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PRI active on climate change, tax avoidance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2015  |  NEWS
... Climate Change Conference (COP 21), which starts on 30 November. "We have a tax working group," Reynolds told The Sustainability Report. "What we've been working on in a package of guidance documents as background material. A lot of what we do is collaborative ...

KPMG Australia buys Banarra

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2015  |  NEWS
... social impact expertise to KPMG Australia, said Adrian King, PMG Australia's partner in charge of climate change and sustainability services. "The interest for us is being able to deliver a deep capability in human rights and community rights consulting," ...

Inflection Point Capital Management launches Zero Carbon

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2015  |  NEWS
... European fund manager with approximately US$50 billion in assets under management. Inflection Point is following a "sustainability alpha" investment thesis, according to the firm, and looking to invest in companies that show agility and innovation. Inflection ...

Emma Herd appointed IGCC CEO

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2015  |  NEWS
... IGCC Herd formally begins her new role on 10 August, and comes to the IGCC from Westpac, where she was head of sustainability. "Emma brings extensive experience to the role in translating policy into practice, having been at the forefront of climate ...

Regnan reorganises ownership structure

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2015  |  NEWS
... director. "We want to focus our efforts on ensuring we have inclusive and sustainable capital markets," Wilson told The Sustainability Report. "We're providing more niche ESG integration and advisory services.... We want to be doing things that others ...

Early stages for ESG-factor investing: Northern Trust

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2015  |  NEWS
... investment officer for Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific at Northern Trust Asset Management, met with The Sustainability Report while in Australia recently. Northern Trust is highlighting the firm's ability to tailor equities products ...

GRI defines four strategic goals to expand scope

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2015  |  NEWS
... Reporting Initiative (GRI) has developed four strategic priorities to expand its scope and "catalyse the next era of sustainability reporting" over the next five years. GRI has released an updated Global Reporting Initiative with four goals to further ...

Experts warn of trustees' climate change litigation risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2015  |  NEWS
... duties regarding climate change. Sarah Barker, special counsel, Minter Ellison Lawyers Lawyers who spoke with The Sustainability Report say there is no immediate threat of litigation against superannuation trustees, but those funds that are not demonstrating ...

ANZ to partner with AWA in SE Asia program

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2015  |  NEWS
... from their pipes, and unregulated use of water. That's a major impact environmentally, economically and from a sustainability point of view as well. We can take the work that Australia has done in plugging those unregulated uses of water, which we can ...

Expert panel discusses CSR practices in action

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2015  |  NEWS
... (ACCSR)'s annual CSR review. Andrew MacLeod, managing director, Good Super, Ian Wood, vice president communities and sustainability, BHP Billiton, Peter Bowtell, principal, Arup, and Dr Suzanne Young, head of the Department of Management and Marketing ...