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Social issues come to fore in 2020: Ausbil

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2021  |  NEWS
... Ausbil also participated in engagements with Rio Tinto after the Juukan Gorge incident in May 2020, as well as with other mining companies, as well as focusing on risks of waste and the circular economy, leading towards further discussions of climate ...

Assessing climate risk in corporate bond portfolios

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 25 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... It does remain the case that you do still want to be involved in every single sector, and some, such as the metals and mining sector, tend to have higher emissions. If you're in a bond that we feel is really responding to the engagement, we would ...

Investors lag in integrating climate risk: PGIM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 25 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... industries will outperform, and the role of active investment such as engagement can be used to influence fossil fuel users and mining companies to integrate more sustainable practices. "It's also true that the inevitable transition will take longer ...

Ausbil drops fossil fuel companies from sustainable fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... tobacco, weapons and armaments, and pornography. The exclusion list has been expanded to include investing in exploration, mining and/or the distribution of fossil fuels, including oil, gas, oil sands and all coal. This fund excludes two types of companies ...

Aviva Investors puts companies on notice over climate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2021  |  NEWS
... action over the next three to five years." The engagement programme includes companies from the oil and gas, metals and mining and utilities sectors, which Aviva Investors notes "substantially contribute to total global carbon emissions." The engagement ...

Rio leadership overhaul aimed at restoring trust, license to operate

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 28 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... for health and community services, crafted a statement on working with Indigenous communities and wrote to 14 Australian mining and energy companies on how to manage risks associated with Indigenous heritage protection issues. HESTA weighed in on the ...

Circular economy a key investment theme: American Century

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... Century. "The entire global value chain needs to be rethought and constructed to become more of a closed loop system, from the mining and resourcing of raw materials to the end of life management," Mascotto said. "The circular concept means we should ...

Translating net zero goals into near-term decisions: Robeco

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2021  |  NEWS
... progress in accordance with our program, we can ultimately look at divestment." The second wave sectors include autos, mining, transport, airlines, and chemicals. The pathway scenarios that Robeco develops for the key sectors will be used to benchmark ...

Report calls out AIA's coal-based assets, policy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 22 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... intensity of our investment portfolio. This includes the decision to end all direct equity balance sheet investments in coal mining and coal-fired power generation earlier this year, and carrying out a full review of all other coal-related investments ...

Auction system proposed to halve electricity emissions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 22 DEC 2020  |  NEWS
... will be impact on communities - there are 10,000 workers on the coal fired industry as well as the workers in the coal mining industry." Blueprint Institute is a new think tank that launched this year, and is backed by