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The Sustainability Report relaunched as FS Sustainability

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... ESG Integration, which will showcase the best ESG whitepapers published throughout the year and highlight key people and events.

Capacity, resilience and interdependency key engagement topics: Regnan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
Events in 2020, including the bushfire season, the COVID-19 pandemic and the "global conversation on inequality highlighted by the Black Lives Matter movement" have raised the issues of capacity, resilience and interdependency to the forefront of engagements ...

Climate change and public health cannot be viewed in isolation: UNGCNA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... resilience to deal with future crises aligned with a net zero future." Aside from the direct impact on health of extreme weather events such as heatwaves, climate change has the potential to impact Australia's food security through crop damage, the report ...

MSCI launches Real Estate Climate Value-at-Risk solution for investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... Disclosures (TCFD), MSCI said. "Private real estate, as a long-term asset class, is particularly vulnerable to climate-related events," said Jay McNamara, head of real estate at MSCI. "Our research has shown that the potential impact for real estate ...

Pivot to virtual AGMs, communication offer opportunities: Redback Connect

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
Email is the primary communication channel for investor relations, but a push to virtual events as a result of COVID-19 offers new opportunities and benefits for companies to engage with shareholders, according to Redback Connect. Jeff Downs, CEO and ...

GCNA awarded federal grant to provide training on modern slavery

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2020  |  NEWS
... including company-run grievance mechanisms," GCNA said. Guidance will be provided through a series of publications and events. "We are committed to doing what we can to ensure the private sector responds to the risks of modern slavery," said Vanessa ...

Fundamental portfolio managers analyse ESG performance of funds

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 APR 2020  |  NEWS
... way we position our portfolio." Fundamental portfolio managers caution that certain amounts of outperformance stem from events pre-dating the widespread response to coronavirus, and that it can be difficult to establish the precise degree to which non-correlated ...

Australia bears sovereign risk with fossil fuel dependence: Beyond Ratings

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2020  |  NEWS
... meet a 2 degree alignment, physical risk, which reflects the exposure to risks such as sea-level rises and extreme weather events; and resiliency, which measures a country's preparedness and actions to cope with its level of climate related risk exposure," ...

Governance Institute releases climate change risk disclosure guide

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... have clarity on the way forward." The starting point for firms is to understand the scope of potential risks, Motto said. "Events that are happening here and now are certainly materialising those risks for organisations, in terms of climate change risk," ...

Comment: hindsight is 2020

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... will happen to investments if sea levels rise by a metre or more, what will happen if there are more catastrophic weather events, what will happen if there are more claims for the insurance policies? The list of risk questions goes on. What is sometimes ...