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First State Super targets 30% emissions reduction in equities portfolio

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2020  |  NEWS
... least 30% by 2023. The threshold for divestment is companies that derive more than 10% of their revenue from thermal coal mining. The newly announced Climate Change Portfolio Transition Plan builds on the fund's 2015 climate change adaption plan, and ...

HESTA to move to net zero carbon emissions in portfolio by 2050

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... emissions reduction targets on an annual basis. HESTA was the first major Australian super fund to place a thermal coal mining restriction across all investment options and recently extended this restriction to further eliminate the financing of potentially ...

Australian companies below global peers on reporting, targets: Refinitiv

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2020  |  NEWS
... companies lagged on disclosing these targets, Coombs said. Further, Australia's company set was tilted towards sectors such as mining and resources, which have greater exposure to carbon emissions than other sectors, Coombs added. "What's striking is ...

Poor disclosure around labour hire workforce in listed companies: ACCR

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2020  |  NEWS
More than 40 percent of ASX100 listed companies in the mining, construction, and commercial cleaning sectors have made no material disclosure about their labour hire and/or contracting workforce in annual reporting documents, according to research from ...

AXA IM develops carbon footpath strategy based on forward climate action

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... regulation or changes in technology." "Carbon emissions are heavily skewed into the utilities, energy, industrials, and mining sectors," McDonald said. "If we really want to attack the biggest problem areas in the economy, we can start by looking critically ...

Comment: hindsight is 2020

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2020  |  NEWS
... may cause a slowdown in the economy and even a recession. This could lead to an increase in unemployment. Furthermore, mining and the production of meat are important contributors to society. Steel is produced in a furnace by heating iron ore and coal. ...

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

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 DEC 2019  |  NEWS
... all about the concept of ESG," he said. "We list companies with the right operating model. For example, we will look at mining and resources companies. Being miners doesn't preclude them from being listed. But we won't list companies with tailings in ...

CEFC, ARENA commit up to $58m for Hornsdale Power Reserve

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  THURSDAY, 21 NOV 2019  |  NEWS
... fast ramping market capacity is designed to reduce spot price volatility, noted South Australian Minister for Energy and Mining Dan van Holst Pellekaan. "The Hornsdale Power Reserve will continue to break new ground in providing and proving up the benefits ...

Market Forces lodges shareholder resolutions with Westpac, NAB, ANZ

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 11 OCT 2019  |  NEWS
... to the fossil fuel sector in line w/ the goals of the Paris Agreement." Market Forces noted that ANZ's exposure to coal mining increased by 27% to $1.4 billion in 2018 and a further 7% to $1.5 billion in the first half of 2019. NAB's reported net exposure ...

Vanessa Zimmerman launches Pillar Two human rights consultancy

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUN 2019  |  NEWS
... continue to provide advisory services to Rio Tinto, Zimmerman noted, but has also worked with agriculture, infrastructure and mining companies. "The UN Guiding Principles give important guidance," Zimmerman said. "Governments have a legal duty to protect ...