has introduced two new screening processes to enable investors to blacklist major coal and tar sands stocks.
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Time to believe in miracles?
08 July 2015Numerous policy announcements and actions from companies are helping to put climate change firmly on the agenda, fuelling hopes of a meaningful climate agreement in Paris in December, says Peter Cripps
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Emissions limits threaten $283bn of potential LNG projects, says think tank
07 July 2015Some $283 billion of potential liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects could be rendered uneconomic by efforts to combat global warming, a think tank has warned.