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Baptist World Aid: labour concerns in electronics' supply chain

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 FEB 2016  |  NEWS
... Baptist World Aid Australia. The 2016 Electronic Industry Trends report graded companies from A to F on policies and mitigation of forced labour, child labour and worker exploitation, reflecting both the management and the transparency companies have ...

Paris Agreement: implications for Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2015  |  NEWS
... text in the agreement that talks about cooperative approaches between countries and the Internationally Transferrable Mitigation Outcomes, or ITMOs, which is really kind of a proxy for a carbon market." There is also a clearly defined role for renewable ...

Paris Agreement refers to mitigation co-benefits

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2015  |  NEWS
... Climate Change Conference, there is reference to the concept that co-benefits of adaptation efforts can contribute to mitigation, which experts believe can open new pathways for projects conducted by Indigenous groups, such as savanna burning. Emily ...

Peter Woolcott outlines Australian priorities for COP21

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2015  |  NEWS
... priorities of success are based on three key pillars - first to see all countries, especially major economies, commit to mitigation efforts that are nationally determined, but also meet minimum quality criteria in mitigation," Woolcott said. " Secondly ...

Mercer speaks on managing future risks, climate change

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2015  |  NEWS
... forthcoming Paris Climate Summit (COP21) where there is a clear focus on engaging private finance to meet the adaptation and mitigation needs to keep the world on a capped path to a 2 degree limit on warming. "For 20 years, governments have been somewhat ...

CDP publishes Aust/NZ climate leaders report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2015  |  NEWS
... out of 100. The climate performance band assesses the level of action, as reported by the company, on climate change mitigation, adaptation and transparency, and is presented as a band from A-E, with an A being the highest. Climate change disclosures ...

Business response to climate change "creative self-destruction"

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 OCT 2015  |  NEWS
... political and social responses to climate change. "We're not going to solve or avoid climate change - we're now in harm mitigation and how do we avoid the nightmare scenario," Wright said. "Business as usual is locking us in to those types of nightmare ...

Industrial relations: a vehicle for climate change mitigation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2015  |  NEWS
... and the Australian Workplace, which explored the work of Linfox and other organisations in the area of climate change mitigation. "This can result in a win/win/win situation, such as the study of Linfox," he said. "They adopted a target for this year ...

Expert panel discusses CSR practices in action

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2015  |  NEWS
... responsibility (CSR) practices can lead to outcomes including retention of staff, creation of new value for shareholders, mitigation of risks, and more efficient allocation of capital, according a panel of experts speaking at the recent launch of the ...

Local Government Super top AODP index

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2015  |  NEWS
... intensity from last year. The AU$7.5 billion fund also "had the widest range of climate change-related portfolio risk mitigation actions of all of the asset owners, including elements like providing guidance to its fund managers; putting a climate risk ...