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Aviva Investors puts companies on notice over climate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... businesses, the reframing of corporate strategies, business plans and capital frameworks, adjustments to management incentives and lobbying activities. Baig pointed to the example of engaging with oil and gas companies and finding out how net zero commitments ...

Circular economy a key investment theme: American Century

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... the difference between short-termism versus long-termism approach," he said. "There's also the point about government incentives - we believe that when it comes to spurring an SDG revolution, or a rainbow revolution, it will require a regulatory push ...

The conundrum of ESG in emerging markets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... improvement in management which means that they now favour minority shareholder interests. For example, when management incentives become more aligned with minority shareholders' interests, this can unlock value in the share price. But other considerations ...

Companies expect increase in sales linked to sustainability: HSBC

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 3 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... is coming from a broad range of stakeholders - consumers, industry regulators, employees, supply chain, government incentives, and shareholder/owner/investor commitments to business sustainability. The accelerated focus on sustainability has been linked ...

Australia vulnerable as countries decarbonise

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
... we compared what is the CO2 emission per dollar of GDP, and compared that to, effectively, public spending and green incentives as a percentage of GDP. In Australia's case, there's a huge difference between the two. What that means is that there's ...

Waste and recycling legislation to foster circular economy: EY

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
... more responsibility," he said. "Businesses will need to provide better labelling, businesses will need to provide more incentives to collect this back. It will be quite interesting to see how businesses develop take-back initiatives."

Assessing the costs, opportunities to green hydrogen

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
... electrolyser. The point is, once you reach a certain pint, you get the virtuous feedback loop - between public policy incentives and private capital tech response."

AAIB, Amundi launch climate investment framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... "regulatory environment where there are no mandatory requirements for financial firms to provide climate reporting and less incentives to demonstrate climate commitments," Amundi and AAIB said. AAIB is a multilateral development bank with a mission to ...

ARENA allocates $2.17m to Alice Springs grid project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... aggregated and controlled to provide voltage support to the network; tariff reforms to investigate the commercial and other incentives required to encourage a change in consumer behaviour to facilitate higher uptake of household batteries with rooftop ...

Increase in linking environmental, social metrics to remuneration: ISS

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... report prior to the 2020 AGM. Governance experts questioned the utility of linking targets on emissions reductions to incentives. "AGL have clearly made a statement of this," said Vas Kolesnikoff, executive director, head of Australian and New Zealand ...