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SASB Foundation appoints Marc Siegel to SASB Board

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2019  |  NEWS
The SASB Foundation has appointed Marc A. Siegel to serve on the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB). Siegel joins SASB after almost 10 years as a board member of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB). He is currently a partner ...

Coca Cola, WWF-Australia, farmers mark 10 years of Project Catalyst

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 DEC 2018  |  NEWS
... gain as well." The project has gone from strength to strength, said Sarah Prestwood, senior public affairs and sustainability manager at Coca-Cola South Pacific. "Through Project Catalyst, we know that the projects leads to better water outcomes, improves ...

Potentially hazardous ingredients in consumer products as investment risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 DEC 2018  |  NEWS
... consumer products are not considering potentially hazardous ingredient responsibility and its relationship to company sustainability, according to research from the Institute for Sustainable Futures (ISF) at the University of Technology. Source: Institute ...

Big data, ESG ratings can combine to unlock investment return: TruValue

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 DEC 2018  |  NEWS
... with ESG performance scores from MSCI, and concluded that there is a valuation premium for companies with strong sustainability performance, and that the premium is increasing as a function of positive public sentiment momentum. "An ESG factor going ...

Ausbil Investment Management launches Active Sustainable Equity Fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 21 DEC 2018  |  NEWS
... Investment Management has launched the Ausbil Active Sustainable Equity Fund. The fund "invests in companies with sound sustainability profiles and avoids companies that are vulnerable to long-term earnings risk from sustainability weaknesses," Ausbil ...

Digitalization a megatrend with risks as well as opportunities: Morphosis

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2018  |  NEWS
... what we need to avoid.... Digitalization needs a mature debate in that regards, and we need to see it as a real sustainability narrative." Carter applies thinking around digitalization to real estate and cities in a paper entitled Crossing the Threshold. ...

Companies engage with material human rights issues: BCSD Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2018  |  NEWS
... organisations consider human rights material, but only 23% of companies mention a specific human rights strategy in their sustainability reports. Andrew Petersen, CEO, Sustainable Business Australia WCBSD has released its Human Rights Deep Dive Analysis ...

Lawsuit against ExxonMobil heightens Australian directors climate risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2018  |  NEWS
... as are regulators, as mentioned, and banks with a trend towards differential pricing of interest rates, based on sustainability credentials, emerging in both commercial lending and residential mortgages in Europe. Barker is special counsel at MinterEllison ...

Sustainable Business Australia names John Hewson chair

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2018  |  NEWS
... Opposition for four years "John is a highly respected economic and business leader with a long track record on sustainability and action on climate change dating back to his ambitious emission reduction policy in 1993," said outgoing chair and director ...

New Forests joins World Business Council on Sustainable Development

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 16 OCT 2018  |  NEWS
... particular focus on the WBCSD's work in relation to climate-smart land use, the "alignment of retirement assets with sustainability challenges," and work to align the forestry sector with the low carbon economy, said David Brand, New Forests CEO. "We've ...