Browsing: <a href="/tag/renewables-low-emissions">Renewables, low emissions</a> <i class="grey">•</i> <a href="/tag/investor-activity">Investor activity</a>

• Investors wary of green spending targets
  
• EY says state renewables scheme will lower power bills
  
• Apply community test to renewables bids, inquiry recommends

NAB has become the first Australian bank to launch a climate bond, and the first bank globally to have a bond certified under the international Climate Bonds Standard.

As a major super fund divests from AGL due to its coal exposure, investors say Minerals Council criticisms of ethical funds miss the point.

Institutional investors with more than one trillion dollars in funds have published an open letter to Prime Minister Tony Abbott urging him not to wind back the RET target.

The University of Sydney has suspended any further investments in ASX-listed coal companies while it reviews it investment strategy.

AMP Capital says its new restrictions on investing in coal and coal-to-liquids companies will have limited practical effect, but show that investors are alert to massive adjustments taking place in the energy sector.

Institutional investors are ignoring a 'bucket of risks' linked to coal mining, says Ben Caldecott of Oxford University's stranded assets program.

Policy uncertainty about renewables and carbon is 'shining a great big spotlight on the issue of sovereign risk in this country', says a funds manager with $50 billion in assets under management.

• ERF cuts pointless without penalties: Grattan Institute
  
• Low-carbon investment dollars will 'sit on the sidelines'
  
• Seek efficiency gains from existing homes: Master Builders
  
• Carbon price 'costly and ineffective': Refrigerants industry
  
• Farm-based abatement projects won't be the cheapest: NFF

New reports from an Australian group representing funds that manage more than $900 billion warn oil and gas reserves might have to remain unexploited and urge investors to seek climate change risk assessments from owners of large mines.