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Assessing climate risk in corporate bond portfolios

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 25 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... look at the management track record and at how incentives such as board compensation are linked to achieving a greener business model, Gazzola said. "The first stage is that dialogue, to understand if there are qualitative and quantitative factors that ...

Social, governance risks to unequal global vaccine distribution

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 25 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... back fairer - not just better - post pandemic, said Clare Payne, EY Fellow for Trust and Ethics. "In recent years, the business community has made public commitments to operating for good and with 'purpose' - now they must put these words and ...

Guide to assist financial sector in Modern Slavery risk management

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 25 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... a risk-based approach, Brodie said. "A risked-based company response should be based on the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human rights, where you seek to understand and ultimately manage human rights risks and you focus on the risks where the ...

APA Group sets net zero targets for emissions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 25 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... APA Group will set the targets for 2050 in future. Energy transition was a significant area of focus for APA, with the business increasingly looking to opportunities to invest in new energy sources and technologies, as well as opportunities to grow APA's ...

Majority of CFOs see ESG's importance to business

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 25 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... Australian CFOs see environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) considerations as important to most parts of their business, according to the latest Deloitte CFO sentiment survey. The most recent sentiment survey, covering the second half of ...

Coca-Cola Amatil sets net zero carbon targets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 25 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... acknowledged. "I think overall, we've been able to say that most of these ambitions will deliver efficiencies for the business," she said. "There will be some cost savings, but there will be other areas where depending on how tech develops in future ...

Rio Tinto commits to climate vote at AGM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... will allow shareholders a vote on their climate plans," Gocher said. ""Currently, Santos and Woodside targets amount to business-as-usual, relying largely on buying cheap carbon offsets in the short term, and unproven technologies-like carbon, capture ...

Australian business face European carbon levy for exports

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... number of jurisdictions, which have set the target dates to become carbon neutral," said Andrew Petersen, CEO of the Business Council for Sustainable Development Australia (BCSDA). "Using carbon taxes and other forms of market-based measures, they come ...

BetaShares to launch climate change innovation ETF

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... we believe is a long-term megatrend." Companies with revenues from fossil fuel activities, and certain other negative business activities, will be excluded. "The scale of the challenge the world faces means that innovation is called for in a range of ...

Ausbil drops fossil fuel companies from sustainable fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... opportunity set, as well as indirect exposures to decarbonisation like Macquarie Group, which has named decarbonisation as business theme. "We know the UN has called climate change the defining issue of our time, and for us as investors we have to look ...