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CDSB, TCFD launch knowledge hub for organisational implementation

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2018  |  NEWS
... TCFD Knowledge Hub is live with over 300 resources submitted by 32 contributors - 80 cover governance, 236 strategy, 152 risk management and 125 metrics & targets with many resources covering more than one topic specifically. Contributors range from ...

Future of mobility requires key action by business, policy makers: SBA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... the next climate change issue - one of the unforeseen, new circumstances that cause challenge, but where identified as a risk can be strategically addressed to create customer loyalty, and drive down cost in the supply chain," Petersen said. "The future ...

Regnan research finds correlation between company performance, conduct culture

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... this is the ethics around it and these are the community expectations.... As directors, you need to know the extent of the risk and the extent of your risk on your reputation. Then you say, if I behave unethically and I drive a culture that does not ...

Ausbil outlines 2017 engagement activities in annual report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... trade-off between financial returns and better labour rights," Carlsson-Sweeny said. "We look at three aspects - earnings risk, earnings sustainability, and management quality. I think a lot of labour rights issues come back to earnings sustainability ...

Improved disclosure in fashion supply chain: Baptist World Aid Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2018  |  NEWS
Fashion retailers around the world continue to improve their disclosure and management of human rights risks in their supply chain, but "transparency remains a challenge in the industry," according to Baptist World Aid Australia. Baptist World Aid Australia ...

ESG analysis important to emerging market credit: Insight Investment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... Adam Kibble, product specialist at Insight Investment, said that the fund manager calls ESG one of five "landmine" risks - risk that lie outside a balance sheet that could explode a company's investment return in certain cases. "These are risks that ...

Rising importance of sustainability in the commercial real estate industry

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... they are increasingly also factoring in environmental, social and governance (ESG) disclosures as a critical way to measure risk and the drivers of a company's financial performance. The drivers The rise in importance of ESG disclosures is due to a number ...

Cement companies need to "more than double" emissions reductions: CDP

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2018  |  NEWS
The world's largest cement companies need to more than double their emissions reductions or risk missing the two degree target of the Paris Agreement, according to new CDP analysis. (Image courtesy CDP) CDP has published Building Pressure, and found ...

Examining the corporate governance implications of share buybacks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... reinvestment in the business, brownfields or greenfields M&A, etc. As you run along those actions, you're running up the risk curve, so you have to ask the questions, what the likely results from those issues are, you want boards to be really challenging ...

Cbus Super makes first direct infrastructure investment into renewable energy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2018  |  NEWS
... back into the real economy, which has the double dividend, particularly in the built environment of where it stacks up on a risk adjusted basis, creates employment, and that's something that's particularly attractive as the fund representing building ...