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Aviva Investors identifies megatrends representing market failures

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
Aviva Investors has identified three megatrends - climate change, biodiversity loss and anti-microbial resistance - that represent market failures that investors should address with companies and government. Steve Waygood, chief responsible investment ...

Collaboration a competitive advantage for super on ESG: NGS Super

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... contributions. We're by no means trying to integrate the SDGs as a tick the box activity - it's more about awareness and understanding risk. We are trying to understand why they were contributing to the SDGs, and that is a piece of work that's ongoing ...

Government appoints Modern Slavery Expert Advisory Group

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... representative of the Australian Fresh Produce Alliance, Liana Allan, founder, Migration Alliance, Ro Coroneos, senior manager, risk - supply chain, Lendlease Corporation, and Sonya Rand, sustainable development manager, Bunnings are part of the advisory ...

OHS, social license to operate identified as infrastructure risks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... equipment and food supplies can make it into the community." In the initial phase, analysts have been focusing on minimising risk to employees and continuing to perform business activity, said Nick Langley, co-CEO and co-CIO of RARE Infrastructure, a ...

Climate action by regulators deferred, not denied: MinterEllison

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... COVID-19 pandemic is not likely to halt regulatory and investor expectations around corporate progress on climate change risk, according to MinterEllison. Sarah Barker, head of climate risk governance at Minter Ellison Lawyers MinterEllison recently ...

AMP Capital regards long term impacts of COVID-19, climate change

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
While business and investment focus in on managing the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change remains a long-term systemic risk that will return to the forefront once the crisis has stabilised, according to AMP Capital. Emily Woodland, head of sustainable ...

ESG focus on climate change, income inequality: T. Rowe Price

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... Elena Drew, Director of Research, Responsible Investing at T. Rowe Price T.Rowe Price noted in its report that climate change risk is rising, but longer-term vulnerabilities are masked by limited impact on near-term cash flows. According to the firm's ...

U Ethical on resilience, engagement during COVID-19

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... will be a period of reflection, and a focus on CSR, because we think that it is an increasingly significant material ESG risk," Laird said. "One thing we feel quite strongly about is that the climate movement doesn't lose too much momentum through this." ...

Poor disclosure around labour hire workforce in listed companies: ACCR

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
More than 40 percent of ASX100 listed companies in the mining, construction, and commercial cleaning sectors have made no material disclosure about their labour hire and/or contracting workforce in annual reporting documents, according to research from ...

BIG W joins Action Collaboration Transformation on Living Wages

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
... Investors and other stakeholders have told The Sustainability Report that maintaining relationships with suppliers is a key risk mitigation strategy during COVID-19, particularly in the garment industry. They have advocated that companies strive to retain ...