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Climate change high on agenda for Oliver Yates parliamentary bid

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2019  |  NEWS
Climate change will be one of the most pressing issues of the forthcoming federal election, no more so than in the Melbourne electorate of Kooyong, where former Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) CEO Oliver Yates is running as an independent challenger ...

Australia, EU Free Trade Agreement includes SDGs, climate change

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2019  |  NEWS
... contains language with specific reference to commitments from both sides around the Sustainable Development Goals, climate change, environmental and labour standards. Andrew Petersen, CEO, Sustainable Business Australia Since 2015, the European Union ...

Human rights, trust, climate risk top sustainability agenda for 2019

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2019  |  NEWS
... saw turning out to the end of last year - the trust agenda," said Matthew Bell, Asia Pacific managing partner of climate change and sustainability services at EY. "With the Royal Commission closing the curtain on its recent investigations and a few other ...

Natixis joins the Climate Bonds Initiative Partners Program

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2019  |  NEWS
... goals. "Natixis has been active in green finance with a long-standing commitment towards sustainability and tackling climate change," said Serena Vento, Head of Partnerships & Commercial Relationships, Climate Bonds Initiative. "We are delighted to join ...

Digitalization a megatrend with risks as well as opportunities: Morphosis

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2018  |  NEWS
... conference in Melbourne, noting that digitalization sits alongside of other trends such as urbanisation, globalisation, climate change, and resource security and as such, digitalization must now become sustainable. "At the moment, the discussion around ...

Companies engage with material human rights issues: BCSD Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2018  |  NEWS
... response to handle situation that cross multiple topics. "The interesting differentiator here in comparison to climate change and biodiversity, the work on human rights takes a workshop approach, as distinct from setting up scaled, siloed committees," ...

Lawsuit against ExxonMobil heightens Australian directors climate risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2018  |  NEWS
... against ExxonMobil by the New York state attorney general for allegedly misleading investors of the risks that climate change regulations posed to its business should be a warning sign for Australian directors. Sarah Barker, special counsel, Minter Ellison ...

Sustainable Business Australia names John Hewson chair

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2018  |  NEWS
... "John is a highly respected economic and business leader with a long track record on sustainability and action on climate change dating back to his ambitious emission reduction policy in 1993," said outgoing chair and director, Jacqueline Fegent-McGeachie ...

A4S to address sustainability, disclosure at World Congress of Accountants

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 16 OCT 2018  |  NEWS
... the mainstream fund managers." A4S also has a network of pension fund trustee chairs to share knowledge around climate change risk and mitigation and sustainability issues more generally. "That appreciation of the financial materiality that these issues ...

BayernLB joins Climate Bond Initiative as Climate Bonds Partner

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 16 OCT 2018  |  NEWS
... increasing momentum in Germany, led by institutions like BayernLB. To address the ever-more threatening impacts of climate change, it is time for all German market players to prioritize and work together in scaling domestic and international investment ...