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How the law can drive impact through investment: B Lab

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 DEC 2019  |  NEWS
... Economic Forum launched a new Davos Manifesto, a set of ethical principles to guide companies in the age of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. These moves signal that the biggest and most influential businesses in the world have the intention to operate ...

GRI announces new members to Board of Directors for 2020

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 NOV 2019  |  NEWS
... president and chief executive officer, JG Summit Holdings (Philippines - business enterprise), and Jyrki Raina, global industrial relations expert (Finland - labor organizations). "GRI provides international leadership through our mission to develop ...

Incorporating climate risk into investing, finance, and insurance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 NOV 2019  |  NEWS
... advantage? A: Every major economic transformation creates both risks and opportunities for businesses (examples include the industrial revolution and the advent of the internet). Being proactive is critical, particularly given the speed at which changes ...

Sustainable Melbourne Fund receives new loan facility, new name

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2019  |  NEWS
... Australia. The Sustainable Australia Fund offers an innovative financing model that allows commercial, office, and industrial buildings to retrofit projects for energy sustainability. Environmental Upgrade Agreements (EUAs) are agreements between a building ...

Corporate culture a factor in stock selection: WCM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2019  |  NEWS
... are readily available like turnover in a company, like safety records at a company, particularly if it's a materials/industrial firm, then digging in beyond that, to make sure there's a common thread aligning the people in an organisation from the top ...

Australian businesses seek positive social impact: Deloitte

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2019  |  NEWS
... officer, Deloitte Australia Deloitte has released its second annual global Readiness Report, Leadership in the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Faces of Progress. The report focuses on the ways in which business leaders are "adapting and preparing for the ...

Lawsuit against ExxonMobil heightens Australian directors climate risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2018  |  NEWS
... managing climate risk. The IPCC report urgently advises governments and actors to limit global warming to 1.5oC above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways, and warns that there is about a decade in which the response ...

Australia, New Zealand real estate tops GRESB benchmark

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2018  |  NEWS
... investment portfolios, or 13% of participants. 2018 GRESB Sector Leaders from Australia and NZ Frasers Logistics & Industrial Trust, Industrial - Listed Lendlease One International Towers Sydney Trust, Lendlease, Developer - Non-listed Stockland, Diversified ...

ACCR, CAER study gender pay gap at ASX100 companies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2018  |  NEWS
... Australian women back. Further, inaction on pay equity cannot be excused by reliance on salaries being set by awards or industrial agreements." The report was supported by Future Super, and Future Super Managing Director Kirstin Hunter noted that supporting ...

CEFC provides $56 million finance to Numurkah Solar Farm

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2018  |  NEWS
... Laverton steelworks. SIMEC ZEN Energy will use the energy to support firm retail supply contracts to commercial and industrial customers in Victoria, including the Laverton steelworks. The Victorian Government has contracted a further 30% of Numurkah's ...