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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 ...

ASX-listed mining, gas and oil companies lack tax transparency: PWYP

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
ASX-listed mining, gas and oil companies are "falling behind key transparency measures" on disclosing payments to governments in countries in which they operate, according to new research from Publish What You Pay (PWYP) Australia. Robyn Parkin, sustainability ...

Research project to study sustainable forestry in East Arnhem

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... of activities," said Jordy Bowman CEO of DEAL. " Gumatj Corporation has already been harvesting timber from a Rio Tinto mining site, and they are looking at how we could expand out to other available markets and other regions. There has been interest ...

Taking a closer look at corporate lobbying on climate change

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... industry associations, undermining their credibility and their social licence to operate, as we have seen, for example, in the mining industry. Concerns about the implications of corporate lobbying on policy decisions are not merely theoretical. For ...

First State Super-backed Victorian fund makes first investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... least 30% by 2023. The threshold for divestment is companies that derive more than 10% of their revenue from thermal coal mining. The newly announced Climate Change Portfolio Transition Plan builds on the fund's 2015 climate change adaption plan, and ...

First State Super targets 30% emissions reduction in equities portfolio

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... least 30% by 2023. The threshold for divestment is companies that derive more than 10% of their revenue from thermal coal mining. The newly announced Climate Change Portfolio Transition Plan builds on the fund's 2015 climate change adaption plan, and ...

HESTA to move to net zero carbon emissions in portfolio by 2050

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... emissions reduction targets on an annual basis. HESTA was the first major Australian super fund to place a thermal coal mining restriction across all investment options and recently extended this restriction to further eliminate the financing of potentially ...

Australian companies below global peers on reporting, targets: Refinitiv

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... companies lagged on disclosing these targets, Coombs said. Further, Australia's company set was tilted towards sectors such as mining and resources, which have greater exposure to carbon emissions than other sectors, Coombs added. "What's striking is ...

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 ...

AXA IM develops carbon footpath strategy based on forward climate action

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... regulation or changes in technology." "Carbon emissions are heavily skewed into the utilities, energy, industrials, and mining sectors," McDonald said. "If we really want to attack the biggest problem areas in the economy, we can start by looking critically ...