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RobecoSAM hires ACCSR for engagement over assessment

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 19 FEB 2016  |  NEWS
... Group and Stockland as industry group leaders in their review, while BHP Billiton was added to the sustainability index. Inclusion in the DJSI increases companies' visibility for global sustainability investment portfolios and provides companies with ...

Mercer hires Yolanda Beattie as practice leader

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2016  |  NEWS
Mercer has hired Yolanda Beattie as diversity and inclusion practice leader. Yolanda Beattie, diversity and inclusion practice leader, Mercer Beattie comes to Mercer from the Australian government's Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA), where she ...

Six Australian companies get gold in RobecoSAM yearbook

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JAN 2016  |  NEWS
... 2015 and includes the best 15% per industry, assessing them as gold, silver or bronze medals. "We see competition for inclusion in the RobecoSAM Sustainability Yearbook steadily growing every year, so I congratulate all the companies that made it into ...

ARENA allocates funds for biomass research

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JAN 2016  |  NEWS
... project, RIRDC will work with states and territories to collect data on location, volumes and availalbi.lity of biomass for inclusion in the ARENA-supported Australian Renewable Energy Mapping Infrastructure (AREMI) platform. AREMI contains ARENA project ...

Workplace diversity a driver of innovation: DCA

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JAN 2016  |  NEWS
Workplace diversity and inclusion are drivers of innovation, according to Diversity Council Australia (DCA). Lisa Annese, CEO, Diversity Council Australia Picking up on the release of the government's National Innovation and Science Agenda, DCA pressed ...

Paris Agreement: implications for Australia

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2015  |  NEWS
... markets, de Wit noted during a post-COP21 debriefing in Melbourne. "A big issue for us and for the business sector was the inclusion of carbon markets, or the ability to have ultimately a global carbon market," she said. "You may be aware that there ...

ACCSR: Companies lack strategies to manage human rights risks

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2015  |  NEWS
... operational control, such as a high importance on occupational health and safety, non-discrimination and diversity and inclusion. Many businesses have aspiration and commitment to address human rights impacts down the supply chains, many businesses reported ...

AXA IM to launch second impact investing fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2015  |  NEWS
... environmental impact connected to social outcomes." The first fund focused on a mix of themes investing in healthcare, financial inclusion and education, while the second fund will place environmental solutions connected to social outcomes as the key ...

CDP Names Climate A List in 2015 report

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 6 NOV 2015  |  NEWS
... engages with specific, major emitters to demonstrate their strategic carbon management by attaining and maintaining inclusion in the CDP Climate A List. Investors have also joined the Montreal Carbon Pledge, in which they pledge to measure and report ...

Citi joins Natural Capital Declaration

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2015  |  NEWS
... van Ast, programme manager, Natural Capital Declaration. "We look forward to working with Citi to help catalyse the inclusion of science and data on natural resource constraints and environmental pressures into lending and investment decisions." CD is ...