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HESTA ups the ante on AGL, Santos on climate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 8 SEP 2022  |  NEWS
HESTA has placed AGL, Origin, Santos and Woodside on a watchlist over concerns that their stated climate strategies do not meet the transition pathway to containing global warming at 1.5˚C. The $68 billion super fund has also lifted its 2030 emissions ...

Future Fund, UniSuper hire ESG execs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 8 SEP 2022  |  NEWS
... manager. Barns joins the fund from the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors where she has been specialising in climate risk and providing comprehensive research to super funds on how companies approach climate change, decarbonisation and transition ...

Climate skills development needed: University of Technology Sydney

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 8 SEP 2022  |  NEWS
Insights from the UTS Institute for Sustainable Futures has seen 63% of investment professionals admit their climate skills need developing. As reported by sister publication Financial Standard, Research director Alison Atherton offered delegates to ...

Podcast: Finding solutions to meet Net Zero 2050 with Viola Lutz

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 1 SEP 2022  |  NEWS
In this episode of The Greener Way, we speak with Viola Lutz, head of ISS ESG climate solutions. Lutz discusses how ISS ESG approaches climate risk and climate solutions, why quantitative ESG ratings alone aren't a silver bullet and why we have to use ...

No ESG drag seen in performance test results

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 1 SEP 2022  |  NEWS
... challenges over time if not addressed, and perversely deter super funds from taking appropriate and adequate action on climate risks, as they are being encouraged to do by the regulators." Treasury has also released draft legislation that would adjust ...

Sustainable packaging sector set to grow: Nanuk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 1 SEP 2022  |  NEWS
... packaging group Mondi Plc and aseptic packaging leader SIG Group AG. Domestically, the federal Parliament has passed the Climate Change Bill 2022, and seven out of eight Australian states and territories have already committed to ban single-use plastics ...

Why Australian corporations should act on biodiversity loss and management

LOUISE CAMENZULI, JULIA GREEN  |  THURSDAY, 1 SEP 2022  |  NEWS
Climate change and its impacts are increasingly on the radar of corporate boards as a risk that requires integration into short and long term ESG strategies. However, intrinsically related, and often overlooked, are the risks to corporations associated ...

VFMC hires ex-BHP ESG head

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 1 SEP 2022  |  NEWS
... themes that broadly map to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Those priority themes cover governance and culture, climate risk management, modern slavery, human rights, ethical supply chains and labour standards, occupational health and safety ...

Minderoo Foundation, Illumina launch ocean biodiversity DNA project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 25 AUG 2022  |  NEWS
... pollution." Protecting marine biodiversity will impact on food sources, food security and help to manage the effects of climate change. The foundation said that in 2017-2018, Australia's marine industries contributed around $81.2 billion to the economy ...

ACCR files additional claims in Santos lawsuit

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 25 AUG 2022  |  NEWS
... ACCR has now filed to expand its case to include alleged greenwashing in Santos' 2020 Investor Day Briefing and 2021 Climate Change Report, following additional information produced by Santos in the litigation discovery process. "We have now been ...