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Analysis: climate change, Australia and the fierce urgency of now

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
... Excluding investments in fossil fuel shows more than double as many searches as the next highest searched exclusion of human rights, and these searches are evenly spread across super, investments and banking products, O'Connor noted. O'Connor ...

Human rights, ethical sourcing driving ESG considerations in Asia: Ausbil

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2020  |  NEWS
Stronger regulation and regulatory enforcement in Asian countries, ranging from plastic use and waste to human rights and labour, expose Australian companies to evolving risks and opportunities across environmental and social metrics, according to Ausbil ...

Sydney Stock Exchange announces new CEO, first listings, ESG focus

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 DEC 2019  |  NEWS
... try and take too strong a hand with it, but what we look to take a broad view of climate change [considerations], human rights, whether they have strong corporate governance. With regards to environmental and social issues, we don't want anything that's ...

ASFI identifies six critical challenges for sustainable finance roadmap

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2019  |  NEWS
... what's missing, b/c our remit is broader. It's the SDGs, it's heavily consumer focused, it's about wellbeing and human rights concerns, so there's a process where we've mapped all the recommendations form all the other roadmaps and seen where they best ...

Sexual harassment a potential investment, financial risk in supply chain

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 NOV 2019  |  NEWS
With material human rights issues rising on the agenda for companies and their investors, non-governmental organisations are flagging sexual harassment in garment factories as a source of risk, both in terms of productivity losses and reputational risks ...

Sustainalytics rates unmanaged ESG risk in ASX200

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2019  |  NEWS
... said. "We are able to pick up more of those occurrences over time...But I think it also reflects that awareness on human rights issues is growing and that modern slavery is a top of mind concern for many people." Firms that are relatively well positioned ...

Market Forces lodges shareholder resolutions with Westpac, NAB, ANZ

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 OCT 2019  |  NEWS
... co-founders and co-CEOs of software company Atlassian. ACCR has also filed a worker exploitation resolution with Coles, a human rights solution with Qantas Airways, and climate-related resolutions with Origin.

Emerging markets bring exposure to unmanaged ESG risk: Sustainalytics

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2019  |  NEWS
... that work towards mitigating different types of ESG risk. For example, if you're working towards, say, mitigating human rights risk, you could look at the industries and companies that are facing high levels of human rights risks and underweight them ...

Amundi launches Amundi Funds Multi-Asset Sustainable Future

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2019  |  NEWS
... pre-defined criteria - companies in defense, tobacco, alcohol, gambling, nuclear, pornography, any companies violating human rights, labour rights, or using child labour ; general business malpractice and controversial environmental practice. Amundi ...

Q&A with Pablo Berrutti on launch of Altiorem

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 AUG 2019  |  NEWS
... implementation of sustainable finance. Research and tools will come from NGOs like Carbon Tracker and the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre, to multi-lateral organisation like the OECD, World Economic Forum and the World Bank to commercial organisations ...