Search Results

Showing 1801 - 1810 of 2235 results for "Executive"

NCD launches Soft Commodities Forest-risk Assessment Tool

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2015  |  NEWS
... deforestation is high on the twenty-first century policy agenda," said Achim Steiner, UN under-secretary-general and UNEP executive director. "The continuing loss of the world's tropical rainforests represents a significant threat to the security of ...

ACCR to lodge carbon disclosure resolutions for AGL AGM

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2015  |  NEWS
... the resolutions on 29 July, and has already met the 100-shareholder threshold for lodgement, said Caroline Le Couteur, executive director at ACCR. The resolutions also ask for disclosures around why the greenhouse gas emissions intensity of the company ...

Super boards can add value with ESG focus: BNP Paribas

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2015  |  NEWS
Superannuation boards can add value by reflecting the demographics of membership at large, and by focusing on environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues, according to a survey of the superannuation industry. BNP Paribas Securities Services and ...

Investors consider corporate pay links to climate change goals

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2015  |  NEWS
... shareholders continue to engage with listed mining companies over risks like climate change and stranded assets, linking executive remuneration to achievements such as reserve replacement is one tool that is coming into consideration. Thus far, there ...

ACSI calls for better ASX disclosure of mental health and safety

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2015  |  NEWS
... these longer-term measures of business success by company boards to their owners," said Louise Davidson, ACSI chief executive. "ACSI looks forward to a significant improvement in future years' reporting, as the newly-revised ASX Guidelines formally come ...

Queensland commits $3m to social benefit bond pilot

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2015  |  NEWS
... plans to commence a Request for Proposals process by early 2016. "They're very sensible steps," said Ian Learmonth, executive director of impact investing at Social Ventures Australia (SVA). "They're recognising that it's important that NGOs, those service ...

Climate Bonds Initiative gain insurance body partner

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2015  |  NEWS
... sustainable development imperative." The Climate Bonds Initiative is "thrilled" to work with PSI, said Sean Kidney, executive chair of the Climate Bonds Initiative. "Insurers are the institutions we trust to make a bridge between the long and short-term ...

ACSI ups ante on zero-women boards

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2015  |  NEWS
... past a zero-women-on boards position, and we've had reasonably positive response," said Louise Davidson, ACSI chief executive. "We only sent the letters out at the end of last week, but our aim is to meet with them, to try and understand the concrete ...

Emma Herd appointed IGCC CEO

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2015  |  NEWS
The Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC) has hired Emma Herd as the new chief executive officer. Emma Herd, CEO, IGCC Herd formally begins her new role on 10 August, and comes to the IGCC from Westpac, where she was head of sustainability. "Emma ...

Community 21 closes share offering, raises nearly $750,000

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2015  |  NEWS
... raised almost AU$750,000 and issuing shares to 18 new not for profit (NFP) shareholders. Peter Quarmby, Community 21 executive director Community 21 is the financial services company that jointly owns Community Sector Banking with Bendigo and Adelaide ...