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PRI augments Australian team with hires

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 31 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... the NSW Supreme Court and High Court of Australia. She is based in Sydney and will be involved in the Legal Framework for Impact initiative and oversee related sustainable finance policy developments in Australia. PRI supports 4,000 signatories globally ...

New Climate Action 100 engagement to tackle food and beverage sector

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 31 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... decision-making processes and procurement policies, incentivising and supporting agricultural producers to reduce the climate impact of crop and livestock production and enhance agricultural carbon sequestration and transitioning to more efficient and ...

ASX companies not disclosing labour hire risks: ACCR

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
A minority of ASX-listed companies are reporting on their labour hire, contracting and outsourcing workforce arrangements, which poses a risk in assessing the long-term viability of workforce strategies. The Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility ...

Greenwashing a challenge to sustainable investing

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 26 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... "Engagement itself is part of our integrated approach to investing. Investors are increasingly seeking information on the impact of their portfolios, and Schroders is developing a proprietary tool, SustainEx, which measures the positive and negative ...

Santos sued over clean energy, net zero claims

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 26 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
Oil and gas producer Santos' claims that natural gas provides clean energy and that the company has a pathway to net zero emissions by 2040 will be challenged in federal court. The Australasian Centre for Corporate Responsibility (ACCR) has filed a ...

Conscious Investment Management grows team

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 26 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... chief investment officer, Matthew Tominc. "Tenielle joins at an exciting time for Conscious Investment Management and the impact investment market more broadly, which is increasingly showing the power of financial capital to have a sustainable, positive ...

Significant cuts to industrial emissions required: Grattan Institute

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... with 80% of those emissions coming from 194 large facilities. Curbing emissions from these facilities will have a material impact on the likelihood of reaching net zero emissions by 2050. The report notes Australia has even less time if it is to reach ...

Andrew Forrest steps up No Pain No Fear campaign

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... Forrest said. "Moving the fish farms with the better technology we now do have into deep water or high current where the impact on the ocean floor is zero, and land-based fish farming." Forrest says the technology improvements to ensure No Pain, No Fear ...

Opinion: Mind the gap: Investors continue to stall on climate action, despite sentiment confirming its risks

DAVID KLAUSNER  |  FRIDAY, 20 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... an important issue for their organization, and roughly 60% of the investors believe climate change has already begun to impact their portfolios. Despite this wide recognition of the issue, however, there is an "action gap" where significantly fewer have ...

Gender pay gaps "sabotage" diversity, profits: UniSA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 19 AUG 2021  |  NEWS
... causation because we have ten years of data," Gould said. "We looked at the gender pay gap in one year and compared it to the impact on performance the next year. Based on that we can establish some level of causation. It is strongly suggested here." ...