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PRI active on climate change, tax avoidance

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2015  |  NEWS
... are tax avoidance and the potential global agreements global agreements on climate change at the Paris Climate Change Conference (COP 21), which starts on 30 November. "We have a tax working group," Reynolds told The Sustainability Report. "What we've ...

FTSE Russell launches All-World ex Coal indexes

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2015  |  NEWS
... report and accounts. "Later this year, senior politicians and businesspeople will attend the 2015 UN Climate Change Conference in Paris to discuss what is widely seen as one of the most important investment issues of our generation," said Kevin Bourne ...

PRI outlines portfolio carbon reduction strategies

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2015  |  NEWS
... paper discusses the possibility of governments reaching global agreements on climate change at the Paris Climate Change Conference (COP 21), which starts on 30 November, but stresses that failure to reach an agreement does not abrogate asset owners' ...

Experts warn of trustees' climate change litigation risk

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2015  |  NEWS
... influenced by the possibility of a global agreement to cap global warming and cut global emissions at the UN Climate Change Conference in Paris in December, and also because activists are threatening legal challenges to those trustees that are perceived ...

VicSuper exploring developing climate change fund option

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2015  |  NEWS
... signatory of the Montreal Carbon Pledge. The Montreal Carbon Pledge was announced in September at the PRI's annual conference. Pledge signatories are committing to measuring and publicly disclosing the carbon footprint of their investment portfolios ...

IGCC, peers launch Investor Platform for Climate Actions

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2015  |  NEWS
... Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. "Ahead of the UN climate change conference in Paris, cities, regions, companies and investors must continue to increase their active participation in the global ...

CDP, We Mean Business partner for Road to Paris

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2015  |  NEWS
... push a set of global initiatives in Australia for corporate action on climate change ahead of the UN Climate Change Conference in December. The three groups will work to encourage companies to adopt one or more of six parts of the Road to Paris climate ...

Sustainable Stock Exchanges Initiative issues communication

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2015  |  NEWS
... The Nigerian Stock Exchange, The Stock Exchange of Thailand and Warsaw Stock Exchange. The SSE is convened by the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), the UN Global Compact, the UN Environment Program's Finance Initiative (UNEP FI), and P ...

CEFC looks to increase investment in bioenergy projects

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2014  |  NEWS
... at the CEFC stand at 10% or AU$100 million of the overall portfolio, Dow said in a speech at the Bioenergy Australia Conference 2014. The CEFC is focusing on "introducing internationally commercially proven technologies to the Australian market," the ...

Montreal Carbon Pledge a building block: Cbus' Atkin

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2014  |  NEWS
... Council, the PRI's chief governance body. The Montreal Carbon Pledge was announced in September at the PRI's annual conference. Pledge signatories are committing to measuring and publicly disclosing the carbon footprint of their investment portfolios ...

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Santos receives takeover offer from Abu Dhabi-led consortium

ANDREW MCKEAN
Santos has received a non-binding $8.89 per share cash offer from the XRG Consortium, led by XRG P.J.S.C., a subsidiary of Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ANDOC), alongside Abu Dhabi's sovereign wealth fund ADQ and US private equity firm Carlyle.

What do the best-functioning boards look like?

KARREN VERGARA
The best-functioning boards are future thinkers, understand their ESG responsibilities and are able to show their "battle scars," according to two governance experts.

Funding lifts for climate, health, people startups

KARREN VERGARA
While funding for impact startups has broadly declined, those operating in climate, health and people has seen funding levels improve compared to three years ago, according to the Impact Startups Benchmark Report 2025.

Mind the gap: Investors' role in balancing fairness and competitiveness in executive pay

ALEXANDRE PROST
Investors have a significant role to play in helping to move the dial on executive remuneration, aiming to increase fairness and reduce inequality.

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