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Looking ahead to sustainability trends in 2015

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2015  |  NEWS
... more interest, again, from a relatively low baseline. This has been driven by a combination of many factors and recent events like Rana Plaza, but also the UN Global Compact and its intentions. They released a paper last year about it, examining how ...

Paula Benson appointed NAB GM corporate affairs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2014  |  NEWS
... and stakeholder relations, external and internal communications, community engagement, community partnerships, corporate events, brand and reputation management. She also previously worked as a director of the Port of Melbourne Corporation. See Also ...

Local Government Super enhances carbon-related screens

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2014  |  NEWS
... global points in the shift from a high carbon to a lower carbon economy. "[These changes] were driven by an accumulation of events and a growing awareness that gov'ts will soon start to act on climate change mitigation as well as our analysis of who ...

Mercer to analyse climate change portfolio risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... and activist lobbying on topics like fossil fuels and stranded assets or in relation to real assets and severe weather events. This requires institutional investors to be more informed about climate risk and to be forewarned." Several institutional investors ...

KPMG proposes framework to analyse externalities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2014  |  NEWS
... health," Woo said. "One example of long term internalisation is in climate risk e.g., increasingly severe extreme weather events. Organisations are starting to consider the impact of future climate scenarios on business resilience. Some are considering ...

UCA Funds Management adds Transfield Services to exclusions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 1 AUG 2014  |  NEWS
... "Countering these claims is human rights advocate Ben Pynt who gave evidence before an upper house committee examining the events. Ben stated that categorically to his knowledge that there are people involved in the attacks still working at the centre ...

Natural Carbon announces Cape York CFI project

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2014  |  NEWS
... amount of greenhouse gasses released by the smaller mosaic burning patterns and the amount released during large wildfire events can be expressed as carbon credits and traded under the current carbon pricing mechanism. Natural Carbon, Pormpuraaw Aboriginal ...

CDSB tackles reporting of carbon asset stranding risks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 APR 2014  |  NEWS
... paradigm is one where companies report on things that they know at the end of the reporting period - known risks based on past events," Guthrie said. "What we're looking for here is to report on possible risks arising from future events which are in ...

Mercer: ESG as source of innovation in shifting economy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2014  |  NEWS
... drivers from an economic perspective and assessing how themes such as changing regulatory requirements, extreme weather events, income inequality create investment risk and opportunity and how can investors capture that growth opportunity." At a global ...

CDSB expands natural capital in new reporting framework

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 FEB 2014  |  NEWS
... recognising for various reasons that it's not fit for purpose. Accounting rules focus on disclosure of known risks based on past events. The whole nature of the thoughts we're looking at is that they're known risks, but not in a quantifiable sense and ...