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Climate change high on agenda for Oliver Yates parliamentary bid

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2019  |  NEWS
Climate change will be one of the most pressing issues of the forthcoming federal election, no more so than in the Melbourne electorate of Kooyong, where former Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) CEO Oliver Yates is running as an independent challenger ...

Australia, EU Free Trade Agreement includes SDGs, climate change

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2019  |  NEWS
The Australian government and the European Union (EU) are currently negotiating a free trade agreement (FTA) that will not only serve to strengthen trade between the two economies, but also contains language with specific reference to commitments from ...

Impact Investing Australia to administer $7m Australian government fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2018  |  NEWS
... federal government has selected Impact Investing Australia (IIA) as the administrator of the $7 million Australian Government Sector Readiness Fund (SRF) to enable social enterprises to grow their impact. IIA, a not-for-profit organisation supporting ...

Core Civic, GEO Group flagged for ESG controversies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2018  |  NEWS
... in Abuse campaign, which targeted Broadspectrum (now part of Ferrovial) for taking on a contract with the Australian government on 24 February 2014 to provide garrison and welfare services at detention centres in Nauru and Manus Island, aand Wilson Security ...

40% of ASX200 fall short of the carbon reduction requirements: MSCI

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 16 OCT 2018  |  NEWS
... of ASX200 companies fell short of the carbon reduction requirements under the current target set by the Australian Government under its Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC). This increases to 52% if the Australian Government strengthens its carbon ...

ACCR files resolution to Qantas AGM over deportations and removals

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2018  |  NEWS
... particularly as information used in determination processes is not publicly available. To do so would undermine the Australian Government, the judicial system and their processes. This view is supported by the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business ...

US activists target banks over finance to for-profit prisons, detention centres

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2018  |  NEWS
... in Abuse campaign, which targeted Broadspectrum (now part of Ferrovial) for taking on a contract with the Australian government on 24 February 2014 to provide garrison and welfare services at detention centres in Nauru and Manus Island, aand Wilson Security ...

ACCR, CAER study gender pay gap at ASX100 companies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2018  |  NEWS
... report, Gender pay equity and Australian listed companies, ranks ASX100 companies required to disclose to the Australian government's Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA). The report notes that nine ASX100 companies do not have to disclose such information. ...

Cbus Super makes first direct infrastructure investment into renewable energy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... and the Dutch Infrastructure Fund (DIF) will own 80.1% equity in the portfolio, while Synergy, the West Australian government-owned electricity generator and retailer, will own the remaining 19.9%. This is the first deal done by the $43 billion industry ...

Government finds no legislative barriers to implementing TCFD

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... exposure and how this risks is being managed," said Fiona Reynolds, CEO of the PRI. "We strongly urge the Australian government to endorse the TCFD recommendations and implement legislation that would require companies to disclose climate risk."