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Understanding Impact Investment

MATTHEW TOMINC  |  FRIDAY, 6 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... score strongly on environmental, social and governance metrics. This approach might see an investor buying the shares of a mining company that scores well com-pared to its peers in carbon emissions, employee safety metrics, or governance measures. What ...

Cost of no climate action to hit Australian economy: Report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 5 NOV 2020  |  NEWS
... to Deloitte Access Economics. Australia's agriculture, construction, manufacturing, tourism related industries and mining sectors are exposed to climate change and an unruly economic transition to a low-carbon world, as well as the risks of COVID ...

Industry fund lifts game on SRI options

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
... risks of climate change, including divesting from businesses that derived more than 10% of their revenue from thermal coal mining, representing $40 million of its equity portfolio. The cash gained from divesting from thermal coal producers will be redeployed ...

Head of sustainability salaries revealed

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... Wales than Victoria - on average, $323,592 in NSW and $274,941 in Victoria. The top salary packages are for those working mining and metals, at an average remuneration of $42.,532, with financials on average paying $373,778, real estate paying $307,057 ...

Opinion: Australian super funds could benefit from US ESG policy move

RAEWYN WILLIAMS  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... between credit ratings by Moody's and S&P. In Australia, the recent Juukan Gorge controversy added fuel to this concern: the mining company Rio Tinto that blew up a 46,000-year-old sacred indigenous site had been voted top mining company in corporate ...

Investors welcome Rio resignations

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... around how companies manage risks associated with Indigenous heritage protection issues and has written to 14 Australian mining and energy companies. At that time, HESTA informed the companies it is embarking on a direct engagement program on this issue. ...

AMMA names Lisa Ali to Board of Directors

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... Ali to its Board of Directors. Ali has broad professional experience including international stints, and joined Newcrest Mining in February 2020 following a number of senior leadership roles in the oil and gas, petrochemical and manufacturing sectors. ...

HESTA issues Statement on Working with Indigenous Communities

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
HESTA will directly engage with 14 mining and energy companies on working with Indigenous communities, with a focus on understanding how companies manage risks associated with Indigenous heritage protection. In the wake of the destruction of the Juukan ...

ASX-listed mining, gas and oil companies lack tax transparency: PWYP

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
ASX-listed mining, gas and oil companies are "falling behind key transparency measures" on disclosing payments to governments in countries in which they operate, according to new research from Publish What You Pay (PWYP) Australia. Robyn Parkin, sustainability ...

Research project to study sustainable forestry in East Arnhem

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... of activities," said Jordy Bowman CEO of DEAL. " Gumatj Corporation has already been harvesting timber from a Rio Tinto mining site, and they are looking at how we could expand out to other available markets and other regions. There has been interest ...