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ACCSR: Companies lack strategies to manage human rights risks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2015  |  NEWS
... that they have a responsibility to do the right thing, and that violating human rights norms and standards carries a growing risk. "Australian business is waking up to the importance of human rights protections within supply chains," said Leeora Black ...

South Australia passes building upgrade finance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2015  |  NEWS
The government of South Australia has passed legislation to establish environmental building upgrade finance allowing commercial property owners to access finance to retrofit buildings to improve water, waste and energy efficiency. Scott Bocskay, CEO ...

Governance Institute appoint Simon Pordage president

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2015  |  NEWS
... productivity and on-strategy achievement. "That will involve encouraging all organisations to 'join the dots' on their culture, risk management, strategy-setting and communication frameworks and to cascade them effectively, so that everyone in the organisation ...

Future Super goes carbon neutral

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2015  |  NEWS
... and purchased offset credits with South Pole Group. "There's a business case for being fossil fuel free, and a case about risk and the management of stranded asset risk," said Simon Sheikh, managing director of Future Super. Future Super is funding the ...

Mercer speaks on managing future risks, climate change

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2015  |  NEWS
... risks, and the physical and political and the economic implications of them." These megatrends require thinking about future risk, which is not always captured well by classical economics and modern portfolio metrics, which are reliant on using historical ...

Mining companies not adequately managing carbon risk: CDP

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2015  |  NEWS
... of the large miners - nine of 11 - oppose new climate regulation, and CDP calculates that US$10 billion in earnings is at risk across the 11 companies if a carbon price of US$50 per tonne is introduced. "As the world prepares for a binding climate deal ...

RIAA calls for actions to create responsible financial markets

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2015  |  NEWS
... Nordics, particular Sweden, there is leadership coming from AP4 or AP3. You don't have a real push by the regulator or other ESG risk, but then you have leadership coming from AP4." During a panel discussion following the announcement of the white paper ...

NZ Super publishes white paper on ESG beliefs

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2015  |  NEWS
... and governance (ESG) factors, it is allocating its capital "towards more attractive areas and better manag[ing] long term risk." Anne-Maree O'Connor, head of responsible investment, NZ Super The NZ$29.8 billion NZ Super this week published Why We Believe ...

The price of climate change to impact portfolios: BlackRock

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2015  |  NEWS
Responding to climate change is not only a global policy initiative, and a risk factor, but companies' climate change data and responses can be used as a mark of operational and management quality, according to research from BlackRock. Dr Joanna Nash ...

GRI links connections between G4, UN Guiding Principles

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 NOV 2015  |  NEWS
The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) has published a linkage document that demonstrates the connections between the GRI G4 Reporting Guidelines and the concepts of the United Nations Guiding Principle on Business and Human Rights. GRI notes that there ...