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Regulator appoints first head of climate risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2020  |  NEWS
... closer attention," and said that APRA-regulated entities should conduct stress testing for "organisational and systemic resilience in the face of adverse shocks" from climate risk. In February 2020, APRA released a letter to all APRA-regulated entities ...

Brambles reports progress on 2020 sustainability goals

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2020  |  NEWS
... company Brambles has identified key climate-related themes in its annual reporting - a low-carbon advantage, network resilience, and raw material supply security and continuity. Brambles recently announced underlying profit growth of US$795 million for ...

Sustainability, fair trade organisations call for equitable COVID-19 recovery

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... net-zero emissions by 2050; 3. Multilateral and regional partnerships to drive economic recovery, build environmental resilience and enhance regional outcomes; 4. Investment in fair, transparent and more inclusive trade; and 5. Reduced structural inequalities ...

Australia "woefully unprepared": Australian Climate Roundtable

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... the changes we can't avoid." The group has made a series of recommendations to contribute to building national resilience to climate change. They recommend that coordination of Australia's response to climate change (both mitigation and resilience) ...

Australian business environment amongst world's most resilient: FM Global

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
Australia's business environment is "amongst the world's most resilient", particularly around supply chain resilience, but is exposed to a number of risks, including cyber risk, oil intensity and corporate governance, according to commercial insurer ...

Capacity, resilience and interdependency key engagement topics: Regnan

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2020  |  NEWS
... "global conversation on inequality highlighted by the Black Lives Matter movement" have raised the issues of capacity, resilience and interdependency to the forefront of engagements with companies, according to governance research and engagement firm ...

Bond investor sues Australian government

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... economic consequences of climate change. "I think if climate change is disclosed as a financial risk it will improve the resilience of the Australian economy and protect investors. We all need to understand the risks we're taking," she said. O'Donnell ...

Aurecon directors appointed to FIDIC Sustainable Development Committee

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... provide a meaningful forum for consulting engineers to share ideas on how they can enable mitigation, adaptation and resilience to climate change and develop and maintain buildings and infrastructure assets that are truly sustainable in the broadest ...

Sefa to increase financing to social enterprises and build resilience

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... mechanism, but we've also been doing work about building back better," Ebeling said. "We effectively want to build long term resilience within organisations, especially from an organisational leadership perspective." Under the scheme, the government ...

COVID-19 risks and impacts disclosure "unprecedented challenge": AICD

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... financial report rather than in the directors' report. "There are questions out there such as, how do you test the resilience, how do you justify the consideration that you are a going concerns," Petschler said. "You see in the guide that we're talking ...