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GreenCollar secures funding for Queensland carbon farming projects

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... managers and landholders with the support to generate additional, regular and diverse income streams and protect their business, using established scientific methodologies that measure carbon abatement and sequestration activities and can be used to ...

Paradice Investment Management appoint head of ESG

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
Paradice Investment Management has hired Nicholas Varcoe as head of ESG. Varcoe will work with the Paradice investment teams to "drive forward the integration of ESG factors, including climate change and modern slavery, in investment decision-making ...

Do founder-led listed companies outperform on E, S and G metrics?

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... and debt than companies led by professional [non-founder] management, because they don't want to risk the long term business to make the short term look good," said Ian Carmichael, portfolio manager and partner, Fairlight Asset Management. "Those ...

Australia "woefully unprepared": Australian Climate Roundtable

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... National Cabinet, according to the Australian Climate Roundtable. The Australian Climate Roundtable is an alliance of business, investor, union and civil society organisations including the Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC). The group notes that ...

HESTA issues Statement on Working with Indigenous Communities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
HESTA will directly engage with 14 mining and energy companies on working with Indigenous communities, with a focus on understanding how companies manage risks associated with Indigenous heritage protection. In the wake of the destruction of the Juukan ...

More companies reporting on SDGs, but quality lacking: RMIT

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... looked at corporate sustainability reports from the top 150 Australian public-listed companies (ASX150) to assess how each business had measured and disclosed their awareness of, commitment to and progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) ...

CFA Institute developing disclosure standards for ESG products

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... Exclusions: Excludes securities, issuers, or companies from the investment product based on certain ESG-related activities, business practices, or business segments. 3. Best-in-Class: Aims to invest in companies and issuers that perform better than peers ...

Walk Free launches human rights toolkit for business, investors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
Walk Free, an initiative of the Minderoo Foundation, have launched a toolkit to help business and investors take action to improve human rights standards in their supply chains and combat forced labour, human trafficking and other forms of modern slavery. ...

Australian business environment amongst world's most resilient: FM Global

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
Australia's business environment is "amongst the world's most resilient", particularly around supply chain resilience, but is exposed to a number of risks, including cyber risk, oil intensity and corporate governance, according to commercial insurer ...

Investors to increase climate-linked passive investments: DWS Group

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... companies as well as pension investors; and California's Insurance Commissioner's ruling that insurance companies doing business in his state have to divest from companies that derive 30% or more of their revenues from thermal coal holdings. "In Europe ...